it surely has nothing to do that vehicles that wouldn’t be allowed on the road anywhere else brcause they are danger to people in and around them became such a norm that whole car brands now don’t even produce anything else…
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i have a family. living with a small child in an american city without a car is entirely possible. you lose the ability to go out (either to city or to nature) but with a small child you don’t have time to do that anyway so you might as well pay more to live closer to your job. alternative is paying the difference in rent for a car loan and loosing the time you don’t have while sitting in traffic. big caveat: this works only if you earn enough to be able to afford living close to a city center in the first place. also, it is still way less comfortable than a life in a developed european city.
it’s activitypub thing so lemmy as well. you sign up on one server, subscribe to community on different server, mods of the different server will decide they don’t like your server for any reason (e.g. explicitly because nods of your server didn’t blacklist some other server) amd you are out of that community. it sucks. imho something based on the old news system would be better (i.e. community exists independently and servers just subscribe to them or not).
bingo! it also explains why tech bros consider AI good for everything - they are not really good at or familiar with anything themselves.
on a serious note: to put this in a specific example i will use programing. management/PO/business will have a vague ideas about what needs to be done. they have to explain them to someone in plain human language and let them figure out details of how to turn it into a an algorith that does that. that someone has to fill in all the blanks, make many decisisions about unspecified details. but, in addition to that, they also have to make sure the code is delivered on time, on budget, it wull remain easy to maintain and doesn’t break anything important. those later details are not something the original stakeholders (business/management/POs) normally have to deal with. it’s someone’s else’s responsibility. it’s just annoying to them that they have to deal with another temperamental human and that human can take weeks to make even “simple” changes to their code (because they have to care about all those other things like maintainability)… so when a salesman comes over and offers them they can instead explain the problem to a chatbot and get the code in minutes the proposition sounds irresistible!
I’m not talking about people I block (I am not exposed enough and don’t suffer enough harassment so I don’t block almost anyone)… I’m talking about about mods of the instancr that hosts people I care about suddenly blocking instance that hosts my account - not because anything we did but because they didn’t like that mods of my instance didn’t block another instance that has some weird (e.g. transfobic) content. I follow a friend and suddenly we are out of contact because some entirely unrelated drama. And that’s how fediverse works by design.
it’s not just not caring. lemmy is currently not a viable alternative for e.g. reddit (there are no active conmunities for any of mine hobbies and posting to any of those that are here doesn’t make sense - there is nobody out here who could respond to a specific question about analog photography or something similar). fediverse as a whole will never reach the momentum of old centralized social media - by design. it turns out that having many small servers with different moderation policies is great for resilience but sucks for bringing people together. i found out recently that my mastodon server is blacklisted on many of mainstream ones not because there is some bad content there but because it federates with some servers that mods somewhere else consider harmful… and so i am missing large swats of content from those.
this is so underrated. even smart people can do stupid things. but that’s only half of the story… second half is culture (and here even european countries are not much better). in real life it is almost always worth more to look strong than to be smart. changing your opinion does not make you look strong - it makes the “other” person look like they’ve won an argument and that makes you look both weak (you didn’t stand your ground) and stupid (you didn’t know better). this is both entirely nonsense and perfectly understandable due to the culture (deeper level than propaganda). so nobody who makes it somewhere wants to do it. they will rather invent opposing false story and bend over backwards trying to defend it than concede a point to their percieved opponents… which brings us - here.
i don’t think i (or perhaps anyone) can recognize any single particular comment as being llm generated… but when the bots come in force it is still really easy. basically it boils down to this: many replies keep reiterating the same exact points in slightly different way with the same exact keywords. if you would use chatgpt to summarize each response you’d get basically the same thing from all bot replies.
the only way you get money is by randomly scattered gigs in between… you got a tip on your uber eats delivery! treat yourself to a breakfast.