I don’t need ChatGPT.
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte
And that is soooo fabulous!! -
Now I'm curious, but I couldn't find it by quickly looking up in your profile.
@jaBote @skinnylatte most of my toots are followers only. I was recommended draw.io, excalidraw.com and PowerPoint
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@skinnylatte I wish it was like that for me! Last week I posted a question about making a bot and no one answered. I included relevant hashtags even.

@skinnylatte @qgustavor
That sometimes happened to me, too.
It often helps to try again by boosting my own post. Don't be ashamed to boost yourself!(I looked for that post on your profile to boost it, but couldn't find it.)
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@skinnylatte I highly recommend asking Mastodon if you're a #Linux noob like me. Online forums are really mean to noobs, and it's hard to just get a damned answer to your question there. People on here are way nicer and more helpful.
@RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io out of curiosity, what forums do you mean? the ones i used/use were quite civil (usually)
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@jaBote @skinnylatte most of my toots are followers only. I was recommended draw.io, excalidraw.com and PowerPoint
@laguiri @jaBote @skinnylatte ooh, excalidraw is good, i was reccomended it by someone on vrchat lol
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte looks like a collective intelligence

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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte I just did this for a very specific question in a lounge slack channel at work and now I have answers, new questions answered and a couple of people I get to know more. Asking actual people is the best thing ever
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@skinnylatte I am two for two on asking for tech help I couldn't find via web searching and getting the correct answer *within two minutes.* It's amazing.
@cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Three for three here, cwicseolfor.
The Fediverse hive mind is astounding! -
I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte I would take a 2 decades old Google search over today's "latest and greatest" ChatGPT session.
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@cwicseolfor haha I wholeheartedly agree. I have given up on searching for answers to technical things on the web, when I can just ask the question here and get brilliant advice and solutions in under 2 minutes.
There are so many incredibly smart and generous people on here, willing to help
️ @_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Sadly, it hasn't worked for me
I would still love to get a recommendation for 3D modeling software that would let me complete my walkthrough model of the airship from my books. -
@skinnylatte @qgustavor
That sometimes happened to me, too.
It often helps to try again by boosting my own post. Don't be ashamed to boost yourself!(I looked for that post on your profile to boost it, but couldn't find it.)
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@_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Sadly, it hasn't worked for me
I would still love to get a recommendation for 3D modeling software that would let me complete my walkthrough model of the airship from my books. @AbramKedge you just don't have the right friends
jokes aside, it is a bit hit and miss. I've had open questions that were answered after TWO YEARS and others that were answered within minutes. -
I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte Autistic acquaintances in question:
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
"You should always carry a pocket knife when you go walking in the woods. Because if you get lost, sit down and start sharpening it and a man will *immediately* appear to tell you you're doing it wrong, and you can ask him the way back to the road"
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte You will get an even better response if you are posting some slightly wrong information. This will not just trigger the Autists but the OCD-people as well.
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte i bet that works great when you have 11k followers... for the rest of us finding the right receptive community is a bigger issue...
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I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me
@skinnylatte a friend of mine was writing a user interface to enter phone numbers, and wanted it to be aware of all the local formatting conventions - I suggested he create a Wikipedia page listing the ones he knew in a table and wait a month for it to fill out, then parse the table to get a comptehensive list. Apparently it worked!
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