Well said! On one hand I suppose I am “happy” to see people questioning the value of these bots, but assuming it “understands” anything, or has “motive” is still giving them power they don’t have and IMO, leaving the door open to allow yourself to be fooled/manipulated by them in the future.

It seems so obvious to me that Google’s switch to LLMs is to prevent adblockers and yet I rarely see that point brought up.

LLMs cannot lie/gaslight because they do not know what it means to be honest. They are just next-word predictors.

I think the ads are terrible too, but it’s a fool’s errand to try and rationalize with an LLM chatbot

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I don’t think the people watching this show are going to be the ones paying for paramount plus subscriptions

No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.

Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.

Bluesky is not decentralized.

You are correct. The term is called “openwashing”. Now and then bluesky employees cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.

“[deleted]” means a user removed it. It’s probably users who nuked their accounts (I’m one of them!)

In case anyone else was wondering, “shut down” here means someone put some metal over it and hired two airline pilots security guards to watch over.

BlueSky is centralized.

It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms

Absolutely I was not trying to take away from your point! Cory Doctorow actually recently wrote a good piece on Wikipedia that you reminded me of.

I agree with your overall point, but Wikipedia has a singular mission. Social settings can have wildy different missions from shitposting, to hobbies, study groups, to support groups, etc. There is no singular moderation ethos that can apply to all of them, that’s why decentralization is important in social media.

We want to algorithms to work for the people, not have people slaving for the algorithms.

If a grandmother had wheels would you consider her to be a wagon?

No, please respond to the gif. If my grandmother had wheels, would she be a wagon?

BlueSky is centralized. Describing it as “federated” is being (intentionally, in your case) misleading.

ok and bluesky is literally centralized

More avoidance. You astroturfing?