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It's really sad when no one is saying "just talk" 😂

Dunno about this particular area of PA, but the areas I am familiar with... the answer is meth.

What can be done? Smarter people can probably list plenty of things. But in the end, it's a constant race trying to out compete. And with LLMs/AI, you can literally train it on the system you want it to overcome with that express purpose and let it work out the "how" and you're back to square one again.

I think it can best be put in song

Or put another way: how do you make a bear proof trashcan that can defeat a bear but not the dumbest of humans?

It's also literally the motto for the Pontiac Grand Prix.

"Wider is better"

Contact a legit organization like the ACLU and ask them for guidance. They can probably point you in the right direction.

"ah" is basically a gasp, so it makes sense that words for pain are basically an onomatopoeia.

Yeah, but what does matter is that I'm not talking specifically about the platforms, but the people running it and contributing. You've completely missed the point in a very human way, demonstrating one of the reasons why it's people at the core of the problem.

That's for perfecting illustrating what I'm describing. You think "this is it, this is the thing that's gonna allow humanity to become enlightened!". You're hung up on the product like a bunch of other people, and not looking at the consumer. Federation won't do shit to change human nature. That's it's own thing. Federation is just another social media tool in an already pretty large toolbox. You gotta teach humanity to work together, not just throw another platform at them and think that's the fix.

I never said federation was in itself bad. People keep getting hung up on that and nitpicking. Just saying that it's not the solution to humanities core problems that arise from our own instincts and behaviours. And that it won't spur any revolution. It might be a tool used by the revolution, but it, in itself, will never be the revolution. People will be the revolution.

All the people debating me on Mbins history and various software are not getting the point: PEOPLE couldn't agree on how to run the fediverse, splintering it into numerous groups(for better or worse). These same people won't agree on the causes or solutions necessary for a massive cultural revolution as well.

To put it another way: Xkcd comic on standards

The fediverse wasn't the solution to humanities problems. It was just attempt #284747737 or whatever. It was a bunch of high ideals about "if we give the power back to the people, this time it will be different!" while completely forgetting that reddit mods were just average people too until they became powermods and that whole system got corrupted.

The fediverse will never bring about the revolution. The only thing that can and will is the will of the people.

It's named Mbin after Melroy. Dude filled Lemmy and Kbin with bitching posts for months. First it was the instance he worked on not listening to him so he started his own. Then it was people not joining his instance and only the "popular" ones. Then he got Kbin to agreee to let him work on the project and shit on Lemmy saying Kbin was the real future. But when that didn't go his way either, he made Mbin while shitting on Kbin. I am well aware of the massive ego behind Mbins creation and it is a PERFECT example of "fuck you, I'll make my own".

ETA: oh yeah, and the time when he was supposedly a Lemmy developer too... Who left on bad terms.

Seriously, check the guys resume. He's been supposedly attached to almost every federation project and has left all of them on bad terms when things didn't go his way. Each and every time was "it's not going the direction I want, so I'm starting a new version". The exact point about splintering communities from my OG comment.

Seriously. By the articles definition, were at WW12 by now. Name literally any conflict were other countries didn't get involved. Arms sharing does not equal WW3. The current crisis with Israel literally has multiple countries bombing each other. Much better WW3 candidate.

This is EXACTLY what will happen. Federation will just mean "fuck you, I'll go make my own instance since you don't 100% agree with me" creating splintered echo chambers that accomplish nothing because they fundamentally lack the ability to work with others. Federation will absolutely not lead the rebellion.

Just look how many Lemmy varients there already are. In the first few months we already had Kbin, Mastadon, Lemmy(and all of it's instance variations) and then Kbin even split and also became Mbin as well(which was literally "I don't like how they're running Kbin and they won't do what I want, so I'm starting my own" by user Melroy). Remember how the first drama was "which instances should we block on our instance?" on pretty much every single location? How everyone quickly set out to make a name for themselves by which communities they filtered out? How we didn't even make it a month before instances were defederating each other?

Time and time again humans blame the tools they use instead of reflecting and seeing that the tool wasn't the cause, humanity is. This is how humanity acts. We're tribal by nature. This is what we do. You're not gonna just fix that with some new software. It'll take cultural change on a grand scale.