Once again, one of the very rare few areas where ai isn’t a completely shitty solution: tasks that are worthwhile and important, but that require labor no one is willing to pay for.

Others include translation, transcription, and image descriptions. Things people won’t put resources into but that should happen anyway

The only problem is that these have nothing to do with why massive companies are investing in this tech. If AI didn’t enable the equivalent of money laundering for intellectual labor, the billionaires wouldn’t give a shit

Not the person you replied to-

I don’t follow why it would be necessary, would you mind expanding on why its needed for decentralized interaction to function the way users would expect?

(Also I recognize that might be a huge can of worms, if you do mind thats perfectly understandable. You seem more knowledgable than myself and its an issue I’m very curious about, so it seemed worth asking :)

The problem is partially that bluesky isn’t really the Fediverse. It doesn’t use the standard, and isn’t truly interoperable. Accounts can be bridged, but that’s a hacky workaround, not actual intercompatibility.

And threads is run by a company whose human rights violations would take a week just to read out loud.

The idea that the specific platform doesn’t matter isn’t a blanket statement, it’s a description of being interoperable, nothing more. Bluesky isn’t truly interoperable, and threads is run by Meta who facilitated ethnic cleansing, mass rape, and the burning of whole villages in Myanmar despite countless explicit warnings that these things would happen if they didn’t take safety measures (not to mention all the other garbage Meta has done or enabled)

Interesting, thank you for expanding on how the spam issue has happened.

I’d not heard of MRFs before, from some searching around it would seem its a Markov Random Field model (in case anyone sees this and also didn’t know what it was)

Is there a reason why miskey users organized a distributed spam wave from Mastodon…?

But yeah, miskey is much more popular in Japan, whereas here in the west Mastodon is much more popular

Is it spam, or is it literally just people using the fediverse as intended, coincidentally in a language you don’t speak? Folks who speak a language other than english aren’t less welcome in the fediverse.

If it’s an issue because it’s drowning out all the stuff you can read and engage with, I think you can set a Mastodon account so you only see posts in a certain language. Other platforms may have similar settings

Oooh, I hadnt seen that one yet and have complicated feelings on that subject, I’ll have to go check that out! Thank you very much for the link :)

You opt in by following the bridgy fed account for your platform, so for Mastodon that’d be: https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy

There’s one on each platform, and when you follow it it’ll create you a bluesky/mastodon counterpart and send you the link to that bridged account

No, not unless the person whose posts you want to see opted into bridging their account.

If both parties bridge their accounts they can follow eachother, or if one person bridges their account others can follow them.

I don’t think you can see boosts of stuff not on your platform though, and I don’t know how interacting with a bridged account works if both of you are bridged. If only the person you’re following is bridged they definitely won’t see it, but I don’t know if that changes if you’re both bridged

I’ve really enjoyed reading her works! I follow her on Mastodon and sometimes she posts really cute pictures of her dog :)

Awww, thats genuinely really lovely, I’m so pleased to hear it’s gone really well for them

Gotcha. Yeah I choose to use Mastodon, I’d much rather support the open community built option than the option built by a company with a profit motive, I just try to stay in the loop about stuff

Thanks for the answer :)

Did something specific already happen with Bluesky, or are people just expecting it because VC vultures now have their claws in it?

Huh, learned something today, thanks for the explanation

Thats fair. I’d guess it probably helps get people to contribute, since it’s a community-run kinda thing

Thanks for the links!

Gotcha. I understand why they chose to do it that way, but I do kinda wish it was possible to just follow someone

Thank you very much for the link/explanation!

I was really surprised how much I liked some of the stuff that came on, there were some seriously cool tracks that played and I had a great time jamming out to it

Thanks for sharing links for folks to contribute!

The three music radio stations have been, but the words channel has not yet.

I’ll probably go take another look at adding it at some point but it seemed like a pain on mobile

Thats honestly fuckin dope. I use google home automation for helping manage a medical condition and at some point I really wanna switch to home assistant