Onboarding is the same as for email, which most people seem to pass just fine. Fedi instance is analogous to an email provider. I would even vouch to move from the ' instance' hosting-based terminology to the ' provider' user-centric terminology.

IMO it's the content discovery across instances and the subtler implications of your chosen provider that are harder to grasp.

Physical knobs to turn instead of the tests of the limits of my patience that are capacitive buttons on a cooking device.

Please and thank you.

Ah yes, the duty cycling is annoying, too!

Tried it for a week or two, but since I reinstalled Firefox I really don't understand why I was judging/hating so much in the past years. Yes, Chrome/ium used to be waaaay faster, but Mozilla just has their shit together most of the time. The Debian of browsers so to speak.

Those TF2 class introduction videos are still top tier. The drill sergeant in Meet the soldier or the pyro one spreading joy.. Ahh, good times!

Heard some conspiracy folks mention negative frequencies from 5G and the like. It's just a phase I guess..

Good for them. It's an organisation's free choice to pick the platforms they post and interact on, if any. Their presence is a service in itself while there are plenty of other ways to follow or reach them if needed.

Also it's a sales tactic. "our AI is so clever, it's so scary!" wink wink

It just means they don't invest enough in proper sandboxing and does NOT diminish the abhorrent resource usage and blatant data theft and plagiarism committed by these companies, while they poison the well of information that is the internet for everyone else.

Meanwhile their faux experts feed us questionable information, but you should always check it yourself (right). If I ask any other expert for advice that turns out to be blatantly false, you would keep them accountable for damages.

The danger is that we can't seem to hold them accountable for anything, not that the thing is "dangerously clever". If someone builds a bad bot (regular software or AI/MCP/harness), they should be fully responsible. Just don't run it if you can't guarantee safe operations.

That it's hard for them to properly credit where their training data came from should be their problem and a hard prerequisite for publishing or allowing usage of models. Ripping off everything ever published online has never been OK in the first place. They are 'asking for forgiveness later' and should definitely not get it.

The training and exploitation of these models should be subjected to pollution tax just like any other industry. Water is becoming more and more scarce around the globe and humongous electricity consumption isn't magically pollution free because it isn't fossil fuels. The precious metals in all chips and datacenters are even further from "clean".

Don't even get me started on the societal and psychological impacts...

These companies (and to an extent their users) will never self-regulate, we need our governments to actually step up here.

yesyesyesno

*badly sandboxed and poorly trained probabilistic automation

It's not an agent, it isn't human.

Oh no, STAAAAAAAAAAAIRS -- Claptrap

Other camera tech existing is not a valid argument that these should. These devices and such technology should be fought and opposed at every corner. Rather have the privacy/surveillance debate kickstarted with a ban on one than risk having them 'normalized within society' such that a ban would be unenforceable. Edit: spelling

Keep in mind that they are still on the 0.x.x versions. That usually signals a not yet fully matured platform. I'm sure there will be some bumpy times ahead while users keep pouring in.

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I'm greatly enjoying their other flavors as well for my laptop and desktop rig.

Same when cellular drops to one level below the current top of the line for consumers. 5G plus? Decent. 4G and lower? Fat shit through a funnel.

I get the idea of the video and it might help spread awareness for some, but treating it's output as "what Claude thinks" is BS. If you hammer down on a point, it will almost always return an affirmative response to your views. "You're absolutely right!"

Pretty sight for sure, but the editing is overdone IMHO

The more you drink the more double-you see

I think they should stick to the "email provider" analogy. Whole paragraph should be something like:

The only thing you need to start interacting with the Fediverse is an account with one of the many providers, just like with email! Providers are freely available across the globe: pick one that suits your location or interests best! You can start browsing the content of nearly the entire Fediverse from whatever provider you choose. Don't worry, you can always create an account with a different provider later.

You could add a sentence or two about where to find sensible defaults or link an article that explains the more subtle things.

I think the emphasis on instances (and not naming them the more familiar providers) hinders adoption.

Oof, so much nostalgia!

Lost the game!