New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?

On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.

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Not really sure what this is saying. Stipulated that most people experience the Fedi as one big interconnected social network. That's what it is. And the fact that the prevailing attitude is a fair degree of hostility to AI, mirrors what most of the general population thinks about AI. The fact that an ungoverned and ungovernable network reflects the general consensus does not seem to be a problem that needs solving.

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DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA
Source: A foolish Old Coder and not LLM
Illustration: GenAI of Elon in the Sky

AI is Satan
So, Fedi AI is hatin'
To most, that seems fine
Few that are sane for AI pine

Flames the Old Coder doesn't seek
This rhyme is tongue in cheek
He sees AI both sides
Does not totally derides

But the AI of right now
Is a world-eating monster cow
Cthulhu, give up your seat
The cow is the monster to beat

AI the economy will smash
After the crash
Billionaires at the bottom of the sea
The place where they need to be

Mad Max 2 world with burning tires
Every institution set to expires
Crushed by AI and the orange toad
It's a colorful story and frightening load

The world's great age begins anew
The golden years return
Yeah, right, that's not going to ensue
It's all going to burn

Meet me on the other side
We'll be in rags, but we'll find our stride
Let's collect the pieces
Hand them to our nephews and nieces

There will be a bit of this and that
AI will be there but with a small hat
Not much gas, but hopefully the Net
I'd rather have the Net, you bet

Little will have been learned
A few more years may have been earned
Then the rest of the bill will come due
It's going to be warm, you know this is true

After that, it'll be down to the sunless sea
We won't be there, not you or me
Twice five miles of infertile ground
No bird will sing, there won't be a sound

#AI #climatechange #CoderSongs #rhyme #Trump