tante"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/
John
AI6YR Ben@buckfiftyseven @tante So let me get this right. You are an AI fan, and you don't like people who are not fans of AI (for the reasons in that post), so you are unfollowing people who don't like AI? That's fine, I guess. š¤
j-r conlin
Dare Obasanjo (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Three month check-in on follower counts after posting the same content on all 3 apps ā¢ Threads (38K ā40K): People love the shitposts and leave insightful comments on AI. ā¢ Bluesky (47K ā 60K): People love the anti-Trump posts. ā¢ Mastodon (18K š): People hate AI and Iām steadily losing followers.
Or, what if, you know, AI isn't the mainstream that folk want to believe it is?
There are plenty of folk here that have strong following who are up-front about AI. (https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon comes to mind, but there are lots of others.) The thing is that the fediverse lives by recommendation. If folk aren't following what you're doing, it's because you're not finding your audience, where before someone else essentially did the marketing for you.
What cracks me up is that these folk are presuming that they are so special that folk would seek them out, and are surprised and whiny when that doesn't happen. If anything, I'd say that Mastodon reflects reality probably a fair bit more than the other platforms because you have to work to build your audience rather than have one farmed out to you.
(This probably also explains why Doritos doesn't set up stands at local farmers markets.)
Simon Willison (@[email protected])
9.26K Posts, 2.07K Following, 27.1K Followers Ā· Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io and many other #projects.
I know, right? How will Mastodon ever be profitable and return positive value for it's shareholders.
( Sorry, I promise I'll stop laughing soon. )
Look, I'll acknowledge that the people who insist on pushing their opinions onto people who don't want them are sad.
I'll also say that Mastodon has a long, deep HOA inspired history. Both things can be very true.
It's almost as if it's made of people, who have their own opinions and ideas, who are gathered together, but are allowed not to hear things they don't like and more of the things they do. People are like that. They do that sort of thing. It can be both positive and negative.
That said, the fediverse is under no obligation to grow. It can exist just fine as the niche place a bunch of weirdos hang out and share cat pictures because the folk that like to do that are the ones footing the bills.
If I'm not able to find my audience, that's not your problem. I wouldn't expect you to want to sit through a weird mix of cryptography, systems operational discussions and bad puns unless you enjoyed that sort of thing, and even then, I'd worry about you. I post here because it's an outlet. I'd do it even if I had zero followers. I also enjoy the fact that @tante and other folk post really interesting things, so I like discussing those topics with folk, but I also understand those folk have zero obligation to listen to me and always have the option to either mute or block me.
@jrconlin @buckfiftyseven @tante How will the Fediverse possibly grow if you're always posting cryptic things?!? You need to start posting about fashion, and makeup, and how popular you are, like a NORMAL influencer. CMON! CRYPTOGRAPHY FASHION TIPS! š¤Ŗ
Sorry, I don't do things the normie's are talking about.
( Ok, seriously, that's actually kind of neat, and hopefully folk are doing testing about it, but I'm guessing she'd win anyway. )
