Hmm but it doesn’t force ads down your throat so can you really say it is part of Windows?

Imagine a highschool level biology textbook that almost exclusively uses GTA San Andreas memes and metaphors to explain biological concepts.

If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.

It takes emotional labor to separate people from the situations/context you interact with them in. Part of work culture should be making sure that people aren’t too stressed and tired to do this labor by unrealistic work demands and inhumane treatment.

From what I understand about nursing, at least in my country, this is systematically an issue of pushing people too hard so I would say give yourself slack for not being perfectly aloof.

Yeah and like that is cool, all the smartest most hardworking people involved with ActivityPub can laugh in my face saying these are nonsense concerns and I will continue to be realistic about human beings, greed and money.

Of course the ActivityPub developers see it as a friendly relationship, this is what they are experts about why would corporations burn that bridge before they consolidate control?

There does not have to be a “winning” protocol.

Actually, from the perspective of investors looking to make a profit off of Bluesky there does?

The ActivityPub people are naive as heck if they think this is an innocent situation, a LOT of money is at stake. Words about this just being a positive relationship are meaningless in reassurance.

Sorry but even after doing that it is still clear we need more tariffs on the penguins whether we assume they are cylinders or not.

No, this is from my research notes I wrote myself.

Easy. Just imagine only the spots part.

brachiopods in the background like

Congrats on switching!

It was actually the rise of spotify and enclosure of the music listening commons that killed my desire to record and produce music.

AI feels like the boring next step from the Spotify CEO saying musicians shouldn’t expect to be able to make a living making and recording music. It is all part of the same movement to train people to see creativity done by humans as inherently valueless and amateur so that profitable simulcrums of human creativity can take center stage that parasitically feed on unpaid artistic human labor. I don’t hate music streaming services, I hate the axiomatic assumption in my society that progress can only ever be a process of increasing austerity for artists in order to fund increasing profit for the ownership class that steals the labor of artists.

Art is a product of a corporation in the context of a market to be evaluated by how well it attracts attention, entirely human made art is just a silly thing you occasionally do on the side as a gesture to someone you know like a handwritten note that is novel and fun precisely because it is a vanishingly rare thing. This is the suffocating environment being forced on human artists.

Bluesky theoretically has the capacity to be decentralized. I am sure people will show up in this comment thread and provide a whole lot of technical specifications about mostly proof of concept features that demonstrate that Bluesky is in some sense technically decentralized. Maybe not anymore? That seems a bit less common these days it seems.

To all of those responses theoretical or prophesized lol I ask in turn -why then has the CEO of Bluesky not ruled out serving ads to users as a way of monetizing the currently unprofitable nascient social network?

This isn’t a conversation about details no matter how much people will try to steer it there with an air of expert authority. This is a conversation about values and how we embue them in the structures of our communities.

Bluesky is a for-profit business with investors who will seek a return on their investment. Until proven otherwise we must assume they will monetize similarly to the way every other social media company has so far. The words that people who work for Bluesky are less important than this basic economic reality.

If you listen to any of this long rant, please ask yourself this question. Why are massive social media companies, with so much cash on hand they might as well be small countries, only putting serious effort into creating decentralized social media technology and building out the infrastructure NOW after the path forward was already blazed? Where were they when the fediverse was still just mostly a cute idea without practical infrastructure built out and standards agreed to?

When talking about whether a specific corporate social media platform is decentralized or not you cannot ignore this context, these foundations had already been laid and fairly well built up by a small rag tag team of developers working almost entirely as volunteers funded on a yearly budget so small it wouldn’t cover a single dinner check for the executives of Meta.

An aside… also consider the implications of the massive amount of computation that the architecture of Bluesky is set up to require for moderation of channels with the claims they are making about needing channels to processed by servers to be fed back to nodes in turn. Consider the difference in power/leverage between small nodes and massive communities in a situation where moderation is done by humans doing moderation (with automated screening tools to help maybe, but ultimately human) vs when moderation is done by applying a prohibitively expensive amount of computing power to the raw firehose of conversation. The difference is who gets to moderate public spaces and who doesn’t.

Reddit is a for profit website owned by rightwing idiots pretending to be a community space rather than a volunteer effort to help rich reddit chuds train their AI crap… so the problem isn’t inherently about the popularity here.

Regardless though, I want more people here based on the principle that when good things happen to me it is better if they happen to others and I should endeavor to destroy any barrier to seeing a fluid relationship between my wellbeing and the wellbeing of those around me.

Bluesky is a for profit venture with a marketing budget it uses to sell the idea the platform is decentralized.

Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no realistic business plan proposed for how to lucratively monetize a truly decentralized network. Bluesky MUST turn a profit, this isn’t an inconvenient detail, it is a crisis the company is on the clock to solve like any heavily speculative venture capital funded startup is.

The only way this works is if actual meaningful decentralization is always “on the horizon” for Bluesky as something the for profit company can periodically point to and say “look how close we are!” while never taking meaningful steps closer.

Bluesky silicon valley techbros will point to their cool blogpost about how they set up a hobbyist project on Bluesky outside of the central network and it will remain a pipedream or like the end of a rainbow for 99.9% of us, an impossible promise that flies away as fast away as we chase it.

Idk, I don’t think most scifi pushes the envelope of what we can imagine, rather it provides a convenient escape to galaxies less incomprehensible than the bewilderment of earth where the author can make a point about spacewar and unstoppable mindless empires.

shrugs

Scifi (like any other genre) needs to continually reaffirm its association with creativity, not assume because paper thin character types are fighting spacewars for feudal empires and space corporations that it counts as pushing the envelope of our imaginations.

/end side rant

as in Nibbles Woodaway?

Just another example of entomologists withholding crucial information about the bug kingdom from us, who do they work for anyways? The humans or the bugs?

What if there are EVEN bigger bugs out there entomologists just conveniently haven’t told us about yet…?

Think TREEbug not Stickbug.

The end is near and it is segmented into three main body sections!!

I think the difference between cats and dogs is mainly tens of thousands of additional years of co-operative evolution. Cats are amazing but dogs you can almost assume can understand your emotions and care, that comes from the absurd length of time dogs and humans have been friends, it is a relationship that far predates other domestication by an immense length of time.

But, they’ll have to make something that more people like than the AI.

No, it does not have to be better than the AI image to be preferable.