[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

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[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

And while Bluesky eventually dealt with the issue,

There were complaints so they patched the system. Again, another nothinburger... Always coming from the same poster.

“40 minutes after it was reported, the account was taken down, and the code that allowed this to occur was patched.”

Nothingburger. Stop spamming please. This has nothing to do with tech. You cannot just post anything you want and ask people to leave if they are not happy.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Told ya.

Now that the insurance have lifted the taboo of stopping insuring people for climatic reason you will see more of those action everywhere.

https://kbin.social/m/news/t/188498/-/comment/763082

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I still remember this guy from Florida in the show of Bill Maher, telling him that global warming was fake, that he could see from his house in Florida that the sea level wasn't rising. I remember him holding Bill by the arm telling him "trust me, it's all fake". Dunno if he was a governor or somethin'. If someone remember the episode, please post it.

What this clown did not understand is that the problem is not the sea level reaching your house, it's the risk seen by the insurance company. Any climatic event added to a higher sea level and boom, your house is flooded, even if 3 days later the event is gone and the sea isn't in your house anymore. It will happen every year, become a systemic risk and you won't be insured anymore. Even if your house is dry 350 days a year and only wet 15 days a year. Even if the sea level is below your house.

It has some similarities to Brexit. During Brexit a lot of british people living in Spain believed that they would not be affected by Brexit and that they would be able to keep living in Spain. Until they received a letter from the government telling them they had to leave.

It's all virtual until the administrative machine start to walk over you. In their case it's a letter from the insurance. It's gonna happen everywhere.

Now that the insurance have lifted the taboo of stopping insuring people for climatic reason you will see more of those action everywhere. The region around the lake Mead (Arizona, Nevada, California) will become really funky in term of war for water.

And of course the fees induced by higher premium of crops insurance will be added to the price of food. Everybody lose.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

We have a bigger problem and it's popularity. Some instances will want to become as big as possible, for resell value.

So they will be encouraged to let the maximum of people registering a new account, including bots and spammers. Because they make the numbers and they start the snowball effect.

Didn't you all looked a the most populated instances/magazine when you registered magz, and you didn't care about the mags with zero activity? Well, you are encouraging the process in a way.

People will be reluctant to defederate or to ban popular magazines from other subs. So the float of spammers is unlikely to stop, because the person who makes the decision, the admin of the instance, will welcome them. And you won't ban the instance or the mag.

We have to become more like a club.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

You can block this domain by tapping the domain name then click on the block symbol

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you are subscribed to the same mag 3 times, well it's on you. You want volume you have it.

What is possible is to filter through a script and only show the local one.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

All you wrote is just an ad to purchase more stuff and to give zero thought about the consequences.

8, 9 and 10 years: you dislike change, you are incredibly broke or you only have a smartphone in the first place because it’s basically necessary to function in modern society. Plus you get to be smug about being green.

Your whole thing is about money. If you think that all this technology, energy, CO2, minerals come for free then you are in for a very bad surprise.

You are paying the price as we speak, through the inflation of all the other products you pay for every day. You will pay all your life for your privilege of falling for an ad campaign. Less crops, lower quality of crops? -> You will pay good money because of it. Less irrigation water? Same effect. Insurance companies in general will increase their premium non-stop because the risks will be everywhere. All this money comes out of your pocket.

A phone is not a necessity to function in a modern society, and green people are not smug. You talk as if you were out of the game, as if you were not impacted. Are you from the northern hemisphere? Don't you feel the heat these days?

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[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

With such a mass of users, all those people now only have one thing in common: they are consumers. That's the only point of the platform, grouping these people and feeding them ads.

The comments are merely a distraction between two ads.

This is why there is a good reason for keeping a little barrier of entry to the fediverse: this barrier is also a barrier to advertisers.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

As if OpenAI was run by people not caring about copyright.

[-] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your first comment and it is to support OpenAI.

edit:

Haaaa, OpenAI, this famous hippies led, non-profit firm.

2015–2018: Non-profit beginnings

2019: Transition from non-profit

Funded by Musk and Amazon. The friends of humanity.

Also:

In March, Open AI co-founder Ilya Sutskever told The Verge that the company had been wrong to disclose so much in the past, and that keeping information like training methods and data sources secret was necessary to stop its work being copied by rivals.

Yeah, he closed the source code because he was afraid he would get copied by other people.

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The upvote system is way too rudimentary to work efficiently. The upvote incite people to post to become more popular, not to post more interesting content.

One metric is not enough, the upvote system combines both "funny" and "interesting" in the same metric. Soon it's the funny content that is pushed to the top, because it's a more common characteristic. But this is how you get memes, emotional and basic screenshot of tweets to the top of the frontpage. And this is probably what you don't want.

