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[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 216 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How to legally discriminate against anyone above the age of 40?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Or under the age of 25. Nobody is voluntarily signing up for Instagram in the modern era. Hell, even TikTok is getting past its prime.

They might as well be demanding my Spotify Playlist.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where are the kids then? Roblox?

[–] mephiska@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] fonix232@fedia.io 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

See, THIS is what modern technology was supposed to bring.

It's so hard to organise a hangout with friends. Nobody knows when they're available because they don't have a proper calendar. Everyone just lives their life one day at a time, having no clue if they'll be free next Tuesday for a pint or two. It's so annoying.

The moment you start using a semi-public calendar, things become so much easier. People don't need to see your events, just free/busy blocks. And when you want to organise something for a dozen people, that level of knowledge, combined with some AI (ain't nobody got time to find a free time slot that's good for everyone!), sorts these things out so quickly.

Sure, some 30% still won't turn up but at least it's not an endless "X can't make it next Tuesday, next Thursday would be good except Y and Z are out of town, etc etc". I have your emails, I have your availability calendars, let's make it happen. Boom. Pub time scheduled in 5 minutes.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This doesn’t need AI. Traditional algorithms can do this.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True, I was thinking one step further with AI negotiating with your friends' AI to find the right spot, with minimal prompting to the users, kinda like the automated call screening systems you have on modern phones.

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's the eventual industry goal with "agentic AI". Still, absurd waste of power, water, and arable land in the end; especially since the big wigs aren't even really doing much that's innovative to reduce the draw to any of those. Hell, they'll build a data center in one of the world's hottest deserts on faith they can tap an aquifer. Wild really.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

absurd waste of power, water, and arable land

the AI systems I'm talking about here aren't LLMs. Their power/resource usage is so insignificant that you could literally run them right on your smartphone without having a noticeable impact on battery life.

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I mean valid. I was mostly just supporting you've got a good use case by pointing out the industry is aiming for your ideal utilization. Personally I also agree with you in that a more pared down model usually can be more effective.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

Move to Germany lol, everybody has a calendar. Downside is that you have to schedule meetups long in advance because everybody (at least adults) plan like at least a week, some like a month, ahead and we aren't very flexible

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Then, an idea struck: He sent the girl a calendar invite titled “Hook up?” for the following Friday night at 11:30 p.m.

That's brilliant.

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

i think you're severely overestimating how discerning most zoomers are about social media

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They might as well be demanding my Spotify Playlist.

Need to clean up majorly before submitting. Not sure if I should be more worried about certain lyrics or extreme noise and/or extreme weirdness.

[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Do you think I can keep pornocore tracks? I mean, they dont look at genre names, surely?

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Or under the age of 25. Nobody is voluntarily signing up for Instagram in the modern era.

Ok this will make me sound 8,000 years old, but what social network are the kids these days using? TikTok exists, but that isn't really a personal blogging site like Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, etc. What is the equivalent for Facebook for present day high school and college students? Is everyone just on discord?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't think that people do that very much any more, since the medium has changed.

People don't really do things like make blog posts as much as they used to.

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Nobody does personal blogging. Well, except a few specific primates doing so on Xitter. And I've also seen some people with at least half a brain getting a domain and writing blogs there in hopes someone clicks on their link.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're reading blog to literally. Think how people traditionally use Facebook/Myspace, posting regular updates, photos from their life, etc, intended primarily for friends and family to see. What's the equivalent of that for kids today?

[–] ApertureUA@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

None. It is no longer "cool" to post your entire life onto the internet. Source: I am a kid.

I mean, outside of posting a few pics of college events, I don't think most of my friends post pictures to Instagram. Hell, some of them like me don't even have Instagram/major social media anymore.

Before I left Insta, I didn't even bother to follow friends/irl people I know ~~because I'd rather talk to them in person that shit's dumb~~, I really only looked at memes, silly reels/vids, and fanart of stuff. Like 90% of Gen Z is only on social media for content and lols, not to update each other on their lives

I talk to my friends in person. We share pictures of shit we do in life to each other in group chats, but 95% of what we do was done as a group anyway. We don't really feel the need to let randos/online friends know every thing we're doing all the time.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I think large group chats. Benefits of larger audience posting without being completely public-facing.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that sounds insane. Everyone knows those platforms are selling your data. I don’t think most young people are that stupid.

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yall are making playlists? I just add all songs to the liked and just hit skip until I find songs I'm in the mood for.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you have no idea how popular insta is if you think this is the case

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You have no idea how many people still use dial-up internet. shrug

It's still pigeonholed to a generational cohort.