PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

The problem is your unrealistic expectations by how you’re making it sound like just making an instance means automatic success of a community by denying the reality of just how active the general community as a whole is.

Sounds like you need to either find or make the community you want to see. Which in general, you can do (but some instances don’t let you make new communities I think), although it’s important to make the community on an instance whose policies are amenable to you.

And then if your community is worth going to, people will come.

The problem with ‘making your own instance’ is, how little of active people there are to sustain such instances.

You literally only need one person to make an instance: you.

You make it sound like we’re flourishing with millions of active users when we’re realistically seeing only five digit thousands and that’s being generous.

And that’s a problem? Personally, I want to see the Fediverse grow sustainably.

It’s not that simple.

No it actually is that simple to make an instance just for yourself. Actually, the challenge comes about when you grow, because then you have to moderate other users.

Power-Tripping Mods, Gaslighting Users, Immature Moderators, 100 Rules to follow but contradicts itself

The point of the Fediverse is not that we individually have better characters than the people on Reddit. The point is that if you don’t like what an instance is doing, you can join an instance you do like, or make your own.

Oof, hope it works out for them 😣

This is the primary reason the us military budget should go from 1.5 trillion to 0.5 trillion.

KDE Plasma because I’m basic and I wanna get stuff done 👍

We really should be slowing down and looking at the effects of AI. It has too much potential to fuck everything up to not think about it a bit, especially if recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.

IMO, the notion that AI systems are intelligent in any meaningful capacity is venture capitalist marketing. AI systems are especially capable of pooping out convincing bullshit. Otherwise, these systems are not particularly more dangerous than other machines. In particular, the notion that we are even converging towards AGI is marketing. The focus of criticism should be on the concrete applications of these machines. IMO, statistical learning theory has excellent theoretical backing and lots of practical applications, and the mathematics is honest (if complicated) about the limitations of the field. The statistical learning community is still working on developing the theoretical backbone for LLM systems at scale.

IMO, the main issue is that capitalists are wrecking our environment, stealing all our private information, and stealing our tax dollars to build systems that are then used to kill, oppress, harass, demean, and propagandize the working class. Again, AI technologies are especially capable at helping the worst monsters in all of history achieve these goals. But it’s not because of “intelligence”. It’s because of what they are using these systems to do to us.

I.e., we should absolutely scale down AI system deployment to a sustainable level, and we should burn anyone who uses AI systems for oppression … but people who are organically interested in statistical learning systems should at least be allowed to continue research into the mathematics of “AI” (preferably under a different title, because people who end up using AI do not need nor want intelligent systems, just useful ones!) as long as they’re not doing anything with the technology to oppress people.

I’ll take them seriously when they take their own advice seriously and pause their operations.

And you learn other lessons while hard

You first

Yes.

Billionaires should be taxed abolished.

Extremely critical support for the ad industry in this exactly singular instance

Probably your instance. For example, I’m on a VPN all day every day and I get to post and comment and use Lemmy like nothing happened.

Literally opposite-world opinions

Oof. Hope this gets resolved in your/your instance’s favor, but I do still feel a little proud that we pissed off Rimu so fiercely that we’re getting shadowbanned.

we had been shadowbanned from the PieFed.Social Instance Chooser

Badge of fucking honor

If you have names, please let the Quokk.au admins know. Quokk is an Anarchist-Flotilla instance.

69 jurisdictions

Nice

Yeah you do. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🤷