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That's backwards. Not wasting your limited time on this planet on a social media site should be the premium feature. I mean, you could do it for free too but almost nobody does.
Fascists see a community threatening their power, they send in the oligarchs to destroy it. This was always the plan. Same with Reddit. Fediverse is where it's at. We all saw how the attempted Freenode coup went. That garbage human wasn't fooling anyone for even a second. Dude never had a chance.
"everything I don't like is fascism"
I hate Elon but come on man, what is this tinfoil hat-level conspiracy
That's by-the-book gaslighting. Fascism has a definition in the dictionary and thousands of years of specific examples of how that definition came to be. When someone's actions fall under that definition on an extremely consistent basis, the word is 100% appropriate. "everything I don't like is fascism" is, literally, a phrase ONLY fascists use.
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I think it's important to remember that these companies DID NOT CREATE THIS DATA! They are protecting things that are not theirs.
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Great for the fediverse! I suspect that these changes to twitter and reddit are mainly a response to the growing hunger of generative artificial intelligence companies who are hoovering up data, basically for free. Change is never easy, but i'm optimistic that this is the break open source and federated communities needed to start taking off. I hope people can see the value in decentralizing and help support these open source projects financially so that they can really start to scale. The reality is, scaling is expensive, and we all need to help where we can. These Ai companies will not hesitate to suck up federated data also. If we want to live in an ad free world its gonna cost us.
Question: Can’t AI companies just as easily Hoover up language content from the fediverse? Or is it something that we just kind of accept but don’t care about since it isn’t eating into fediverse finances?
I would assume it's even worse for the fediverse considering the limited resources we have to run the servers. I wonder how the devs/server owners will handle this.
I don't think (completely wild guess here) AI content crawlers should have any more impact than the dozens and dozens of spiders that make up must of my own site's traffic.
The impact was magnified for Twitter because it generates so much new content every second. That wasn't an issue when Twitter had a nice, properly cached API and it shouldn't be an issue for fediverse instances either because we have RSS and caching and we're not so stupid as to turn those off. Like, what kind of moron would do that?
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Assuming said data scraping is a real concern for both Twitter and Reddit, are Fediverse servers at similar risk from scrapers and various automated API hits? I don't really know enough about networks to answer.
I think the data scraping problem is more of an opportunity cost (they think AIs should pay them more to use their content) than a concern for the traffic they account for. If traffic, and not profit, was a problem, Wikipedia would start saying they can't support AIs either.
You make a great point about Wikipedia - it's laughable to me that scraping is actually why Twitter is doing this. They're just trying to find a convenient reason for why they're failing that doesn't stem from their own incompetence.
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Wonder what mental gymnastics the fanboys/chuds are doing to spin this into “yes, Mr. Musk you are so smart, please piss on me next”?
This only makes sense when you understand that he’s intentionally trying to destroy Twitter.
But why? He spent so much money on it, why would he want to destroy it?
IIRC, causing its value to plummet is the easiest way for him to get out of this whole fiasco via bankruptcy (remember, he was basically forced into buying it). He played a stupid game and won a stupid prize and now he’s desperately trying to find a way out.
I still need a little guidance here so I can understand. Let's say Twitter did go bankrupt, then what would happen? Would Elon be off the hook for the billions of dollars he owes to his financers?
I don’t recall the specifics of the one article I read about this, but yes, I think being able to declare bankruptcy gives an out for at least some of the debt. I believe there was also some way that doing so protected Tesla but can’t recall exactly how that worked.
This just doesn’t seem like a “he’s just bad at running a company” situation. A company of Twitter’s age and maturity could have run itself for quite some time if Elon just let it continue on. He’s doing this intentionally for some self-serving reason.
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I am a dull and simple lad, but I've held a belief ever since Musk purchased Twitter he did it to wreck the platform. I'm still undecided if he's just looking to liquidate its assets, or drive off reasonable users so he can turn it into his personal soapbox.
It's extremely expensive way to do it for him though if that's his plan. I think he's just incompetent...
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It must be nice to be able to waste 44 billion dollars and not miss it.
I could live comfortably for the rest of my life on 1/10,000th of what Elon spent.
I hope the thought of literally being history's biggest loser (in terms of dollars) eats at him.
I'm sure many royals from history are bigger financial losers in real terms