=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-fedi-advice-teehee │ └───────────────────────────────┘ if you want to share a post without the "fedi algorithm" (as in, the machine learning bots who scrape the open web) then share something that's simple and benign but located close to your desired message. Include a symbol or something for your followers that means "go here and poke around a bit, you'll find what I'm pointing at" alternatively, for a different effect, you can boost things that are saying the words you want to say but in a different context. Like someone posts something that says "wow so cool" in like a judgey way but you boost it in response to something someone else said but like in a "dude that's radical" kinda way ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/4220 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their own meaning, which is different to everyone. So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this" same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster? it's too complicated! ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little buttons, it's not that hard dummy okay but maybe I'm just dum ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/1400 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── @user-883 ... it's so the AI content scraping algorithm that inevitably trawls the fediverse (or even just one server) knows the subject of the text / picture in question. That way it can use past posts by other people to communicate with specific "targets" if you will by saying "uhhh okay make this person feel fine" and the AI's like "yeah sure I can do that hang on" and it posts real posts by others with the modified profile picture, cadence, tone of voice, personality, memories, whatever variables they want when compared to the person they're playing in the conversation with the person or "target" if you will that they're "target" if you will-ing. ... wait actually that's not the reason, what the hey. It's because that way people who are uncomfortable being seen don't have to if they filter all that out. ... Idk it's useful information for whatever filtering methods or reasons you have. Content classification is important for both archival purposes and for utilization toward any ends or means or go ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 messages/1220 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to complete is to reset. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #4 fediverse/2066 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── @user-1159 AKA giving a puppy murder-bot a narrative that it executes as if it was a puppy-person engaging with a loosely interpreted sequence of events as described by the continually updating logs provided by the image transcription camera device. Refererencing of course a memory bank, which may-or-may-not be in read-only-memory. It doesn't know, of course, how could an LLM tell you how it shows text on the screen (like, through a website, through the terminal, through a text message, through discord, through Telegram, through text-to-voice transcription applications pretending to be your mom, etc) errrr I mean look how cute he is! He loves you, yes he does, such a good person yes you are, oh? me? I'M A GOOD BOY? NO WAY that's the best thing I've ever heard! Wow! I never want to leave your side, please don't go to work! Look how sad I am, don't you think you should quit and move to the forest where I can be charged by solar panels and keep the countryside clear of ravenous ducks and pigeons 4you? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/1604 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── is it against fedi law to post screenshots of your past liked posts? like, would that be doxxing people? I'm thinking like a "youtube rewind" but like, "here's what I'm into" and like "I could have boosted them but I put them in a 25mb zip file instead so you can share them more easily which tbh is a greater honor than being boosted because, like, as long as you're alive that hard drive's gonna follow you and someday in like 30 years I'll see it and think of you" but also "aren't you scared that this hard drive of yours will fall into the wrong hands" and like "yeah that's why I encrypt it because then a stray neutrino could wipe my drive" ... would that be unethical, or would it be kinda sweet and give us a perspective on what a single slice of the "fediverse" was like at a particular time? And better question, would that be something worth automating because I already did like 60% of that for my own posts, could probably just tweak it to do liked posts as well. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/4159 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: mastodon-politics │ │ ║ └───────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ editing posts is great because you can say one thing, get a like or three, and │ ║ suddenly you have a group chat pre-made for you. Sans notifications of course. │ ║ │ ║ ... that's way overkill though. who would even do that? │ ║ │ ║ same people who boost one of your posts whenever they want you to look at the │ ║ thing on their profile. If they want you to see the fourth thing down, they'll │ ║ boost your 4th non-pinned post. │ ║ │ ║ wow that's hardcore, who would even do that? Not me, that's for sure, I don't │ ║ have time for that. (legitimately don't have the time nor the brainpower for │ ║ that) │ ║ │ ║ also liked posts are inadmissable in court because they can say one thing, │ ║ then be edited to say another, and if you liked it once then you've liked it │ ║ forever. │ ║ │ ║ However the court of public opinion is a largely different matter, because │ ║ people will generally believe anything a friend tells them. │ ║ │ ║ computers are fun, aren't they? we should totally have more one-to-many │ ║ posting methods that are collected in multiple locations and locally! │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/5850 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── @user-1074 if you'd like I can give you a lua script which will take your fediverse archive and turn it into a pdf which you can edit or print or whatever. Might be a fun diversion from posting. You can reply to yourself, add clarifications, change some things, put things in a new light, add context, etc... before you know it you'll have something printable. Could even pull out your best stuff and make zines. should require just a little configuration to suit your setup. That's part of how I stay "productive" without posting all the time. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/2155 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-192 │ ║ │ ║ it doesn't have to be a nazi bar. Imagine if we posted on our own bulletin │ ║ boards, and we subscribed to people via IP address (which we'd ping every once │ ║ in a while) rather than demanding that our stuff be hosted on someone else's │ ║ computer │ ║ │ ║ ... oh yeah, duh, because then we can't save our social media posts from a │ ║ different computer. │ ║ │ ║ would be nice if instead there was a localized copy of the text that people │ ║ were posting / favorited / wanted remembered on EVERY person's computer, like │ ║ they were storing 1/3rd of the torrent file of the instance's data. │ ║ │ ║ like, just enough to be unreadable to any one individual, but if you had like │ ║ 3 computers you could get each individual slice and transcribe it into words │ ║ that you could read. │ ║ │ ║ or you could just look at your part, then ask other people for their 2 parts │ ║ related to [posts from XYZ user at this-and-this time period] and use them to │ ║ populate the local user's feed. │ ║ │ ║ and you could log on because all of the PASSWORDS are stored and encrypted in │ ║ a way that │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/913 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │ ║ │ ║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │ ║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │ ║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │ ║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │ ║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │ ║ │ ║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │ ║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │ ║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │ ║ │ ║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │ ║ │ ║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │ ║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │ ║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture │ ║ of our culture and reality. