@Foritus every half decade, the finance people in Silicon Valley try to reinvent the computer, the Internet, or money. NFT they tried to reinvent money. A lot of AI is re-inventing computers:

"look! it can do a task! it just thinks about it really inefficiently and then it's done!"

or the Internet:

"look, it can spit out facts about anything! (because we trained it on the entire Internet) if you need something it doesn't have? well, good thing we came up with this super new Definitely AI™ feature called uhhh "Looking It Up". The AI searches the web for you, and gives you the answers. This is definitely a breakthrough in AI technology, and definitely not just a web parser shoving a few websites into the model for it to read."

@pikhq this has bugged me since the beginning. The protocol, if anybody has seen it, seems almost intentionally designed to be difficult to work within. The amount of different micro services, and the difficulty of setting up a full tech stack alternative to the bsky servers is ridiculous and seems cleverly intentional.

They didn't want decentralization, that would've made it harder to bully trans people and antifascists from an institutional level.