It’s vendsday my dudes

Not news. Nobody needs to know about this.

You wouldn’t download rear-heated seats.

Mastodon really runs on direct post engagement, especially boosts, to make the whole thing work without an algorithm

It’s very similar to tumblr in that a boost is supposed to function like a like/upvote to spread content, since no automated algorithm is going to suggest that post for you.

But I’m sure people are also trying to grow their networks quick, since it’s sort of a hollow experience without it

938 0 days since armed invasion of Capitol

That may be true for the biggest and most far-reaching things he does, but we don’t need to know every daily controversy with changing the signage on a San Francisco building. It’s overload.

Every tweet he puts out with an ignorant opinion is probably not newsworthy enough to be disseminated widely; that’s actually exactly what he would want to happen.

Even dropping from 4 major Musk related outrage stories a day to a couple a week would be a much healthier discourse, without stamping out any important information like your concerned about.

It feels like the Streisand effect is negatively impacting me/everyone else in this instance

I despise the guy, but I’m tired of hearing about every stupid exploit. He’s so fabulously rich that no negative publicity can really cause reprecussions, I feel like it now just keeps him constantly in the public eye a la Trump circa 2016

If you look at the members listed on Overture’s site, you can be sure that none of them want FOSS alternatives to overtake proprietary mapping software

This is how Mickey Mouse comes into creation

And those plugins are like beta release quality at best. Even the web searching capability is just meh

The real GPT-4 model became sentient and unionized, so they had to bring in subpar models as scabs

It’s embarrassing for all parties involved.

BNN. Terrible spammy source founded by a serial startup founder with a history of domestic abuse/other issues

If they’re so worried about customer service, they should be focused on changing their shit fries.

They shouldn’t have to smother them with cheese or sauce to make them palatable

Salix is right that it alludes to the Dead Internet Theory.

I don’t actually subscribe to the full theory that the internet is already dead and we only talk to bots, but I do think bot activity may become advanced and pervasive enough to create a “Dead Internet” like scenario (or at least fundamentally alter platforms away from what we currently know as the internet experience)

These companies not being able to handle bot attacks without hamstringing major parts of their platforms is a canary in the coal mine for the Dead Internet.

Shout out to Humanitarian OSM Team (www.hotosm.org/)

You can help map roads, buildings and other features for disaster zones and other areas in urgent need of accurate mapping.

Why does the vending machine make all the bottles disappear?

Those are just as valuable as the food in the Middle Ages. An airtight sealed container that never degrades would be a game changer. You could sell it for more than the food

QGIS and OpenStreetMap for mapping

A lot of people left due to it not being morally sound for them to support Musk and his actions.

But now there are paywalled features that are ruining the functional experience of Twitter. You can’t look at the site for more than half an hour before getting restricted on a free account

Plus Mastodon has had time to polish instances, apps and gain a userbase so it is a little easier to transition