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Re: 1M Users
#72Scrolling through these profiles in the age of text generating AI, gives me this uncanny feeling, that what I am reading is just random gibberish spat out by a LLM. I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces. Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish…
>"FB and there isn't really a reason for AI spam."
Heh good joke. Facebook is full of spam bots, phishing etc. Using following template, hack legitimate account, buy ADs for your phishing campaign with stolen CCs, phish people, rinse and repeat.
And quantity of phishing/spam is so huge, Meta is basically unable to fight this.
Re: 1M Users
#73It's incredible how this type of revival from the past gained such meaningful traction, but, in a way, I fully understand it. The online world has become so confusing that many desire a simple one. The same feeling drove me to adopt Threads over Twitter/X—even if I still use them both.
The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what advertisers want vs what users want
> The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what advertisers want vs what users want
Is it? Last time I heard about it advertisers were going away because Musk is focusing on what loudest users want (being able to speak loudly) and not what advertisers want (moderation)
Re: 1M Users
#74As long as this site doesn't implement the ActivityPub protocol, I don't see any reason for me to move to this site. I don't have time to maintain another account, and I want to keep in touch with people from Mastodon and Threads.
Re: 1M Users
#75Scrolling through these profiles in the age of text generating AI, gives me this uncanny feeling, that what I am reading is just random gibberish spat out by a LLM. I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces. Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish…
I was very stressed last year and had what felt like a dissociative episode: Knowing what was becoming possible with LLMs, I one day just couldn't shake the feeling of unreality while reading any online spaces, including hacker news. I felt like maybe 70% of comments I was reading might not be real. Everything, including HN, just seemed so predictable or unsurprising
It was an altered state that felt like the leading edge of... something
Re: 1M Users
#76Looks interesting. Definitely nailing the old myspace aesthetic. I’d be more curious about active users versus registered users. Social networks are usually defined by activity. Unfortunately registered users probably contains a lot of bots and spammers.
When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord…
> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good
Discord as a text chat app is appalling. Whether on mobile, chromebook or desktop PC it's slow and janky to transition between channels. It is a measurably worse user experience than using IRC on a computer from twenty years ago with 1,000x less raw MIPS.
Maybe it has some advantages for voice chat, but to me it's a lowest common denominator we use because of the people and despite the software.
Re: 1M Users
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Their customer service is a nightmare Having customer service would be a step up. >>We banned your account for illegal activity. >But I just signed up and tried logging in? >>After review we have banned your IP forever for illegal activity.
What's the point of banning an IP address?
I love Tor - but the exit node IP addresses do not have a good reputation, because they're a source of a lot of misbehaviour.
Sure, 'serious' attackers have botnets of home users' PCs and insecure IoT devices and whatnot. But because Tor exit nodes are easily used by even unsophisticated attackers, they quickly get flagged as sources of abuse.
Re: 1M Users
#78Scrolling through these profiles in the age of text generating AI, gives me this uncanny feeling, that what I am reading is just random gibberish spat out by a LLM. I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces. Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish…
I was very stressed last year and had what felt like a dissociative episode: Knowing what was becoming possible with LLMs, I one day just couldn't shake the feeling of unreality while reading any online spaces, including hacker news. I felt like maybe 70% of comments I was reading might not be real. Everything, including HN, just seemed so predictable or unsurprising It was an altered state that felt like the leading…
> Everything […] just seemed so predictable or unsurprising
That are people for you. Most of the time, we are uninteresting, predictable, and unoriginal. Especially when you got used to some subset, like HN, where there is a bit if self reinforcement, through the voting system.
Re: 1M Users
#79Looks interesting. Definitely nailing the old myspace aesthetic. I’d be more curious about active users versus registered users. Social networks are usually defined by activity. Unfortunately registered users probably contains a lot of bots and spammers.
When I saw this I was like ooh noes not myspace all over again. I feel this style may actually be a hinderance for adopting more users. People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it. It is like comparing Slack to Teams. It will be a long time before anything catches immediately up to Slack or Discord…
> People really want something more reactive like Discord. Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it.
This probably comes as a surprise to Discord users, but it really is a niche social network.
We're talking fractions of a percent of users compared to existing social networks.
People don't really want something like Discord - the downsides by far outweigh any upside of "a closed-off private network of people", biggest one being lack of visibility and consistency.
Re: 1M Users
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Discord is very much disliked, but the software is really good and that is why most people won't abandon it I dislike every single one of discord's design decisions, I think the software is garbage, and it is riddled with security problems. Their customer service is a nightmare, a hacker got one of my friends accounts and even though he'd paid up for some kind of Discord extra service for more than 2 years in advan…
While I disagree with the parent I personally think Discord is great. I've been on IRC for over 30 years and Discord is what I always imagined IRC 2.0 would be like.
What, owned by a single company and monetised within an inch of it’s life?