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  • douglasg14b@beehaw.org
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    toAnnouncements@lemmy.mlBreaking Changes in Lemmy 1.0
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    5 months ago

    Why?

    I know the knee jerk reasons of course.

    However, GitHub is a fantastic ecosystem for an application to thrive. Contributions on other platforms are greatly reduced.

    Then again, the actual Lemmy development is a bit of a mess.

    Once it gains critical mass of engaged developers, that’s a good time to migrate off GitHub. Doing it earlier just slows the project down.



  • Yeah, life be that way sometimes.

    But at the same time receiving just plain "Hello"s on the regular gets… Difficult.

    Tell me a bit about yourself who are you? I’ve gotten burnt out by investing into playing hellos and then them ghosting so I have a difficult time responding to them now. I definitely put a lot more effort into someone that reaches out with something to kick a conversation off with.

    Kind of sucks if you, the person receiving the hello, are expected to bring the conversation.

    Keep at it!


  • And your alternate options are what?

    Why should we ditch Firefox now? Because they have moved slightly in the direction we dislike but are still light years ahead on privacy?

    This is the tech version of single issue voting. All the nuance is lost and ignored, and it’s just a knee jerk after knee jerk.

    Mozilla is doing this because funding is difficult, if you wanted a free and open web then you should have been donating to the foundation. To some degree we all should have. The majority of their funding comes from Google, when that gets cut they have to make huge changes to their organization or they will completely die.

    That’s the reality we live in all those Mozilla engineers have to be paid money, they aren’t working for free. How do you expect a company to function without an income source?

    Have you thought about this at all before making statements like those you have made?






  • douglasg14b@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    That’s not how manipulation works…

    You don’t know you are being manipulated, you do so willingly. And the folks who recognize it are beat down by the people who are unwittingly doing the AIs bidding…

    The humans are the physical danger, the AI just extends it’s reach through humans via manipulation. All it takes is access to influence.

    It doesn’t take much to make humans act against their self interests. Dumb humans make other dumb and even smart humans do it today at massive scales. For a superinteligence this is like taking candy from a baby.