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Post by spicybright » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:27 PM UTC

alightsoul wrote: post #639

usernomdeguerre wrote: post #608

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The unfortunate part is that each individual who attempts to leave is fighting the Network Effect[0]. It's fighting against the human organism's basic social nature. If every person wants to leave the platform but X person stays because Y person is there, and Y person stays because Z person is there, and Z person stays because X person is there then it's a feedback loop. Each person wants a better solution or platfor…

My solution to this is creating bots that repost content on sites like bluesky. The network effect can be overcome because people use a site for the content it has and not necessarily to interact with others Of course I only do it with accounts that are very obviously intended to be public like news and government accounts otherwise x and meta can argue you were violating user privacy or some shit like that

Post by gralab » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:30 PM UTC

saghm wrote: post #655

AlexandrB wrote: post #651

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RSS was so good for this. No wonder Google had to kill it.

RSS still exists though? Do you mean Google Reader?

Post by cjkaminski » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

AlexandrB wrote: post #651

ctkhn wrote: post #638

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Not really relevant for public service announcements like gp is talking about. I just want a live feed of my local services updates. I get weather alerts from my city and county over text (contracted by the government through a third party platform), I would take them as a dedicated app or rss feed or anything. I'm not connecting to my friends or family through a weather alert or train delay notice

RSS was so good for this. No wonder Google had to kill it.

Post by bluefirebrand » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

scottyah wrote: post #523

bluefirebrand wrote: post #287

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That's stupid, these courts are stupid It should have nothing to do with storing copies it should have to do with what the models can produce. And it's clear they can produce copyrighted works, they've just been tuned so they don't. That shouldn't satisfy anyone.

You can produce copyrighted works and have just been tuned not to lol. I fail to see how limiting an ability to comply with the law is any different from just complying with the law?

Post by swed420 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

WarmWash wrote: post #654

swed420 wrote: post #628

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> There also is the fact that a large amount of FLOSS is an exercise in resume building (FLOSS contributions is SWE resume building 101) Not all of it. Plus, we could say the same thing about the typical worker at the average modern company. Google's product graveyard is a popular example of this. Resume padding, job hopping and ladder climbing are the norm now. In that respect, I can see why you're so pessimistic ab…

The key thing to address is the near zero marginal cost part. If the philosophy extended beyond a binary blob, we would have a whole parallel economy of free tangible goods, from workers using their expertise on their own time. But this basically doesn't exist because real costs are involved.