Lemmy.ml was/is my first foray into the whole thing and the dogma/irrationality/hivemind has been really disheartening (for a community I had figured would filter people like that out due to its’ size relative to reddit or other normal websites). Thanks for this, i’m going to try it.

Why did you choose such a clickbatey title?

Reddit, AI, can it all just die

Elon likely never read Foundation, and it’s frustrating that he’s getting credit for it.

I do firmly put that on the people not doing their research, though. We should absolutely be bullying the shit out of people for being disingenuous in this way.

Thank you so much for taking the time to lay that all out for me. I’m sure you’ve had to do it once or twice already, lol. I’ll absolutely start curating the stuff I’d rather see. Maybe part of the friction I’m feeling is a procedural rub with marxists/leninists, and it would make sense/be hilarious if I’ve wandered into the middle of their space.

Do you have any less political servers you’d recommend? Besides the servers/services you recommended? Or is it largely an issue with the server i’m on?

That you know of

I think this is a little bit outside of the ask, but I’d like to find a place that is both positive and relatively politically neutral.

Part of what drive me here was that the tip of the iceberg (facebook, instagram, tiktok) feel so deeply infused with ads/ai/influencers that even the content I like is likely deceitful. This bums me out and makes me not want to use social media.

Places like reddit and any of the #chans have less of this, but the baked-in politics in both make of them bum me out.

I like that Lemmy feels like it’s actual people, but the politics and negativity can get to be a little much for me. I don’t like to think about things I don’t like, and while I can the value in being informed of things that I may need to act on, I don’t think that constantly bringing up things we take for granted is helpful.

What I want to be doing is getting to build and be a part of something positive and purposeful, something people do because they’re passionate, something that is so cool that the shitty stuff outside kind of pales in comparison. I’ve met lots of cool people on here that are that way, and I’ve been able to filter some of the negativity out by ignoring posts that I know will bring that out in people, but still, it would be cool to see something like that.

I hope it’s as simple as finding the right instance for me.

Damn, that’s terrible. Thank you for the links (although I’m not going to read them all, to preserve my sanity)

Interestingly, I just heard this on another lemmy post about alcohol. It wasn’t well received there, lol

I’m not very familiar with this stuff, but it sounds terrible. When has this happened in the past?

Google being a little removed and saying it “detected abnormal traffic coming from my IP” (I was googling something I google often) was my last straw, which ultimately led to me being here and degoogling.

Memes aside, my friends and I genuinely would have murdered these things with rocks had they come out before we’d turned 18.

What are you trying to accomplish with this comment

The enemy of my enemy is not always my friend

does that fuckin weenie still train bjj or was that just for show

missing this_tbh

This sent me for a loop.

I don’t mind older stuff- my car is from the late '10s, and was a few years old when I got it, but blew my mind compared to my last car from the mid '00s. It has a back up camera! And even though my car is now nearing 10 years old, my experience hasn’t changed. I’m still driving on mostly the same roads using the same method. And, when I have to get a new car, I’m sure I’ll marvel at remote start or whatever.

But what’s a bummer is the idea that someone else can decide that the hardware is no longer adequate- that “you must have the newest experience”. I simply don’t want that. Yes, it’s annoying that my phone has to be plugged in to access carplay, while new cars have it over bluetooth, but I didn’t even know it was that way until I got a rental recently.

So for AI, i’m okay with some shortcomings, because I can get to know the software and work with it, and if the shortcoming is a show stopper, then I can seek to upgrade or just not do what I was trying to do with my older gen AI.

But alas, the number must go up so the shareholders can rub their stocks or whatever

I just wish we could invest the time/money/resources into compressing AI and making it smaller and more efficient. I’d so much rather have a somewhat capable AI that can be run locally and offline, to outsource menial tasks to like alphabetizing spreadsheets and so basic image modification, than to have to upgrade my hardware constantly or use cloud based SaaS and/or have newer models that are more accurate in their predictions.

Of course that assumes a lot of things, like the intent to help people and not make money. Maybe someone in the Linux-sphere will make something.