Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.

The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.

I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.

The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."

Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

"Google has evolved from a symbiotic force that benefited the entire internet into one that is actively destroying the ecosystem it created."

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/07/02/google-from-symbiote-to-parasite/

A judge has ruled in favor of Meta, saying training AI from copyrighted and pirated books is fair use.

In a similar case a judge ruled in favour of Anthropic.

It is a sad day for book writers. You have been robbed of revenue by the world’s richest people. They will make tons of money while book writers struggle to pay rent and food. There is no justice for artists and writers. My heart goes out to them.

For the first time, I actually read an AI summary from a web search I made. I've avoided them until now, but my eyes glanced and took in the gist before I could blink.

It was on a topic I am a certified consultant in; I was just refreshing my memory. And it answered that the product worked in the way the customer wanted it to rather than the way I thought it did, and cited documentation and support forum links as the sources for that answer.

I checked them. It was wrong.

God I fucking hate this bullshit.

THIS POLL IS CLOSED!

Silly Poll Time

You can only choose one.

Boost it. #food