Let’s face it. The Internet has become shit.
Between AI slop, robots posting and robots responding to boost engagement, this is becoming evil incarnate.
I can’t stop them but I can’t support them, either. Here’s what I am doing:
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This is a follow up to my Why Bluesky is Awesome post from November where I explained the basics of getting started. This post is to answer the most common questions that show up. The first post was about starting and moderating your Bluesky account. This one is about organizing it. As you can see in November I had 33
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Blue Sky feels like a classic social media site that hasn’t been ruined by corporate demands. Sort by chronological or popularity if you want, block whoever you want instantly, post links, pictures, videos, whatever you want.
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Web 2.0 was the world of social media. Its real heyday was in the 2000’s when all the social media platforms cared about was getting an audience. Since the IPO of Facebook in 2012, all the social media platforms care about is making a profit, and these two things are incompatible with each other.
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In the past year AI Art generation has gone from non-existent, to threatening every aspect of art. Spending most of my life in computer related fields including studying how AI works and learns, but at the same time making a living generating game art, I can understand both sides of this issue.
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Whatever Happened To The Internet Dream? Part 1: Bored of the InternetPart 2: The Death of Politics and ReligionPart 3: The Decline of Movies and TVPart 4: Trapped in an Andrew Niccol FilmPart 5: The Tech ApocalypsesPart 6: Internet Memes are Destroying Civilization Part 7: The Dream Is Dead! I’ve been working on various different aspects of the Internet for
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In the last year, I wrote about government interference in the internet, and corporate interference of the internet, but there is another group that has to be acknowledged, the users themselves who often use illegal means to make money online. This group is decentralized and located all over the world. The internet is filled with fraud. Advertising Fraud Hucksters infected
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This month the most popular unfiltered social media site Tumblr has banned porn, nudity and any other sexual content starting December 17th 2018. Of course sites have every right to ban whatever they want, I’m not that upset about the ban itself, although it likely means I’ll be off the platform in the future. I maintained a couple of pages
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The battle for Net-Neutrality, which despite of what you heard is still ongoing, seems to have changed government regulators attitudes towards the internet on what they can and cannot regulate and censor. I knew this is where it would go. As soon as you let Government change how the internet works, you open the doors to all sorts of shenanigans.
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In the past year, the Internet has changed. It is not as friendly as it once was. It has become a battleground that is threatening all of its users, and the companies that do business here. Worse, many rules we used to live by to protect ourselves, no longer apply. There is a lot to write about here, and plenty
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