Dorian DiaconueYou promises to change social media. But the alternatives already exist
kubofhromoslavA classical sign of an early worldcentric worldview that is more about competition than about collaboration. A level “orange” in Integral theory. But humankind is continuing its development to late worldcentric worldview “green” level and more. And Fediverse is helping with that!
if the problem is that major platforms are centralized, opaque, and controlled by corporations, why would the solution be yet another centralized platform controlled by a corporation?
Because people are brainwashed into only trusting billionaires, corporations, brand names, and consumer packaged goods to solve all our problems.
Schwim DandyIn this case, I think it’s target user isn’t looking to get out from under the billionaires and corpos, just the American billionaires and corpos. That’s who eyou is designed to appeal to.
The tiny number of people who are anti billionaire and corpos-run social media regardless of nationality already have our very tiny corner carved out.
Yup. Sadly it is what it is. I kind of expected a push for the defederalized solutions in the current cirtumstances
Sadly this is the truth
cosmicrookieAlternatives are great is only people were using them.
I have a hard time understanding why people are so hard headed on not leaving
Unless we can increase our mental loads, more of anything doesn’t really work.
Lemmy is the thing I’ll use until there’s new protocols that focus on privacy or something else.
I wish more people would see things like this
I think it looks rather nice
robocallAn AI-powered fact-checking system embedded directly into posts.
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Funny timeline we live in
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞The alternative is Facebook with lies that go unchecked completely. This is actually an area where AI is not bad.
just because it is a solution doesn’t mean its a good solution or even better than no solution
mimavoxIf i’s implemented the right way, it could be. AI can be used for good things even of the knee-jerk reaction of so many people online is to equate it with crap.
Recoiling upon smelling shit is also a kneejerk reaction
its always this same bullshit, “if we just implemented this correctly” where can an AI participate in fact-checking? It can’t be trusted because of hallucinations, so the solution would be to uh… manually review everything it does? just rely on third parties to do it? What ACTUAL USE does this shit have?
FreddyNOI doubt it, honestly. It’d likely catch a lot of misinfo, yes, but it would likely also classify any new findings that run counter to previous assumptions as misinfo. LLMs can’t keep up to date. And they still have the same issue that whoever trains them gets to decide what is and isn’t misinfo, which starts being a problem when it’s an ubiquitous social media site.
“Correcting” incorrect information with more incorrect information doesn’t improve the situation.
AI tools are inherently unreliable because of the randomness of their text generation.
And worse, Europe doesn’t build its own AIs. LLM fact checking would have to be done by Grok or Claude or some other product from big American tech. And there’s an obvious problem with a social media network trying to avoid American censorship and political bias but “fact checking” with a tool that has American censorship and political bias built into it.
We will have to see about that
The problem is building the network. Nobody uses it because nobody uses it and nobody will use it until everybody uses it.
That has always been and will always be the primary problem. You can solve all of the other problems and it won’t matter.
It used to be easier to spread the word when there weren’t so many alternatives, to be honest. Right now, I’m not sure how to convince people.
I disagree. This has been a thing for 20+ years. Facebook started out the same way. So did reddit. That’s one reason the founders of reddit created mulitple accounts to post from at first - to make the network look larger than it was.
I’ve joined several networks over the years that didn’t pan out. The one I remember from a few years ago was Imzy. Good platform, just didn’t take off.