Stephen Alfred Gutknecht
Professional in social media since 1985, created / sold social media server apps at age 15. Traveled the world to study media ecology.
"Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine
The comic's suit questions if AI models can function without training themselves on protected works.
I doubt a human can compose chat responses without having trained at school on previous language. Copyright favors the rich and powerful, established like Silverman.
yes, interpretation of various things, not just reading normal prose.
Way back in October 31st 1517 finally one of the clergy got so fed up reading the damn book that they said, "Sin Boldly" and said... read here, verse Romans 11:32 ... romans1132.com
The book is so full of contradictions and that's the power. It cuts both ways.
A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school.
I'm not sure I was ever told there was "a plan" for that, being born in 1969... and graduating high school in the late 1980's. By the time I was 8 years old, the radio was already playing: "somehow we missed out on the pot of gold"... "free to face a life that's ahead of me"... something beyond what you describe... "we will search for tomorrow on every shore"....
My personal plans in life have been consistently wrecked by the waves of power-seeking by governments, businessmen, and technology power shifts. I feel like the age of Mass Dehumanization has been underway with climate change denial, medical science denial, pretty much the fears outlined by !sagan@lemm.ee in 1995...
If I tried to make reasonable points about anything, or god forbid, shared my experiences - I was downvoted into oblivion
Introducing quotes from authors that were related to the subject would really show how people were locked in the context of media immediacy, the environment. Links to outside citations would almost always generate replies from people who obviously did not study the citation and just wanted to respond back.
It used to be something people said 'out loud' about people not reading links and just commenting... then it just became normalized.
Musk and Putin, two historic experts and achievers in trickle-down memes. Population control via meme machines. They seek power the Rupert Murdoch way.
lemmy.ml is back up! editing the posting title
Linux community arrogance is to deny the device driver issues and think Apple is fine, when the reason Apple thrives is because they don't have open hardware like Linux, BSD, Windows...
Hardware companies are rarely held account for their absent support of Linux - some campaigns have come and gone, but in the end Linux users tend to arrogantly say it's trivial to switch and embrace dishonesty. I guess they figure Microsoft is dishonest, so they normalize it.
Edit 4: The Shadow-Ban doesn’t seem to work on r/help but definitely on r/hfy.
I've seen this come up with a large number of links on Reddit that were even to BBC website. It comes down to the subreddit settings on spam filtering...
I think the whole process of automatic hiding of spam filtering for user accounts is a bad-faith experience. People on Reddit are infamous for not actually reading links and wanting bots to bring in text and such, and I think a lot of the anti-spam measures cultivated this for a very long time.
One thing that crowdsoucing never was very good at was spam filtering... because too many would sell out and buy upvotes/likes on Twitter/Reddit etc.
It's the spam filtering, and they consider people spamming any link... and each subreddit can set the spam fitler higher or not. This was going on long before Lemmy and I've seen it even with BBC links.
are they cigars, I can't tell
Interesting observation....
yes, reading code to people, basic interpretation. It's a pattern that I think comes post Cambridge Analytica media tactics.
memes from many sources. And a lot of people created several logins on other instances given all the instability of Lemmy.
How is the Fediverse privacy focused?
Not only have there been major bugs with delete of comments not working on other servers, the whole idea of federation is that it gets sent out to any instance that wants a copy - with not even a 'terms of service' that is standard on Lemmy.
For such a communist focus that the Lemmy developers have, I'ts so odd that they don't emphasize that content is public and have it like Wikipedia content contributions. They use GPL license to force people to share their work of the code, but then they turn around and promise privacy that they fail to deliver on given that they don't even warn newcomers how federation works.
These issues need to be addressed or Lemmy will be MySpaced within a year.
Lemmy is already well over 4 years on the Internet and open source.
Imagine being in Taiwan and having full access to information about China and the west and still shilling for China. Those types of people should be looking for a dominatrix, not a political philosophy…
That's kind of the history of humanity regarding religion. To some degree when the religious prophets were alive it make sense, but hundreds of years later it's a story book (or oral tradition) and people still strive for the authority.
We haven't really had that many teachers like Carl Sagan who describe the history and our favoring of authority - inability to question them. It's pretty weird, as they often aren't attractive or good speakers, but you see people just accept almost anything they say. I mean in the USA I witnessed so many people who would trust Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones kind of blindly, and there is some mechanism at play that humanity in total seems to keep engaging.
I just signed up with lemmy.world because lemmy.ml is down.
lemmy.ml has been a slow-motion train wreck all June with errors and failing to send out federation copies. This asklemmy community is homed there, and a lot in the past 24 hours is missing.
Being open source won’t prevent this, sadly. 4 years is still young, but if a critical mass shifts back to Reddit then Lemmy will be considered a failure.
you express very limited understanding of open source and how competition works. Just because Microsoft kept selling Windows and "Linux on the Desktop" never came to displace Windows by 2005, it doesn't mean Linux on end-user machines was a failure. Android Linux came along and is the biggest Linux distro ever, defeating Windows CE / Windows Mobile.
if a critical mass shifts back to Reddit then Lemmy will be considered a failure.
Again, that is like saying "people looked at Linux on desktop in 2003 and went back to Windows, so Linux was a failure". Trying to displace entrenched players is often not how it works, it is when people leverage the source code and some parts of the system in different ways - like Android did with Linux - that things often change.
Regarding Reddit specifically, the Reddit code was open source for a very long time, nobody wanted to leave Reddit for different owner/operators... that changed in 2023 when every alternate to Reddit has seen a surge in developer interest (even non-federated apps like Tildes). That's not really happened in the decades Reddit has been around before that specifically large groups of people and app developers have specifically expressed interest in moving away from Reddit in mass (Voat was the only prior big movement, but API apps were not really a focus in that movement).
By “MySpaced” I mean “become irrelevant”.
8-bit video games stopped selling in the 1990's, but then in 2023 there is a huge "Retro gaming" and "retro computing" movement. Same with vinyl music records going out of style then coming back in as retro. Right now TikTok and video dominate Reddit front page - which Lemmy hasn't even been taking on with video clips that reach Reddit's technology level, let alone TikTok. There are trends of changes that are more than just one platform owners vs. another. Some of those may be in favor like federation/networked servers that Reddit does not have - that even drew the attention of Facebook.
DOWNVOTES DONT MEAN SHIT! SO SHUT UP ABOUT DOWNVOTES AND GET OVER IT!
"MEDIA ECOLOGY DON'T MEAN SHIT I"M JUST HERE FOR AMUSING US ALL TO DEATH WITH DUMB MEMES"
Then why do people use them? And quit yelling.
People are attacking you, ganging up on you, one of the favorite things on Reddit like media platforms is to be hard core conformity enforcers and silence attempts at understanding mob mentality.
I expect it is federation outbound activity growing in memory usage, it's all held in RAM for every post/comment/like going out to subscribed servers. !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml is a community for the focus on scaling Lemmy.