I think i may need a break from mastodon.
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@johncarlosbaez @aeva @lritter
only one a day?
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@johncarlosbaez @aeva @lritter
only one a day?
@johncarlosbaez @aeva @lritter
i should make a feed of cows every fifteen minutes
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@johncarlosbaez @aeva @lritter
only one a day?
@gloriouscow - each day it's a new species, most of them you'll never have seen before, and they are described sometimes quite gloriously.
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@gloriouscow @lritter i don't know of any hash tags for those but i'd be astonished if there weren't any
@aeva @gloriouscow @lritter I don't follow birds, but they come to my timeline anyway and the hash tag seems to be... # birds .
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@aeva @gloriouscow @lritter I don't follow birds, but they come to my timeline anyway and the hash tag seems to be... # birds .
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@aeva @gloriouscow @lritter I don't follow birds, but they come to my timeline anyway and the hash tag seems to be... # birds .
@aeva @gloriouscow @lritter
Oh, also:
‘bird of the day’ @ birds @ moresci.sale -
@gloriouscow @anton @aeva imagine if it were all like "nah you can't follow birds anymore nowadays it's all pensioners posting audrey hepburn lookalikes from the 60s"
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@gloriouscow @anton @aeva imagine if it were all like "nah you can't follow birds anymore nowadays it's all pensioners posting audrey hepburn lookalikes from the 60s"
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow blocking keywords any use?
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow Something I hadn't seen anyone suggest: you don't owe anyone to follow them or see their posts. It's *your* online experience, not theirs. "You make me feel bad" is reason enough to block/mute/unfollow someone who raises your cortisol, even if you don't think they're a bad person.
Additionally, I don't know what server software your instance is on, but Mastodon has... well not "good" per se, but definitely workable personal moderation tools. Keywords and hashtags can be blocked with reasonable accuracy. (1/2)
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@gloriouscow Something I hadn't seen anyone suggest: you don't owe anyone to follow them or see their posts. It's *your* online experience, not theirs. "You make me feel bad" is reason enough to block/mute/unfollow someone who raises your cortisol, even if you don't think they're a bad person.
Additionally, I don't know what server software your instance is on, but Mastodon has... well not "good" per se, but definitely workable personal moderation tools. Keywords and hashtags can be blocked with reasonable accuracy. (1/2)
@gloriouscow But honestly, just following the right people and hashtags is doing wonders for avoiding current dramas. Literally every major Fediverse drama since I joined I have found out about not by seeing the drama itself, but by seeing people *complaining* about the drama. And just as well now, I don't really see anti-AI posts that much, I'm chilling over here with my bunch of queer artist and hacker creatures who might mention it from time to time but overall just... continue to do their own thing.
So please, take some agency over your online experience. There's no algorithm in here to feed you only things that keep you watching ads for as long as possible. You have to put some work in yourself in order to create a nice experience, but I promise - it's worth it. (2/2)
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow I feel much the same way, but I don't feel I need to take a break at this time.
Part of this is that I perceive the endless (and somewhat pointless) anti-AI posts are a reaction to AI being thrust upon people against their wishes. "Screaming into the void" in a way.
The other part of this is potentially a little "herd signalling", saying loudly and proudly that they're part of the anti-AI herd and feeling community about that.
In my particular situation, it's pleasing to see that I'm not alone in my feelings about this, as I'm pretty much the lone AI Luddite in an office of people pushing LLMs. And as much as I've made my bed and will lie in it, it is pleasing to know that I'm not the only one out there in a similar situation.
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow please take care! It's really difficult to avoid this topic lately
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow honestly, whenever something like that happens to me i'll just put a filter on the term for a while. helps a ton
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow Sounds like it's been really frustrating for you.
I know post filtering has worked really well. I filter content which is likely to impact my mental health. YMMV
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space i am trying to boost less ai posts but not always succeeding. anyway a break can be good for mind and eyes and posture
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow filters
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I think i may need a break from mastodon.
it is not an exaggeration to say that the majority of my feed is now just various anti-AI posts.
the people pushing AI aren't here. they are not on your Mastodon instance. When you post about how terrible and ignorant and stupid they are they do not see it, and it's not like that sort of thing persuades anyone even if they did.
I want to keep up with the cool stuff you are all making and doing. But I realize I am not entitled to just pick and choose from the things you find important enough to share, so I am not sure what else to do when I find that reading my feed no longer improves my mental health.
@gloriouscow May I recommend creating a filter? I filter a few things. I find that it works very well.
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The one thing that probably has the most influence on our beliefs about people are our personal relationships with people different from us, and realizing that they are still people at the end of the day. I don't know why it seems to be a particular quirk of the human soul that we often need a personal example before we can feel empathy, but that seems to just be how it is.
I know people that use Claude or other tools, and that is costing me a lot of mental energy and quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. I know some of these these people are talented, passionate, intelligent people who got into coding for the same reasons we all did. We can believe they are ethically challenged, perhaps. but we are all flawed, messy creatures who make daily ethical compromises in some way.
I'm really honestly surprised that more people here don't personally know anyone that they hold in any regard whatsoever that use an LLM because it seems like I'm the only one struggling with trying to understand why people I know and respect can look at the ethical costs and shrug. (meanwhile vegans are like "lol, first time?")
I know what I'm seeing is the result of a lot of frustration and hopelessness. I don't personally know what to do about it, either. But I'm just worried that we never will as long as we abandon nuance in favor of a perpetual fediverse circlejerk.
I've pretty much disowned my family for their beliefs. I am not ready to give up a good chunk of my friends as well. I can't. I can't just sit here angry at the world, utterly alone.
@gloriouscow @cr1901 I hear you, and thanks for posting this. I am also jaded from this.
I know people who use these tools, and am finding the flattened argument against them hard to sit with. In particular, two friends who are severely dyslexic have found some solace in chatGPT as an aide. They are aware of the problems, but are also aware of their systematic exclusion based on ability. This is not as black and white as people tend to make it on here.
