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Nov 28, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Being more active on mastodon is an interesting experience so far. The engagement numbers (likes & boosts) are crazy high compared to twitter, despite only having 380 followers there. Feels far less controlled than the bird site. And you can edit posts! mastodon.social/@samim Image
How the mastadon timeline work Image
The fact that you can edit toot's on mastodon very elegantly, makes twitter look like a silly joke. Image
A tool by @tibor to help find your Twitter followers on #Mastodon: movetodon.org

👉 Evaluation happens locally in the browser
👉 No CSV import necessary
👉 List sortable by registration date ➝ Find new accounts quickly ImageImage
How long until #Mastodon and the #Fediverse supplant twitter for a majority of users?
"The many branches of the Fediverse" - Graphic by @axbom: axbom.com/fediverse/ Image
@axbom How the visibility of a toot on #mastadon works. Image
@axbom How the visibility of a tweet on the #twitter timeline is decided (simplified version) Image

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One midterm destination of the current Generative AI hype train is rather clear: Mass Wireheading & Mind control - digital media more addictive than any drug and more precise than any weapon. Practitioners in the field should be clear & honest about this. samim.io/p/2022-08-01-p…
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"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude & producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the FINAL Revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group (1961)
Prediction: In the coming 24m, the silicon valley crowd will start to shift the overton window on wireheading and make it attractive to consumer
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