I’m never joining another vc-backed social network whatever they promise.
Seriously… The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind… Not for a paycheck anyways
We’re getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family
So an RSS Reader (Like CommaFeed) and a Social Bookmarking like Postmarks?
Nah, I’m thinking much bigger. I’ve got an AI that can transcribe video, I’m working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I’ve got one that can hold a conversation, and I’ve got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces
The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I’ll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed
Then, I’ll send it off to find content. It’ll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting
I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I’ll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home
I’ve been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I’ve got most of the key pieces already.
And that’s the bubble of Internet I’m building - AI curation of my Internet life, it’ll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet
Other backers include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
WTF, no, this is worse in every way. So instead of being involved with the people and topics I choose, it’s instead left up to an algorithm? Somehow even more opaque than usual because of AI involvement.
This isn’t solving any problem, this is yet another mask to push content in front of people.
Why would you give your new software the same name as an established and widely used software?
Lemmy. Just use Lemmy.
Why is this so hard, rest of the world?
Oh yeah, because there are no millions to be made here. /bangs head with hand
Isn’t this just Reddit with more steps?