Blocking them means I'm interacting with their posts which is exactly what I do not want to do
Quinnel
joined 1 year ago
I suspect this combined with a lot of more technology inclinee users jumping ship for places like this has left a vacuum to be filled by people who oppose the blackout or otherwise don't care.
That means running the fediverse on non-proprietary software, not forcing the end-users to interact with conspiracy theorists
I use it for programming too, but programming is deterministic -- if the code doesn't work, you know what the AI gave you is incorrect. I had a question regarding which types of glasses to get for an astigmatism recently which maybe the AI could help me with, but I don't necessarily trust it to give me the correct information when I then need to go and gamble my money on purchasing the correct product for my needs.
In a scenario like that, having recommendations from lots of different people is far more useful. They can tell you about those unique idiosyncrasies of reality that aren't able to be found on the Wikipedia page or outdated news article the AI is referencing to build you its answer.
The structure of lemmy would filter out the good from the bad, wouldn't it? That's what the votes are for.