Jenniferplusplus

There are only a few places online where people can gather and interact that _isn't_ massively tipping the scales in favor of AI. But there's no secret cabal of terminally online posters coordinating harassment campaigns to keep AI fans out. (As a terminally online poster, I feel like I would know) It's just that they're not popular here. Which is, actually, extremely predictable. They are artificially supported everywhere else, so if course this space has a higher proportion of members who are less than interested.

So, if we're an unusually tough crowd, it's because they did a bunch of crowd manipulation most everywhere else. And if they can't handle a tough crowd, that is no reason to suggest doing that same crowd manipulation here. 🤷‍♀️

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Show threadJenniferplusplus15h ago
And even just from a commercial, product perspective, why would you want to. The lack of that manipulation is mastodons only really distinguishing feature. If you take that away, it's just a crappy Twitter clone
Show threadMay Likes Toronto12h ago
@jenniferplusplus and even if you could successfully manipulate a post's popularity, that's it. It's not exactly account level notoriety or algorithms to keep it going.
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG Admin12h ago
@mayintoronto @jenniferplusplus This is literally why they keep spreading the narrative that fedi has failed. It's not easily bent to their will. Despite all of the propaganda about AI for the past nearly four years, the sentiment here remains reality based.
Show threadDaniĂ«l Franke 3h ago
@reflex @mayintoronto @jenniferplusplus Add to that, that for their metrics, fedi has failed. They want a culture like twitter, like threads, like bluesky, where the corporations, celebrities, and anyone blessed by them lead and others follow, and it turns out the average fedi citizen is just not into that.
Show threadmyrmepropagandist2h ago

@jenniferplusplus

I think people here are generally super nice and patient. But, you need to engage with people in small groups, it's not enough to just post and become popular you need to reply, engage.

The worst thing that can happen is now and then I say "well I'm done talking to you" and I don't talk to the person who was wasting my time anymore.

Show threadtootbrute1h ago

@futurebird @jenniferplusplus they don't like it cause on twitter they just blast their shit at each other and yell. rage posting ensues and the algorithm takes it from there.

here you just get blocked if you're an asshole.

Show threadMeznor UNGRATEFUL MIDDLE POWER2h ago

@jenniferplusplus this is a very good point. if what we’re calling an “echo chamber” is to be disciplined about the people we follow, the information we take in, and the freedom to remove things from our feed that distress us.. I dunno. it just seems like self-care and setting boundaries to me.

if the people in the community you choose to follow do the same, about a thing like genAI that is so clearly an unethical, harmful project led by powerful actors… 🤷

Show threadMacCruiskeen38m ago
@jenniferplusplus Mastodan and the Fediverse aren't perfect, but for better or worse it's managed to retain a shred of humanity in how it operates. That's why we're here. The AI broligarchs want to take that away from us, and we don't want them to. They don't understand anyone saying no to them.