Here's my first Mastodon post!
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@FediTips @alex_p_roe I think "AI" gets a bad name too easily these days, because everyone treats it as synonymous with LLMs like Chat GPT. You can be skeptical of LLMs and generative AI, but still appreciate many technologies that rely on machine learning that have done great things for humanity, like discover new medicines, or make translation better.
But that's a topic for a whole new thread...@hpod16 @FediTips @alex_p_roe My usual view of this is to think of the different topics covered in e.g. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, or in university courses labelled "AI".
Even LLMs can be good tools, if properly trained and used. But no, what we get from the same marketing trends that call it "AI" is using it as a generic global solution for everythingTM, which I'd argue is using it wrong.
When I'm trying to refer to it unambiguously, I also tend to use "Generative AI", or perhaps the shorter "GenAI".
(There's also "Generative Autocomplete", and I tend to also think of "GIGO". And now it seems Satya Nadella of Microsoft is boosting the use of "slop".)
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Here's my first Mastodon post!
My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge).
How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?@hpod16
"To understand Mastodon" (Fediverse):If I'd follow you, I'd get all your posts in my feed.
Unlike other platforms, no algorithm filters for "relevance".
So, if I can't handle 30 toots per day from just one person, I can't follow you, in which case I get 0.In other words, too many toots will decrease your visibility. A paradox probably unique to the Fediverse.
Hashtags can solve the issue. People can follow the tag, and you decide the subset of toots they will see.
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@hpod16
"To understand Mastodon" (Fediverse):If I'd follow you, I'd get all your posts in my feed.
Unlike other platforms, no algorithm filters for "relevance".
So, if I can't handle 30 toots per day from just one person, I can't follow you, in which case I get 0.In other words, too many toots will decrease your visibility. A paradox probably unique to the Fediverse.
Hashtags can solve the issue. People can follow the tag, and you decide the subset of toots they will see.
@Richerpacker
Or, the ones who post 30 toots per day may learn to use the "quiet public" privacy setting
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@rainer @echopapa @hpod16 Marketing can work if you do it right. Case in point: https://mastodon.social/@buersten/115932522260107841
Don't use marketingspeak. Be a person and part of the community.
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@hpod16 Get politicians to move here. Journalists will follow. Mainstream folks won't come here before we have companies, brands and influencers and even in that case, it's probably through something like Threads. They're hooked on ads and outrage algorithms.
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@leanderlindahl they did but admittedly I haven’t looked into them yet. It’s way past my bedtime. 🥱
So that sounds like a Monday endeavour to me.
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@rainer @echopapa @hpod16 Marketing can work if you do it right. Case in point: https://mastodon.social/@buersten/115932522260107841
Don't use marketingspeak. Be a person and part of the community.
Bookmarked.
This is the type of marketing I like. Currently I don't need new brooms, but now I know there's a German company which produces these kind of things, prices are ok, And some products are quite funny like the coloured brooms.
So in case if I should need some useful gifts, I know where to order now.
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@hpod16 @midzer Share the video created by @_elena
️ : "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" - available in English, français & italiano
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-video-celebrating-the-fediverse-available-in-english-francais-italiano/@chicraote @hpod16 @midzer @_elena There's also framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD which has subtitles in many lannguages
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@gagagoogle @hpod16 @Mastodon Spammers like to use undermaintained/unmaintained servers as a door into the Fediverse. I am running a script to silence/block servers running old software, that's > 2500 servers autoblocked
For improving moderation support, maybe the EU could help fund IFTAS https://about.iftas.org/
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@hpod16 Get politicians to move here. Journalists will follow. Mainstream folks won't come here before we have companies, brands and influencers and even in that case, it's probably through something like Threads. They're hooked on ads and outrage algorithms.
Influencers will not come here because this platform does not have a central company that (~~explores~~) pays them to create content.
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@ammdias I think it depends how you want to define influencer. Some prefer the term content creator.
People automatically think of vapid beauty influencers making money with random brands (although, good for them, I ain't here to throw shade).
But really isn't anyone who posts online a content creator? And if you do so successfully and become a thought-leader in your niche, are you not an influencer? -
@karlos there is an instance by the European Commission, but not by the European Parliament, so you make a fair point. A project for the future could be to get all EU institutions onto one EU Instance...
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@ammdias I think it depends how you want to define influencer. Some prefer the term content creator.
People automatically think of vapid beauty influencers making money with random brands (although, good for them, I ain't here to throw shade).
But really isn't anyone who posts online a content creator? And if you do so successfully and become a thought-leader in your niche, are you not an influencer?@hpod16 @ammdias Since most of the "paid influencing"-business is so closely tied to advertising, I think the road to "promoted content" in Fediverse is very long and complicated.
As you point out, we already have plenty of "content creator"-influencers, even people who make money out of it (selling their own services) but I don't think the advertising ecosystem can ever exist in fediverse the same way it does in VC-driven social media. And that puts some constraints on fedi audience.
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@hpod16 @karlos We even have a bot here
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@hpod16 @karlos We even have a bot here
@EUPetitionBot@nachtet @karlos @EUPetitionBot what does the bot do? I don’t see its posts right now - server issue?
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@nachtet @karlos @EUPetitionBot what does the bot do? I don’t see its posts right now - server issue?
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@EUPetitionBot @hpod16 @nachtet Merde
I just had the same idea to make a bot, using IFTTT and a WebHook by URLooker. But a WebHook only works with a payed IFTTT, which I don't have.
So @hpod16 , may be you can tell the ECI to explore the Fediverse or at last provide an RSS feed, to present their Mail-Newsletter at last.This is the typical "non Fediverse" they have:
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@EUPetitionBot @hpod16 @nachtet Merde
I just had the same idea to make a bot, using IFTTT and a WebHook by URLooker. But a WebHook only works with a payed IFTTT, which I don't have.
So @hpod16 , may be you can tell the ECI to explore the Fediverse or at last provide an RSS feed, to present their Mail-Newsletter at last.This is the typical "non Fediverse" they have:
(Yes, they are on BlueSky, but the Link to the Fediverse does not work mostly)@karlos @EUPetitionBot @nachtet
Thanks for the suggestion. can you give me the link where you took the screenshot?
