They showed up to "correct" a joke. They're riding among the clouds.
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
He's already demanded an investigation into those opinion polls. He won't be looking in the mirror.
It works the same on Lemmy, it's just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.
Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.
Languages, famously static constructs.
You have to soft launch your fascist dictatorship. People need time to accept the possibility.
It took a lifetime to turn the Roman Republic into the Principate. You gotta ease into these things to keep peope from shanking you on the senate floor.
No, what my parents do has nothing to do with what I do, or what I am capable of.
That's not actually statistically true, though. Like, the biggest predictor of your life's financial outcome is the postal code you grew up with.
This data allows you to see if children of sales assistants, restaurant workers, janitors, are underrepresented. It allows you to measure social mobility and meritocracy.
But can't the same thing be said about melanin levels? "There is no data suggesting there is a problem" is a door bad actors hide behind all of the time.
Modern BBSes aren't an issue -- they're out there, and they're pretty good these days -- but the lack of VC funding that lets them fund massive user growth isn't there, so the level of friction re: setting up your own remains high.
Discord's advantage is that it's not just easy to set up, but also free. You're not going to get that in the forum space anymore. ProBoards isn't going to invest the money into making them sexy anytime soon.
There's a huge opportunity not just for Matrix, but also for other open source or distributed players here, if they can move quickly enough.
They won't, though.
Personally, I'd just like to see up/downvotes replaced wholesale with emoji reactions.
Downvotes are a dark feature designed to excuse Reddit (and YouTube, etc.) from actually moderating their platforms under the guise of "social" moderation, but it's actually something that stifles speech that challenges the consensus, rather than preventing toxicity.
Meanwhile, custom emojis are another way for instaces to differentiate themselves.
Some things you need to know about LLMs:
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They are probabilistic text generators, which look at their training data (in a very abstracted way) and go "based on what's written here, what's most likely to come next?
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They treat numbers like any other word or phrase
This means, when using them for TTTPGs, they will treat everything like it's 5e, because 5e dominates the discussion, and that any numbers they spit out will only be right by accident.
And to engage peoples hard, negative feelings. The conservatives keep capturing the NDP's natural base because they refuse to actually reflect their feelings and perceptions back to them. This whole "let's get along, and cancel your bank fees" thing doesn't resonate.