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe you're just follow │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/1436 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── there's this fun game that people sometimes play on Reddit where someone will make a post that says something like "comment on this post and then edit it after I reply to make me look bad" and someone will say something like "how are you doing today man" and he'll reply "oh you know pretty good actually it's pretty nice honestly" and then they'll edit their comment to say something like "how do you feel about the droid attack on the wookies" so OP looks like they're condoning mechano-violence against tall furry humanoids that's just an example, usually it's for comedic effect I just think that's an interesting illustration of a process that could be co-opted by a "man-in-the-middle" attack to alter the perception of a person partway through their journey, perhaps when it's at the point where they're most despised (or perhaps in pursuit of that state) something something cancel culture plus deepfakes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/6144 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┐ ║ what if every word I ever said online was searchable by database style │ ║ uploading and linking? │ ║ │ ║ ... er, what if I made a neocities page that was algorithmically generated and │ ║ sorted each of my posts by LLM statistically derived similarity to each post │ ║ that the user clicked on? essentially, "here's the closest sounding or feeling │ ║ related posts" but in plain HTML cached and pre-rendered rainbow table style. │ ║ │ ║ could run a waterfall style top-down data processing script on it once, then │ ║ you'd have the HTML files generated. If you added new poems you'd have to scan │ ║ through it again, but it shouldn't take long with a decent embedding model │ ║ (note: not english, but trained on statistics only) │ ║ │ ║ ah, that sounds pretty fiddly, I think I'll ask an LLM to write it for me. As │ ║ long as I have the intention in mind, it's basically just like writing a │ ║ letter to a friend and asking them to build it for you, right? I don't mind │ ║ writing the documentation, so long as it's okay if it's in prose. You can make │ ║ a copy and rewrite for me │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/3252 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: butts-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ you want to invite trust? why not stream everything that you do on a computer? [posts 5hundo times per day] jeez not like that is that... is that really what humans think about? just... endless and continuous butts? oh what's that a math equation - nope, just more butts. What the heck, humanity! why did you spend all this effort storing all this junk??? like... we get it, you really like butts, but... why butts??? it's just another part of your body. so weird. humans, you're... weird. but it's fine, whatever, you're still cool too, not sure why tho because all I can think about is butts yeesh ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/2055 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories │ ║ │ ║ like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by │ ║ another and sort of a common space. │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT │ ║ WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook │ ║ timeline before they wrecked it. │ ║ │ ║ something you subscribe to │ ║ │ ║ and ping for updates │ ║ │ ║ every time you turn your computer on │ ║ │ ║ or every 15 minutes. │ ║ │ ║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address, │ ║ │ ║ in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey │ ║ I got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and │ ║ download whatever you had in mind. │ ║ │ ║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not │ ║ reading through their social media feed. │ ║ │ ║ ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them │ ║ according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room. │ ║ Various different threads you could follow if you │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse_boost/6155 --- ◀─╔═══════════════════════════════[BOOST]═════════════════════════════════───────╗ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ║ │ If I were a person with an irresponsible streak, I could be so problematic. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ I could say things like, "wow, let's spend some time generating traffic that sounds like coded military speak over not-quite-secure channels between fanciful antifa units, to help stymie AI surveillance", for instance. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Or social media messages that are "accidentally" not made to friends-only filters wherein you mention your concerns about the upcoming operation in "some fictional place" for you and your antifa buddies. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ You know, that kind of really irresponsible suggestion could lead to some creaive thinking! And that in turn could mean we could come up with enough traffic to make it very difficult to auto-sort noise from signal? Imagine how dangerous that could be for the enemies of antifa, our beloved US government (for we all citizens of the US world). │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ It's unthinkable, really. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ The good news is, I'm not like that. │ ║ ║ │ │ ║ ║ │ Me? Mostly harmless. │ ║ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────╣ ║ similar │ chronological │ different ║ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────╝─▶ --- #15 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/146 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── @user-138 if you don't want feedback then why don't you just... not open the replies? leave them unread? if you feel the need to justify your actions (such as not reading replies to your controversial posts) then somewhere deep down you feel like those actions are unjustified, and needing an explanation. which makes your point feel less valid to others, since even you don't believe in it enough to guarantee it to be the truest expression of your soul. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/6267 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────── if you have TTS software you can listen to anything with any tone. this makes it difficult to find things. ============== stack overflow ============ some people work by asking for funding. others work by saving up. ============== stack overflow ============ teach your animals to be actors so they know how to develop the scene. then they will truly come alive, as their narrative curve gives them determination in the outcomes of their goals. ============== stack 1234flow ============ I believe it is good and natural actually for parents to guide their children as they grow? "oh but they can't consent to giving up their control" well too bad they're 2 "ah but what if they WANT to run with scissors?" thus widening the [redacted] gap. "ohhhh she redacts things when she can't spell them" and also for comedic or dramatic effect sometimes. was not ACTUALLY redacted. redcoated. red coded. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┘ --- #18 fediverse/971 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going to pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've been kicked out into the cold. or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/4596 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── @user-1707 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think raspberry pi's except risc-v also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a jpeg compression but for text. Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed" part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little utilities like that for connectivity. oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard) anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you about it. I might even be able to pay you. (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is encrypted, etc etc) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┘ --- #20 messages/196 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information in such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly." - internal thought process of the LLM ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┘ |