Yeah the comment looked like any other post that account made and as you said, LLM generated crap. Full of mid sentence emojis, hashtags, and structured like a summary.

I was going to let the comment pass thinking its probably from Mastodon or something because of the hashtags and style. But no, the user is from a lemmy instance.

Don’t forget open cloth

Agreed, it’s a good book.

My personal criticism is just that the author, at times, fails to look at the topic objectively due to his own personal grudge with the four from the time he had his own company.

But it doesn’t ruin the book, the book is indeed good.

E: And good point about the downvotes

I had a similar experience. Some niche local groups only exist on facebook and that’s why I had an account that I never deletes since making it like 15 years ago.

My feed was filled with sketchy ads and recommendations so I didn’t use it. Kept in contact with some old friends via messenger and only used groups pretty much.

That all changed few months ago when facebook locked my account for “suspicious activity” and showed me a prompt after logging in stating I need to upload a government issued ID to unlock my account. I checked and made sure this is actual facebook and not some fake site I accidentally would have somehow entered.

“Suspicious activity” was me logging via the web browser on my phone using another teleoperator while traveling.

When I returned from traveling I suddenly was able to unlock my account with just my email. Took the chance and deleted my account.

Facebooks groups are amazing, but yeah, the price is your privacy. And I don’t mean just email and your personal preferences, shits wild what they know about you and what/how they gather information about you.

If you are interested in reading about it:

The book “The Four” from Scott Galloway. I personally didn’t like the authors bias on the matter but he summarizes it pretty well how/what facebook knows about you.

Edit: why would people downvote OP’s question? It’s a good question imo.

Appreciate the thorough explanations, thanks!

The last part is fucked up, yikes…

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense for targeted ads for sure. Still a bit worried about hashtags being used for ads since I follow a lot of hashtags on mastodon and usually have a quite a nice “organic” feed compared to other social media.

Might be a stupid question, but can’t threads just post ads as “posts” via activityPub? On mastodon they would appear as toots?

Was just remembering how reddit introduced ads as basically promoted posts and recall facebook doing the same.

I sure fucking hope not.

Off-topic but don’t want that link go to waste: your link is broken! (very cool project btw)

I would have given it a go, but reading their terms it seems they don’t like people having non-foss code there, and I would like to have both my foss and non-foss projects together on one platform.

I’ve been thinking about self-hosting forgejo though!

Edit: I did move from GitHub to GitLab, but don’t really wanna stay on GitLab either.

Of course not,

with the new encapsulator all you need is to reconfigure your turbomutator to allow electrostabilizer executable to directly read instructions from your self-hosted AI model.

Who even uses python to scrab anymore? Install podman dude.

Same, I have tried DDG every once in a while but kept going back to google. Now google search doesn’t quite give me relevant results anymore and all the AI crap just takes all of their effort to work on search itself.

Been using DDG for a few weeks now for personal and work related stuff - quite happy with it.

Don’t know whether you mean that as a joke, but I can tell you it is very real thing world wide still.

Rip

Wait what? What happens in jan 2024?

Edit: ah, unity’s new install based pricing.

I know that long time ago this was one of the things that freaked me out. I went into google account privacy settings and there is a lot of info about you. It really creeps you out when you see info from years ago.

Yup. I had never heard of the fediverse and so glad I got introduced to it with the added benefit of many others doing so as well (so there is content and activity here).

Can vouch for this method, I did something similar and just updated my email on services in order of my entries in password manager.

Lots of drama, sometimes defederations would make headlines on world news.

Thanks for telling me about Voyager, I feel like I finally found the app for me!