So either we add more type of votes,for example two arrows, like an arrow "interesting" and another arrow "funny" or we get rid of them, leaving only the "report" button.

Get rid of reputation too. Some people are already chain downvoting in rage. What good do you think will happen out of a reputation score? People will just spit on you. People are emotional, don't put a gun in their hands.

"The downvote is useful to get rid of antivaxx"? You have a report button for that. And while the downvote button gets rid of antivaxx, it pushes memes to the top, destroying the platform itself. The benefit of the downvote button doesn't compensate for the flaws of the voting system.

The best way for an antivaxx to get his content visible? It is to get blocked! If he is blocked he cannot be downvoted anymore afaik. So it's all good for him. Even the block system doesn't really work as intended and has nasty side effects. Because yes, you won't see it, but other will, and they will adhere, and they will upvote and post more antivaxx stuff, and inspire more antivaxx people.

And I'm not even starting with the bots and scripting systems, which will detect who downvoted you and will "revenge downvote" for you. Do you want all your post to appear with a starting minus 5 attached to it because you posted about veganism 3 months ago? That's what you will get. All it takes is 5 people who don't like the way you talk, and a script. And all your posts will go down the drain as soon as you post them.

--> The system need either higher granularity or we need to get rid of the voting system, and keep only one button: "report", with a mandatory 60 characters comment with it. <--

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For the last few weeks we enjoyed a much better content on kbin than we had on reddit for a long time.

But it is coming to an end as more and more people will be leaving reddit for kbin. With them the trolls, the spammers and the ultrapoliticized americans. They want to push their ideology and there are legions of them.

Even though kbin is not american anymore, the sheer numbers and obsession of american people with their politics will quickly outnumber any other content here. The voting system will make your post about pertinent news sink to the bottom of the frontpage. Lost under the "Trump he said/she said" routine. The same thing that happened on reddit will happen on kbin: people will come for the politics and then spread in others magazines for a quick, uninteresting meme reply.

The articles on the web are still designed to infuriate the readers, so they react and create free ragecontent, and they will do it here. They will get infuriated here, just the same as they did on reddit. This mechanics hasn't changed by changing platform.

The NSFW content is coming, the political memecontent is coming, making the idea of federating this instance with any respectable other pole of interest impossible. If we are to name the federations, this one will become the greentext type of federation. Not a dangerous anarchist federation but certainly a pariah one.

That's why if you really are interested into discussing with people, you would be very well inspired to do it on another instance than kbin.social. Do it on a local instance, where the news are directed by people of your geographical region. Your default instance can only be a regional one, I can't see a global instance like "kbin.social" being not raided by americans with a political agenda. But they won't step a foot in madrid.social or berlin.social. In a sense it's even better if kbin.social can polarize and hold the kind of population which is hypnotized by number and popularity. The right usage of the fediverse should be to pick a local instance near you and only subscribe to niche magazines in different instances based on your specific needs.

The fediverse project will be tested with very high numbers of users now, and I don't think that the implicit federation model which is to accept everything by default and block some will survive the waves of political trolls. The federations will split and specialize, and will defederate en masse. The most sought after federations will become the technology ones, which will probably become picky on the creation of random magazines, like news and politics, since it attracts the worst in content creators. The kbin.social experiment will lead to a more strict moderation model in other instances and probably different way to count votes. I don't think that kbin.social will ever come back from being a perpetual testbench of a social platform.

So don't fall in love with your account on kbin, instead you should get ready to jump to another instance which will inevitably open on a server near you.

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Someone here already has 12 subs on his own. We would be inspired to avoid the era of the power mods. Moding should involve an interest, not just collecting rings of infinity like it's a gold rush. How can it be a good practice in the long term?

mentalhealth

shitposting

showerthoughts

linux_gaming

Stoicism

Philippines

philosophy

ArtificialIntelligence

Futurology

copypasta

singularity

aitools

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Your list of subs, in a grid make sure you set it to private

https://kbin.social/settings/subscriptions/magazines

The list of all subs, in a column, sorted by subscribers number

https://kbin.social/magazines

Your Inbox

https://kbin.social/settings/notifications

Your home, list of posts in your subs

https://kbin.social/sub

All, all posts from all subs

https://kbin.social/

All, sorted by new (aka "chaos")

https://kbin.social/newest

you can search by tags: https://kbin.social/tag/tech

You can see who upvoted and downvoted your comments in the activity tab of the "more" button.

You can block a domain like you can block a user. Either through the url::

Http://kbin.social//d/nypost.com

Or by clicking the domain name and then click the block button.

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