With this logic, any output of any pic gen AI is abuse

Yes?

True democracy, or majoritarianism?

A perfect breeding ground for growing localized power structures that aren’t bound to anything holding them back

Ok, read up a little about anarchism, and come back to the discussion. I can provide a starter primer, if you like.

To gain control over it as a society (i.e. democracy) is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.

The only control is the ruling class over the working class. I don’t think that’s a great achievement.

Anarchism is never an answer

This isn’t anarchism, as described. Anarchism, like actual anarchism, is the only likely solution, imo. No gods, no masters, no idols.

Why would a geologist spin up a Mastodon server, period? Or any other kind of social media server?

Any public facing IT system stood up in the higher ed system I am familiar with, requires IT support to be engaged. A part of that process is sending the request through a software review board, department’s IT, centralized IT, and then assigned to a project manager.

Otherwise, it would be considered a rogue service, and turned off at the edge, and core routers.

Using social media is far removed from operating your own publicly available social media server.

This coming from someone who is trying to get more mastodon usage in higher ed. Profs aren’t the ones who operate these things. Merely getting the approval to get the project started is an immense task.

Most scientists aren’t allowed to do stuff like that, or purely just don’t have the time.

Nothing like the very highly reliable pharmaceutical “science” done in the US, amirite?

Its not like we ever had “science” come from the US that said an extremely powerful opioid wasn’t addictive, amirite?

I suppose we’ll need to worry about that, once we get a net positive output from a fusion reactor.

Yes, it is probably the oldest or second oldest server suite in the fediverse (diaspora is maybe older).

It was an early supporter of statusnet and pump.io, which are the earlier versions of ActivityPub.

It originally used it’s own protocol to talk to other friendica instances, but a lot of plug-ins came out adding support for everything, even Facebook support for a while.

That’s how you win asymmetric warfare.

I am, because this government has decided the US constitution just doesn’t matter, and now, we have literal nazis running the government.

I stand by my people, not the government oppressing them.

Think of “Google News”, but for social media and RSS… Or Google Reader for all of those.

The point isn’t to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.

Thanks! I’ve not seen this before, gonna go look into it :)

Is DEI also vaporware?

Weird, because OpenAI used my work, without permission, to create an AI that stealing my job.

I mean, we all know Canadians see things wrong :P

What got us a second Trump term was the Dems acting like they are owed votes, instead of acting like they need to earn votes.

Like NNTP?