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WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English2·14 days agoYeah, I’m basically envisioning something like that. An old school web index composed entirely of human-curated human-made content. How to actually fund such an effort? I have no idea. That’s why I started with the the premise that I somehow had millions to throw at the project. It would invariably be very labor intensive.
It would probably have to be subscription funded. Maybe there’s a way to pull it off, but getting people to pay for subscriptions for services like this has long been fraught. Surveillance capitalism was built because donations don’t cut it, and no one wanted to spend a few bucks a month for Google or Facebook access.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English5·14 days agoTruth. We need to massively regulate social media. If I had my way, I would prohibit any large social media site from offering any kind of content stream algorithmically targeted to a single user.
This wouldn’t be a restriction on speech. You could still have your website and publish whatever you wanted. You could still have sites where people can upload user content. But something like YouTube would look far different. YouTube could have one main page of content they show everyone, but they couldn’t have individual feeds for individual users. If you wanted to find content not on the main page, you would have to find it yourself. You would have to find channels, subscribe to them, share recommendations with friends, etc. If people want to create their own curated content feed, that’s fine. But they have to be the ones that do it.
We don’t even need to ban social media. What we need to completely ban is individually-targeted algorithmic content. That’s what’s lead us to the insanity we are currently experiencing. And this should apply to everyone, not just kids. If anything adults need this more than kids do.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English6·14 days agoRandall published this on February 20, 2008.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English6·14 days agoThe real problem - how do you deal with bots? Sure, we could start a new nerd movement to say, revive web rings and personal websites. But with LLMS and other AIs, how do you keep that whole ecosystem from just being flooded with AI content?
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English2·14 days agoThe nerds got their wish granted in the most monkeys-paw way possible. For 20 years or so, computer nerds were trying to tell everyone about the internet. They saw the potential and what it could be. They were early adopters, and they wished that everyone could appreciate this wonderful thing they had discovered or helped invent.
Well, they got their wish…
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English1·14 days agoThe idea (from around 2010ish) was that every platform is an app and every app is everything. A company buys up other smaller companies until you have a payment system, a marketplace, a VOIP system, advertising, job posting boards, 4 different waya to share media, etc. etc.
You’re describing AOL. This is nothing new. And just as AOL failed and faded, so will the social media giants.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I the only one who thinks social media has destroyed the spirit of the internet?English61·14 days agoIf I had a lot of money I would fund the creation of a new search engine. It would operate entirely on a white list model. And every website on it would be reviewed by people, for people. No posts from any social media site would be allowed; only small webpages. To be featured in the engine, sites would have to have verifiable human origins. So personal blogs made by real people or small businesses with actual physical addresses that can be fully verified in the real world. In order to get your business featured, you would have to apply, and someone would physically have to visit you in order to verify your authenticity. Oh, and any website that uses AI in any form would simply be ineligible to appear on the search engine.
Yes, this would result in a drastically reduced pool of potential sites, but what remains would be absolute gold.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto pics@lemmy.world•U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) waiting outside unmarked vanEnglish4·15 days agoSomeone should dress up like ICE themselves, and disappear people like this. When they insist they’re citizens, just call their documents fake and usher them into waiting vans at gunpoint. That’s the only way this madness will end. It’s only when the lives of ICE agents themselves are at risk from this that thing have a hope of changing.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What would it take to make someone the best girlfriend ever ?English1·18 days agoWhy did you break up last time? Have you put in the hard work of figuring out exactly what went wrong last time, how things will be different this time, and why you’re even trying at it?
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Fediverse@lemmy.world•It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0English7·1 month agoTo me, the hardest part seems to be - how do you keep your small web from being infected by AI slop? Currently the slop spammers aren’t focusing on these small web rings and web 1.0 communities. But if they did start to become popular, the AI slop would inevitably follow.
Perhaps such sites need to run on a 100% no-advertising model. Individual hobby sites or those supported by subscriptions and donations only. That would cut out most of the vast, vast majority of the slop. AI slop currently can’t produce content that people are actually willing to pay to subscribe to. If sloppers can’t bring in revenue via ad impressions, they won’t have any incentive to create slop AI 1.0 sites.
Yes, it’s all explained in the religious hymn “Black Hole Sun.”
I wish for another wishing well.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something terrible that happened to someone terrible?English16·2 months agoI can confirm. I was there standing in the corner watching. But in a strictly nonsexual way.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's something terrible that happened to someone terrible?English19·2 months agoThe Adjuster remains at large.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some things people think are cool but really arent?English41·2 months agoI was going to find some extremely old racial epithet that starts with an N, so obscure it wouldn’t offend anyone anymore. But I decided I don’t want to Google “obscure ethnic slurs” today, so I decided to skip this comment.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Dude, what's wrong with Reddit?English2·3 months agoMake your own rose water from locally obtained rose petals. All rose petals are eventually going to fall on the ground and decay. Any toxic compounds in the rose petals are going to end up released into the environment and washed into the watershed eventually. If you use them for bath soap, you’re just temporarily using them in the path they would already take if left to their own devices. If anything, you’re decreasing the contamination to the environment, as anything that goes down your shower drain will be filtered by the municipal water treatment plant before being released into the watershed.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Dude, what's wrong with Reddit?English892·3 months agoIt’s all just bots masturbating other bots over there.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksto Buy European@feddit.uk•Does Canada’s future lie in the European Union?English21·3 months agoYeah, I don’t think the EU would be able to provide serious military assistance if there was ever a war between Canada and the US. But that’s no different from Canada’s position in the British Commonwealth. Canada would join with the implicit understanding that the EU security guarantees would be largely symbolic. Canada joining the EU would all be about the common customs union, the free movement of people, etc. In this context, geography is less important than having countries with similar political systems and development levels. It’s hard to see really poor countries being admitted to the EU, as that would cause a flood of immigration. And of course there are standards in regards to democratic systems, civil rights, etc. But Canada should have no problem meeting those requirements. And Canada would fit well within the range of EU countries in terms of GDP per capita. There wouldn’t be some vast exodus of Canadians moving to the mainland Europe if Canada was admitted to the EU.
Buenos Aires. Went there alone for a few weeks when I was 24. Didn’t really get to see many sights though, as I was there for surgery. Would like to be able to visit again someday and actually be able to take in the place properly. Same goes for Bangkok.