That is a better word. It’s not that I disagree with the comments, I’m just over it. It feels like automated bots at this point, and contributes nearly nothing to the discussion.
I think I get nearly as “scared” as my cat when I do that. There’s something about the cat going into pounce mode on me when I can’t see it that triggers my fight or flight.
During setup, Atlas pushes very aggressively for you to turn on "memories" (where it tracks and stores everything you do and uses it to train an AI model about you)
I wonder, do memories really train a model about the user? Or are they just shoved in the context window strategically? Possibly selected by a small performant model in the background based on relevance to the current context window?
Training millions of mini models on people would be really interesting, and I don’t think I’ve noticed anything saying that is happening, yet. Even tho it seems like a logical idea.
I don’t consider the PDS stuff to be fully federated. That’s just keeping your data on a different server, as far as I understand it. To be federated it needs to be a full interoperable server like mastodon, or lemmy.
You should also be able to host a non federated instance, or one with limited federation.
If they have moved past that, and I can open a server and have people sign up for accounts, then I stand corrected.
I wonder how often they clean stuff up like this. That crossed my mind earlier, I’m sure there is a bunch of “dormant” software that could be cleaned out or made optional in some way.
But the making it optional idea is easier said than done. Especially from a standpoint of discoverability and usability.
I hope it changes too.