Going open-source was the biggest single factor in immediately swaying me over here from Thunder (well, it was really the multi-community feed feature, but closed-source is what held me back). Thanks for being transparent!

Right, but I think it’d be harder to get it to unlearn the wrong data if the topic itself is obscure.

None of which I know…

Let me introduce you to something known as military time (which, yes, even exists in the US)…

Also, people forget that Discord’s streaming capability is, unfortunately, absolutely top-notch; no other community-screensharing platform has fewer issues, and my friends and I like to watch each other play games often.

This is exactly what I was gonna say: I’m amazed that so many millions of people can tolerate its atrocious UI. Even now, the amount of notifications I get from the constant text channels across “servers” (which is such a misnomer for merely “communities”) is so ridiculous that I ignore 99.9% of it.

Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says - we don’t know for sure what it’ll be, but it’s just generally not a good sign.

What I mean is that if people keep making it produce garbage tied to some keyword or phrase and people publish said garbage, that’ll only strengthen AIs’ neural network between the bad data and that keyword, so AI results for such trees will drift even further away from the truth.

So we could keep having it generate these and poison its own training data!

Remember, “AI” (autocomplete idiocy) doesn’t know what sense is; it just continues words and displays what may seem to address at least some of the topic with no innate understanding of accuracy or truth.

Never forget that ChatGPT 2.0 can literally be run in a giant Excel spreadsheet with no other program needed. It’s not “smart” and is ultimately millions of formulae at work.

Poverty almost certainly costs more than all this ecologically, socially, and financially. The suffering and stress of the unhoused spills over into the lives of others who interact with or observe them, increasing our collective societal stress levels, increasing hospital visits, pushing people to earlier deaths (especially, of course, among the ultra-poor), and leading to expenses involving their unplanned funerals and messier aftermaths as opposed to cleanly laid-out wills, lost/absent documentation, etc.

Poverty drives people to violence and crime when they feel unheard and ignored. What if that house could help people find some peace in their lives? Instead maybe they become the very ones who rob and wreck it out of desperation. Societies need to help all people to keep the peace.

A lot of these issues can be or begin to be solved by giving them small apartments like in Finland. Homelessness ultimately costs society more than the actual cost to home them, ironically. We’ll see, I suppose: https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-03-19/housing-experts-worry-about-federal-plans-to-cut-homelessness-programs

For me, it was the upcoming news of paid subreddit access that finally pushed me over to retry this place.

… from a distance.