leftzero

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[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

The usability has been plummetting with every single redesign for quite a while, though.

Used to be everything could be found and done in two or three clicks... now it's five minutes clicking and scrolling through the useless single windowed chaos of the configuration app looking for where the last update randomly moved it to (finding one or two options that are almost what you're looking for, but can't do what used to take just a couple clicks), five minutes looking it up on what's left of the internet while avoiding ads, spam, and hallucinating LLMs, only to find out this setting you and everyone you know had been using almost daily was removed by the last update “to improve usability”, and five minutes writing eldritch incantations into the registry, group policies, or powershell to finally configure the fucking setting...

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 2 months ago

They are still making games based on 15 year old standards

If only. Daggerfall was great for its time, Morrowind was and still remains a classic masterpiece.

The enshittification started with Oblivion, and only got worse from there.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 2 months ago

Photocopy of a photocopy is my go-to metaphor for model collapse.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't prevent power hungry mods from modding hundreds of communities, or mods or admins from enshittifying the most popular communities (or whole instances) with absurd rules or misinformation bots, or any other of the abuses that were rampant on reddit and even more rampant here... sure, the users can migrate to some other community or instance, but most won't (and migrating instances is significantly more work than simply unsubscribing from one subreddit and subscribing to another).

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's Russia, after all. Their entire history has been often summarised as “... and then things got worse”.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Looked like the least worst alternative to reddit (which was the least worst replacement for what the internet used to be before reddit, and facebook, and the like, killed it).

Turns out it's mostly reddit reposts (often by bots, which is ironic since the originals were also reddit reposts posted by bots) and US politics garbage, and even more susceptible than Reddit to power hungry mods and echo chambers.

I guess I'm just addicted to doomscrolling. Which is almost as depressing as the fact that this inane crumb of utterly useless and purposeless garbage is by far the least worst furuncle in the rotting bot infested corpse of the internet.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

No. The fediverse is just more of the same mindless gargling and regurgitation of mainstream media excrement that the internet has become, but federated.

It lacks the creativity, originality, experimentation, wonder, sheer life of the old internet.

It's just as dead, enshittified, and riddled with misinformation bots as everything else.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago

if you ask it again, it again feeds you the wrong information

Well, it's a LLM, they can't learn anything without rebuilding the whole model from scratch, which I wouldn't exactly call learning anyway... all they “know” is what word is most likely to follow a certain sequence of words according to their model.
Any other facts or information are completely inconsequential for their operation and results.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

Being against LLMs being sold as AI (or as useful for anything practical) is not being against AI.

LLMs have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with AI, other than being sold as if they did.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

No, I'm not db0, but thanks for the compliment. 😅

I'm way too lazy (and broke) to set up and admin a Lemmy instance.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

I just had a look... there were four posts yesterday.
Seven the day before.
For a sub with over 17 million subscribers.

It doesn't look much better, I'd say.

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