Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber?

no way to tell if people are leaving the fediverse or people are just switching to activitypub servers that don't track "daily actives"

@scottjenson Meanwhile according to my experience mastodonians want people being human and/or passionate about something, not doing their job. We want connections, whether you're a journalist, someone famous or a girl next door.
So mastodon is not for everybody just as crochetting or riding a roller coaster is not for everybody. You got to enjoy this type of experience.

@De_Minimis @dalias
Dr. Becky Smethurst is Legit. I've seen her content and trust it. It's your loss to not watch it. But you're right, they're not simulating every single star. They're taking shortcuts. Modelling simulation always takes shortcuts. She's talking about a CS paper that sounds really interesting, answering the question of what can we do to solve a difficult problem between now and when we have quantum computers that can do the work. It's good science education, Cassandrich.

@scottjenson @carnage4life I doubt on if we even can compare those metrics like that.

These are three different platforms that work in totally different ways. They have different reach, and different algorithms for showing posts to the users.

Anyway, I feel like tags are havely underutilized (in my feed), dont really provide good filtering options for blocking (they may be not used, or be different to what you have set up) or discovery (only work for viral things, and still may have different variants)

@scottjenson @carnage4life I dont think having bluesky's tagging system would work here, but having some federated lists of common tags that would serve just as reference, with additional option of blocking (or allowing) by user and tag would help in my opinion get discover what you want, and selectivly remove what you dont.

@scottjenson quality journalists are welcome. But those are quite rare these days.

@scottjenson I'm absolutely comfortable with 99% of AI 'journalists' staying away from here.

How weird to conflate that with the debacle around Black Twitter and the racism people of colour called out on the Fedi, as if not being interested in LLMs is the same as racism.

And everyone talks about AI all the time on Masto, predominantly critically

@scottjenson @patrick_h_lauke “The metrics are clear, people are leaving mastodon, our daily actives are going down.”
This is exactly the kind of stupid meltdown that shows exactly how you are still brainwashed by monolithic social media dumpster fire driven by engagement, profit and a fake notion of inclusivity. You are still trying to mimic Twitter and you don’t belong on Mastodon, senile old man.

man, I've been learning so many new cool words from this thread.

CC: @scottjenson@social.coop

@nikclayton @scottjenson I'm not sure if you had some pent up anger and anxiety that we just caught a stray, or what. But these characterizations are unfair based on OPs questions. And I say that as the Fediverse's number 1 critic.

I can guarantee you if you would've answered "I don't know," you wouldn't have received the pushback you're clearly anticipating.

I'm listening to your podcast as I type this, and hearing how you all want to leave corporate social media, but you're here treating this place like corporate social media.

This isn't a place where everyone's goal is centered on themselves. People here care about the collective, because otherwise why would anyone be here? There's no algorithm to game.

No one expects you to have all the answers because no one here has all the answers. But people do expect you to participate in the greater community.

That starts with dropping the smug attitude, man. You have no idea what the average Mastodonian is like. You only know what the tech elite say about us. And most of that is wildly unfair characterizations.

This is one of the only places on the Internet fighting the corporatization of the web.

We have trust and safety folks working their ass off for little to no pay. Server admins paying out of pocket so we can have something better than Facebook. Developers submitting bugs and building infrastructure so you can come here and conduct your experiment.

Those people deserve more than a knee jerk reaction. So recalibrate.

What you're doing here has a potential to be something really cool. But it won't work if you're gonna isolate yourself from the people you need. And trust me, you will need them.

You will soon learn how hard it is to keep this place afloat. And that's before considering how many in the corporate web don't want us here.

@crankylinuxuser
An LLM can't analyse an image by itself.

This is computer vision and neural networks.
LLM's might be then used then to rewrite the CV/NN output.

@tiotasram @scottjenson @tael

@scottjenson @carnage4life Would've been an echo chamber if you had something tipping the scales, be it some algorithm or human moderators, but in this case people simply chose not to follow certain topics. This is simply the Court of Public Opinion at work, and AI has been deemed unwanted by the jury.

@DiogoConstantino @scottjenson @patrick_h_lauke the last time somebody said you need to listen to alternative points of view they went on to tell me that Jews were running in the world. Quite frankly there are a lot of opinions and views that I'm glad I don't get the pleasure of having algorithmically jammed down my throat...

@marshray
Thanks

It is something I've coined based on my experience on SM. The term just lately materialised, so treat it as an prototype at best.

Usually it's an argument that one can't read/understand or did not read/understood a text correctly.

First case is just a “ad hominem” in too many words.
Both can be rejecting a different interpretation of a text than the original author intended, instead of interrogating (probably a named fallacy also, but I can't recall which).

@iris @gavin57 I'm hopeful about the mnt reform.

@onepict @iris MNT?

@gavin57 @iris

It's an open hardware company. They have some @NGIZero funding for their next project. The mnt reform next.

@onepict @iris @NGIZero Cheers Esther, I had not heard of these. It does look interesting.