Mastodon was built by sensible, thoughtful people, many from underrepresented communities who had very clear needs around safety and moderation – they've put a lot of careful work into that, and the community there continues to invest in it I'm optimistic!
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Creator Moves to Decentralized Platform After 16 Years on Twitter
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I invested 16 years in producing content for Twitter, I'm extremely uninterested in putting that kind of work into a platform that I don't own in the future Hence https://
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon – which may not be quite as slick and usable as Twitter, but it's close enough! -
AI Correctness vs User Satisfaction: Resolving HCI Conflicts
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Another wonderful panel by @msbernst @stanfordmav @adapperprof @landay @StanfordHAI Fall Conf today. “AI optimizes for 100% correctness; HCI optimizes for 100% user satisfaction. What happens when they’re in conflict?”
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Elon Musk fires Twitter employees for internal disagreement
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He isn't just firing people who posted in public, he's actively hunting down people who disagreed with him internally too https://
nytimes.com/2022/11/15/tec
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Content Creators Trust Platform Decentralization Risk
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In this particular case I think the group that matters most isn't the majority of end-users, it's the much smaller group of people who produce the majority of the content – and who really will think hard about what platform they trust most not to rug-pull them in the future
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Feature That Matters Most
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I ignored Mastodon for 6 years because I knew that decentralized social networks could never be as low friction and easy to use as something like Twitter … but they also can't be bought by a billionaire narcissist, and it turns out that might be the feature that matters most!
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Fediverse as Twitter Alternative: Decentralized Future Trust
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I'm honestly having trouble imagining a viable future Twitter alternative that isn't part of the fediverse (Mastodon is currently just the most visible implementation) Are we really all going to trust some new centralized startup, after how badly we got burned on Twitter?
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Mid-Stage Companies Distracted From Core Product Excellence
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biggest indicator of a mid company is spending tons of energy on things other than making their core product/service better
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Penguin NVIDIA Shell Enhance Data Center Energy Efficiency Sustainability
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To improve data center #sustainability, @WeAre_Penguin
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Create Fine-Tuned Stable Diffusion Models with DreamBooth
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Want to create your own fine-tuned version of Stable Diffusion? DreamBooth makes it possible using just a handful of training images. Give it a go at https://
github.com/replicate/drea
mbooth-template
… and share your feedback.