Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber?

deutrino

@CiaraNi @davey_cakes @scottjenson people who are severely sickened by corporate engagement-farming UX when they show up here will either detox or self-select out. and while it's probably laudable to maximize the proportion who detox (and how quickly they do it), this is actually fine. the ones who cling to an interaction style which grew to fit dark patterns are often pretty unpleasant to interact with.

deutrino

@ahltorp @scottjenson @carnage4life the amount of nonstop politics is oppressive, and I'm an American so I have direct context to understand 90% of it. IMO it's a miracle we haven't driven away all non-US English speakers completely.

note that I'm not saying politics aren't important. I'm saying Mastodon Network users NEVER shut the fuck up about it EVER. I have a filter set for politics, so I can engage or not as I'm able & willing. it contains over 400 terms and it gets a daily workout.

Juno Jove

@Dtraslerwriting @rubinjoni omg this is what I'll call Grok data centers from now on.

django

@scottjenson no one on this server (or any) should be treated like that either!

Juno Jove

@Azuaron @scottjenson wait, threads is mastodon?!?!

'Pa :vim:

@xavier pinging @andypiper to take a gander at this thread, as @scottjenson 's self-described (implied?) authority on Mastodon direction might not sit well with - er - Mastodon core.

Jon

@scottjenson my reaction is similar to @unchartedworlds' ... in fact I'm puzzled by your framing of this whole discussion. Dare isn't a journalist, so what does his experience have to do with whether or not journalists are welcome here? And yes of course somebody like Dare -- a US-based product manager who is well-known for his work at Meta (and before that Microsoft) -- is going to get more engagement on Threads and Bluesky than on Mastodon. What does that have to do with Mastodon being an echo chamber?

tootbrute

@dlakelan those ai brainiacs think they can vibe code anything, so why can't they vibe code their own instance?

also, i'm here for the

@scottjenson @mattwilcox @Gargron

tootbrute

@dgodon @scottjenson @Gargron whoa whoa whoa now. that's ANTI WHITE /s

AI people are special snowflakes that we must nurture

hahahahahahah

Demian

@scottjenson
While I took issue with some of what you said or perhaps just the way you said it, I didn’t mean to attack you if it came across that way at all. I really appreciate your presence here especially as it relates to improving Mastodon!
@flesh @Gargron @adriano

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦

RE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/116274521264107379

Besides, there's no attitude against journalists here. There may be against PR shills, but some of my earliest follows from October 2022 are active and doing well. Fedi isn't their exclusive channel, but for many it is the insurance strategy. Hat tip to @molly0xfff on documenting that path and @mike and all of @Flipboard on holding the flag high. The journalists are too many to list here but @FediFollows has a "starter pack" for any niche.
@jdp23 @scottjenson @unchartedworlds

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@marshray @neoluddite @deFractal
Nah. That's just normalizing horrible people. That's all they want. They want to hurt others and still be respected. Rub in. That's all.

paul

@Kierkegaanks

Because it keeps needing to be said: puppy killers are bad. White Supremacy is bad. We don't need to see their side and have a debate. We had a debate. It was called World War II.

funbaker; Je suis Antifa

@scottjenson "people ACTIVELY going after people they don't agree with. Just look at the replies to my post to get small sample."

You're just unable to deal with criticism, sorry.

@pmdj @dalias

Dave

@scottjenson @Gargron off is the general direction in which you should fuck with your "let's build an AI niche" bullshit.

Benny Powers 🇮🇱🦁

@sloanlance @scottjenson @AccordingtoWouter is that because "lived experience" isn't something Jews have access to? Or because you ancestral memory includes pogroms and expulsions, in additions to judenschweinen and blood libels?

Wouter 🇳🇱🇧🇷🇧🇪

@bp @scottjenson @sloanlance With all due respect, I don’t understand what Jews have to do with a discussion about AI tech journalists.

Jonobie

@scottjenson I’ve been following this today, and was thinking that it would be really helped by community blocking that people can subscribe to. (Composable blocking, I think Mekka calls it?)

I suspect if groups of people could say, “we collectively are A People that want none of This Topic, and we trust our people to remove it”, there’d be a lot less yelling at people to stop talking about That Topic. It would just be invisible to most.

You can do that via a server today of course, but that’s a super blunt tool. It’s not post-specific, and it’s a handful of mods trying to do it for all topics for all their users.

Versus saying “If any of these 40 people tags someone’s post as NoAltText, I just won’t see it”. Or possibly a higher threshold with something like “if 30% of these people said it’s AIHype, I’ll skip”.

Helenisenough

@scottjenson @progressivecat @CiaraNi

I don't get in their face. I'm just sharing my response to posts without alt text. That post is not for me. It might be for someone else.

Cassandra is only carbon now

@danirabbit @scottjenson This. I do not think it's even slightly an exaggeration to say that AI is, in its present and marketed form, fascist. It is good when fascists aren't allowed in the room, actually.