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I’m not trying to be a troll. I’m not even trying to be pedantic. I just agree with the guy a couple comments up that we should refer to the thread based fediverse as “Lemmy”. There is piefed, mbin, and even the microblog based AP platforms can ingest content from threadiverse.

If we refer to the threadiverse as just “Lemmy” then the network is going to be known as a place for tech obsessed socialists rather than being part of the wider AP network

If you email someone on a different mail service and your message breaks the ToS of their mail service then you shouldn’t be surprised if your email address gets blacklisted.

Everyone knows that grandparents have never had sex and should be protected from such obscenity

Then you should expect enshittified experiences if you aren’t willing to pay for them

This isn’t my experience at all, maybe I just have curated my subscriptions enough that I don’t see that much. Or maybe it’s just because I’m so used to just tuning out socialist/communist comments on threads that have nothing to do with politics.

It’s also worth noting that Lenny’s algorithms sort by either top (which is just votes), hot (which is based on votes and comments which will surface contentious topics like politics more often), new (which is just when it was posted), and scaled (which is just hot but proportional to the size of the community so it will surface smaller communities more often).

If you sort by hot it’s going to give you a similar feed to Reddit. I prefer to sort by top by 6/12/24hr and by scaled personally.

Provider has the connotation of being a paid provider for services. While it’s a technically accurate analogy, I prefer the more abstract comparison of considering the fediverse a meeting place rather than a paid service since it’s a mostly volunteer and self hosted network compared to email.

I do agree that there are tasks that are good to offload to AI. I don’t believe that reading and writing should be. AI can be a great tool. Ironically, since you mentioned memorization, I can’t possibly retain 100% the information I’ve learned in career and so using LLMs to point to the correct documentation or to create some boilerplate has greatly improved my productivity.

I’ve used AI as a conversational tool to assist in finding legitimate information to answer search queries (not just accept its output at face value) and generating boilerplate code (and not just using it as another stack overflow and copying and paste the code it gives you without understanding). The challenge is that if we try to replace 100% of the task of communication or research or coding, you eventually lose those skills. And I worry for Jrs who are just building those skills but have totally relied on AI to do the work that’s supposed to teach them those skills.

If they can’t think or write on their own then what is their value? Why not just go straight to the LLM and cut out the middle man?

There is published research that using AI makes people worse at critical thinking. It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a legitimate concern.

I never got banned. I just left because the greedy little CEO is a liar that sacrificed the only thing that made the site good, 3rd party apps, on the alter of the almighty dollar during the API debacle.

To be honest the quality of posts, comments, and moderation policies had gone way down hill since at least 2020. The killing of 3rd party apps just gave me the motivation to finally leave

I don’t know if we want users who can’t grasp the concept that Lemmy and Lemmy.world are different entities and thinks that all of Lemmy should just be Lemmy.com

I think just having a Lemmy branded app with a proper UX is a good thing but let’s not just throw the baby out with the bathwater chasing people who just want Lemmy to be Reddit but it doesn’t make them feel yucky using it.