Kichae

She’s in her 40s, and she looks like she’s in her 40s.

Because people have been brainwashed into thinking that wealth=intelligence, and so they’re reliant on the wealthy to solve complex or complicated problems.

one CEO of a tech recruiting company suddenly found herself being inundated with Slack messages from employees that they’d clearly generated using AI, leading her to implement a new policy that strictly forbids the practice for internal communications.

One anonymous CEO got so fed up, they threatened to “fire the next person” who blasted them with unedited ChatGPT slop

“You weren’t supposed to send me all of this slop! You were just supposed to sell it to paying customers!”

They don’t. Not anymore, at least, if that was a thing. I’ve been mentioning the Fediverse there for years. Comments generally get reasonably high views, but low engagement because people on established platforms rarely want to do anything to fix their issues.

Those of us still with active Reddit accounts, now might be a good time to gently encourage people on Reddit to check out the Fediverse. Suggest your favourite Fediverse website by URL (don’t just say “Lemmy” or something; we know people trip over themselves to hate on the whole choosing a website thing).

I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea to mention the state of smaller or niche communities, but it feels more honest to me to just say that we could use more people here who are willing to build an alternative, and not just scroll one.

Fediverse severs have a bit of a natural size limit, which means site-level moderation is easier. Admins also aren’t motivated by ad impressions or vanity metrics that impress investors, so there’s that, too.

It doesn’t remove bad actors, of course, and there will be no lack of bad admins, but it’s still more friction than exists on corporate sits.

Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.

It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?

Governments work for whoever acts like their bosses. The people don’t act that way, and oligarchs do, so here we are.

Don’t worry, this isn’t something they actually believe. They’re just trying to craft a narrative. I worked there for 5 years, and in that whole time nobody on the publishing end of the company said anything that even hinted at them giving a shit about fun.

“We’re the front page of the Internet!”

“No, not like that…”

The reasons why the wealthy like liberalisation matters, though. The reasom the wralthy want more wealth matters.

Money is power. The wealthy are competing to have the most power. Eventually, that turns to taking control of the state. So, the wealthy will back free trade and deregulation right up until they, personally, are in a position to attempt a coup. After that, regulation and trade barriers work for the particular rich folk who have taken control over the state.

Techbros killed me, Mal.

It’s probably not cheaper than just shooting orphans for sport.