Plus I didn't want to risk my employers Facebook App being in limbo if I got banned, so I left Facebook alone, never to return.
Facebook trying to police the world is the only thing keeping me away, if I can use the platform and post meme comments again, maybe I might reconsider, but I doubt it. Reddit is in a similar boat. You can get banned, but all the creepy pedophile comments from decades and recently are still up no problem.
That kind of burning down is classified as "mostly peaceful" by mainstream and AI.
OPs comments read like we're describing something the SS built (Godwin says hi).
IF I ever had to go to FB for anything, I'd probably install a wall-removing browser extension. Mobile app is of course out of question.
You’ll probably find you can no longer make an account. I’m in the same boat as you (not used and haven’t missed in over a decade), however, my partner needed an account to manage an ad campaign for a client and neither of us were able to make one. Both tried a load of different things and, ultimately, gave up. Had to tell the client what they needed over a video call
What are the alternatives for local groups? I've recently seen an increase in the amount of Discourse forums available, which is nice, but I don't think it'd be very appealing to the average cycling or hiking group.
There is still plenty high quality stuff too if that is what you’re looking for. If you want to roll with the pigs in the shit, who am I to tell you no?
… to be subsequently drowned out by AI “copies” of themselves, which in turn are used to train more AIs, until we don't have a Dead Internet¹ but a Habsburg Internet.
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"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first [...]
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
— from MacKay's book, 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'
Personally I have tons of creative ideas which I think would be interesting and engaging but for which I lack the resources to bring into this world, so I'm hoping that in the long term AI tools can help bridge this gap. I'm really hopeful for a world where people from all over the world can share their creative stories, rather than being mostly limited to a few rich people in Hollywood.
Unfortunately I do expect this to end up being the minority of content, especially as we continue being flooded by increasing amounts of trash. But maybe that's just opening up the opportunity for someone to develop new content curation tools. If anything, even before the rise of AI stuff there were mountains of content, and we saw with the rise of TikTok that a good recommendation algorithm still leaves room for new platforms.
The content you're enjoying today still exists, but it's a needle in a haystack of AI spam
¿Porqué no los dos?
There’s also the option to move on from Netflix if you don’t like its content
Maybe they’ll go outside.
Between those bots (for nefarious, mundane, or marketing reasons) and previous attempts at automated bots, “broad” internet discourse was already ruined. Now people recognize it. This will have the effect of pushing communities back to smaller sizes, I think this is a good thing.
People shouldn’t have trusted all the things they read online from untrusted sources in the first place.
I'm excited about the former since AI has massively improved my productivity as a programmer to a point where I can't imagine going back. Everything is not black or white and people can be excited about one part of something and hate another at the same time.
If this is what productivity looks like then I'm proud to be unproductive.
Dead internet theory is very much happening in real time, and I dread what's about to come since the world has collectively decided to lose their minds with this AI crap. And people on this site are unironically excited about this garbage that is indistinguishable from spam getting more and more popular. What a fucking joke