@pch I'm also having difficulties imagining what a much improved V2 could look like.
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These features seem marginal at best? What am I missing?These features seem marginal at best? What am I missing?
Apple Intelligence is now live in public beta. Here’s what it offers and how to enable it. | TechCrunch
Starting Thursday, those who are enrolled in Apple’s public beta program will be able to experience the generative AI-fueled platform the company has been talking up since June.
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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We really, really need "remote likes" in the Fediverse.We really, really need "remote likes" in the Fediverse.
Today's use case: We post the #FediForum recordings on PeerTube. The preview gets rendered very nicely in Mastodon, and people are tempted to click on it.
The video plays, and I like it. So I'm looking for a Like button -- but I have to sign up for a new account first??
/cc @benpate made that point at FediForum, too, in his demo!
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Silicon Valley is sometimes pretty rough. But in comparison to Russia’ Wildberries e-commerce company …Silicon Valley is sometimes pretty rough. But in comparison to Russia’ Wildberries e-commerce company …
“Wildberries co-founder and ex-husband of Wildberries co-founder & CEO Tatyana Bakalchuk, along with 20 to 30 armed accomplices, conducted simultaneous armed assaults against two Wildberries offices in Moscow City.”
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Sometimes, I find myself feeling burnt out about the #Fediverse.I'm referring to the version of tech adoption cycles commonly associated with McKenna and Geoffrey Moore's books Crossing the Chasm etc.
Also, this is a multi-sided "market", so the model applies differently on the user side and the developer/vendor side. It's possible we are further along on the user side than the developer/vendor side.
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Sometimes, I find myself feeling burnt out about the #Fediverse.@deadsuperhero In spite of how many years it has been, we are all still in the very early phases ("tech enthusiast") of the tech adoption cycle. What we see in the #Fediverse right now is straight out of the textbook: lots of tinkering, bandaids, very geek heavy, no money.
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When people say "the open web"...@fds So in your view, the "open web" is long dead and it's better that it is?
"Worse experience" compared to what?
(I don't understand the "hustle for money" part. In that era, how did anybody make money with their sites? Ads were very rare and paid subscriptions unheard of as I recall...)
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When people say "the open web"...@spinbackwards Can you give some examples for that decentralized town square and how they take content to some other sites?
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When people say "the open web"...When people say "the open web"...
... what does this mean to you, exactly?
I'd love a broad range of answers including "I have no idea" if that's what's true for you.
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This is the first straightforward spammer / data collector that I've seen in the Fediverse.@thisismissem I remember back in the day when I got the first OpenID-authenticated spam. I thought it was a great indicator of market adoption
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This is the first straightforward spammer / data collector that I've seen in the Fediverse.This is the first straightforward spammer / data collector that I've seen in the Fediverse.
Am I late to the party?
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"The Fediverse is no longer individual apps ..."The Fediverse is no longer individual apps ... it's an integrated system ... how do we make an integrated system work that works like any other social network but still functions in a distributed way".
@benpate in his #FediForum demo.
Could not agree more. Not simple, on a technical, product, and particularly organizational level.
How do we do this?
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Incredibly unpopular opinion: Mozilla might be correct to spend time and resources focusing on AI. The cat is out of the bag and providing data-safe, secure access to models to head off handing the keys to the future of the software industry to OpenAI ...@ben Mozilla has a successful track record of building products that aren't the browser of exactly zero.
Not for a lack of trying. Remember Persona? IoT version 1, 2 and 3? Mobile OS? .... All of them were easier than successfully building a post-browser browser.
Of course you may be right, they may try this like they tried the above. With, I would expect, the same outcome: lots of wasted scarce cash, and nothing to show.
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Incredibly unpopular opinion: Mozilla might be correct to spend time and resources focusing on AI. The cat is out of the bag and providing data-safe, secure access to models to head off handing the keys to the future of the software industry to OpenAI ...@ben Disagree The Fediverse is browser-adjacent. There are amazing things one could do if one put "social" support into the browser, particularly in a privacy-protecting manner. It's made for Mozilla whose major product is a market-share-losing browser.
AI is not browser-adjacent, and it's unclear what Mozilla can do as an org that others can't do just as well or better. Also, it requires major number of billions to compete, and Mozilla can't raise those.
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Mozilla, unfailingly, will make the wrong strategic decision every time.Here’s more but no explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq
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Mozilla, unfailingly, will make the wrong strategic decision every time.@n3wjack that was email but here is more: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq
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Donated to IFTAS.Donated to IFTAS.
If you care about the #Fediverse being a better place, consider donating, too. Their work on Trust & Safety for the Fediverse is unmatched and so important.
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Mozilla, unfailingly, will make the wrong strategic decision every time.Mozilla, unfailingly, will make the wrong strategic decision every time.
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Politicians often start with:Politicians often start with:
"Let me be clear: ..."
Is that some kind of magic incantation that gets the likeability up or recall by the audience, or why is that?
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Watching the recorded presentation about Mastodon adoption by German public broadcaster ARD and NDR from #berlinfediday, by @millerntorpiratHe says that nobody on in the #Fediverse is interested in posts about soccer in Germany.
Ha!