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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself.

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  • I feel like there was a YouTube Premium series that paid homage to the original story, too, but I don't remember the name of the show.

  • Twitter sees largest user exodus since Musk takeover

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  • and try to effect the conversation,

    And these people are insane. Elon has total control over the narrative, and the people that believe they can "throw sand in the gears" with some quippy xeets are delusional.

    At least they're moving, but fucking Christ; far too many people have main character syndrome.

  • Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself.

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  • When do we get the Home Assistant who falls in love with its owner and tries to kill their partner out of jealousy?

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  • "States should decide everything!

    ...no, not like that!"

    (Note that hypocrisy is fully expected, but they don't get a pass from me pointing it out simply by virtue of it being their expected MO).

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  • Yes. Isn't it fun having a perpetual 54yo edgelord, who's mentally 14 and stuck in the late 90s, in charge of an entire governmental department? 🙃

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  • Hashtag follows were a game changer for my experience. The people that remember to use them usually care about what they're saying, too, and seem to be more invested in the Fedi way of doing things.

    I also recommend https://fedi.tips/ for getting started.

  • How Top X Rivals Fared Since Elon Musk Sparked Twitter Exodus

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  • For anyone here who wants to switch to Mastodon, I recommend checking this guide first:

    https://fedi.tips/

    And don't expect it to be Twitter. Expect better.

  • Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does

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  • Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it's not Twitter

    And that's honestly a good thing. We don't need Twitter clones, because as much as people remember the Twitter of yore fondly, the people in charge made some really terrible decisions for their users, and a lot of people have forgotten that.

    Mastodon is and should always be distinct from the Twitter-likes; if it starts to be a little too similar, then it's probably lost its way.

  • AI Slop

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  • AI creates fiction that sometimes intersects with reality, in the same way that Legends & Lattes has a few real-world things like coffee shops and lattes, but the things like orcs, ratkin, succubi, and magic that comprise the rest of the details are still currently fiction.

    People just need to learn to assume LLMs are always writing fiction with a handful of details borrowed from real life.

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  • Joke's on them! My instance doesn't save downvotes. /hj

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  • I've been on Mastodon for a long time, and I haven't seen a single Nazi. If your Mastodon is "empty or full of Nazis," my guess is there's one of four things going on:

    • You aren't following/followed by good people. Use hashtags, boost toots, follow people back, follow accounts that try to share interesting accounts or hashtags.
      • A subpoint here might be to make sure you're liberally applying the ban and mute functions for bad actors. For especially bad ones, report them.
    • You aren't following hashtags. Similar to the above, there's no algorithm. You decide what your feed looks like, and following hashtags for subjects you're interested in will help you find good people and good commentary (this is much healthier than letting a dumb algorithm decide what you'll find "most engaging," anyway)
    • You are looking at the Local or Global feeds too often. Depending on your instance's federation rules, you are more likely to find those aforementioned "bad actors" here, since these feeds are not curated.
    • Your definition of "Nazi" is the one that means "anyone left of Marxists," or, "supports Democrats," and if so, that's watering down the meaning of the word and giving cover to the real Nazis.

    Whatever the case, if the people you're seeing aren't sharing your ideals, pick a different instance or spin up your own, and/or do the things I suggested (insomuch as they are relevant to you). My Mastodon feed is filled with artists and just generally positive people trying to do some good in the world.

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  • Good. The more people leave the cesspit, the better off they'll be.

    Inb4 some speciously-reasoned lawsuit from the "Department of Government Efficiency" comes for BlueSky alleging anticompetitive practices or something equally ridiculous.

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  • Discord at least has community moderation tools. Xitter is just a town square where all the Neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists get louder megaphones than everyone else.

    But the "my friends are there" is such a weak argument, imo. BlueSky exists. Spoutible exists. Mastodon exists. If they're IRL friends, they can just regroup elsewhere. If they're only online friends, you can make new ones pretty easily.

    "My friends are there" is just a tacit admission that they don't mind sharing space with Neo-nazis.

  • Moveable wifi antenna [solved]

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  • Any omnidirectional antenna should be fine. You'll want to either get one for each antenna connection or find one that has the same number of connectors as your card.

    Generally, longer antennas mean more sensitive reception and probably better transmission.

  • X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election

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  • I know I can't ever go back. I donate to my instance, and I actually feel good about it, because I know it's not going into the pocket of some faceless corporation who's beholden to its shareholders instead of its customers.

  • X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election

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  • Hardly. The Fediverse spans multiple apps and services, and it existed before Elon bought Twitter and it will continue existing regardless of what the billionaires do, because it's not run by just one person.

    The whole point is decentralization, not growth, so unless the billionaires can take out every server hosting an instance, the Fediverse isn't going anywhere.

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  • Yeah, but you're not a shitty billionaire who's directly contributing to and accelerating the decline of humanity, so you get a pass.

  • Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

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  • You mean head of DOGE? Because we live in the timeline where a terminally online edgelord with the brain of a 14yo and the body of a 54yo makes meme government agencies.

    Anyway, get your passport now. They're good for ten years, enough to last at least through the tentative end of Trump's circus.

  • Bitcoin hits record high as Trump vows to end crypto crackdown

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  • But that's not as exciting as promising to end something that's barely happening in the first place.

    People elected Trump to be entertaining, not for sensible governance.