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1. tayledras (tayledras@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:22 JST tayledras

   ❝ Today, in much of the online world, algorithms calculate “feeds”—a term suggesting that people are cattle, and not free-range ones. ❞

   — Jaron Lanier, Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
   The New Yorker, February 2024

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   Jaron Lanier and Tristan Harris were right, but not fully about the scope. It's not corporate social media that will direct what we say and think, but AI and LLMs that will influence how we think and share online.

   • ≠ (amerika@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:19 JST ≠

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     @prettygood @tayledras
     
     forums > social media
   • prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:19 JST prettygood

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     @amerika @tayledras now that, I miss. Forums have been subsumed by Discord of all bloody things, and that is one of the most depressing states of affairs. Anonymous image boards are still around, but they can't ever replace a crusty old phpBB running on a freemium box somewhere and posting whatever nonsense one pleased.
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   • tayledras (tayledras@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:20 JST tayledras

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     I need to leave Facebook and exit Threads and devote my time to better contributing to (and curating) my Fedi experience.

     I still miss Internet Relay Chat and Google Wave. Fedi hasn't quite scratched that itch of allowing real-time communication of massive amounts of information and real-time feedback. Its short-form posts and format is still a different way of thinking and a guided discourse.

   • prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:20 JST prettygood

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     @tayledras I deleted my facebook account during the pandemic. Take from that what you will. I have only briefly regretted it, in the sense that now I live in a small town wherein a Facebook page is a kind of a defacto website for small businesses, so I wound up re-making a very bare account for that specific purpose.
     
     IRC is still going, obviously not as crowded as it once once, but I've used it every single day for the past... 19 years? Something like that?
     
     I've devoted countless hours to de-Googling my digital life and curating replacements for certain things. If you're ever looking for some input in that realm, I'm happy to share what's worked for me.
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   • prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:21 JST prettygood

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     @tayledras fedi is such a breath of fresh air wherein you can dictate exactly what you see and don't see, and after living in this world for a while I have no idea how anyone functions at the whim of an algorithm.
     
     I remember... 13 years ago? When facebook started to do away with the "just a chronological feed" thing, and people were outraged. And eventually the rest of the internet followed suit. Thankfully, there are ways to break free.
   • tayledras (tayledras@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:37 JST tayledras

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     Which IRC server are you on? Which channels do you frequent?

     I was Promethh on EFnet, usually on #ascension and #spirituality from 1992 through 2016.

     The dissolution of EFnet and many moving to online social media sites/services pretty much killed all the smaller channels except #helpchat and #linux.

   • prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:38:37 JST prettygood

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     @tayledras I mainly use Libera, a backwater old fandom server, and one for a private torrent tracker. Most of the channels related to my sphere of interest (gentoo, various other software projects, networking, pleroma, baseball) all call Libera home.
     
     In the past I spent a lot of time on Rizon, freenode (RIP), servers I can't even recall anymore... man I sat here trying to remember some of them too. Oh well, anyway.
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   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:39:39 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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     @prettygood @tayledras I wish i had more of my frens on irc, i have a good number of them but not the ones that are still on shitcord.
   • Mitch Conner (mitchconner@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:41:20 JST Mitch Conner

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     @dcc @tayledras @prettygood what server are you on these days I tried to go on the usual server recently and it was offline
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   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:42:37 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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     @mitchconner @tayledras @prettygood Its both my server but the most active one is irc.husk.site (moths)
   • ≠ (amerika@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:42:50 JST ≠

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     @dcc @prettygood @tayledras
     
     Discord is spyware
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   • prettygood (prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:43:13 JST prettygood

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     @mitchconner @dcc @tayledras libera is where the action is at these days, by all accounts.
   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:43:13 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

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     @prettygood @mitchconner @tayledras He's talking about our little fedi group chat.