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I wonder if this is why so many sites now started including previews of new content on old content pages. It’s made trying to google by date range completely useless because google now thinks a 12 year old post is brand new because there’s a preview of a new post at the bottom when they re-index it.

It could make for a good Black Mirror episode. Two awkward people buy AI glasses and supposedly fall in love with each other, but they’re always just going along with what the AI tells them to say. They end up both saying they have shared interests that they actually hate and while they’re with their dream romantic interest they had before dating, their whole lives are miserable. Finally in advanced age one is dying and can’t wear the glasses. For the first time in their relationship they’re honest, and the two discover that they actually share their real interests and have tons of things in common. However, for fear being rejected they both spent their whole lives miserable with each other instead of having a potentially perfect life together if only one of them had ever taken the glasses off.

If you’re only interested in topics then switching from another social network to fediverse isn’t so bad. But a lot of the twitter userbase is there because they want to follow people not topics. If you’re into journalism all the journalists are there. If you’re in the art world all the artists are there. Prior to musk it was easy to know that you were following who you thought you were. And the value is in that group of people all being there.

It’s like how it’s not a big deal for me that I quit reddit to come here, but I still have to maintain a Facebook and LinkedIn presence for my career. I can’t (yet, anyways) tell people I meet at conferences to look me up on fediverse and then have to explain what that is and how it works and make sure they follow the right account name from the right instance.

People wouldn’t accept Google Glasses and they were at least well designed for what they were. There’s several new groups trying to sell glasses like this now but they seem to just be hopping on the AI bandwagon hoping for VC I figure. Imagine going on a first date with someone and they got that weird clunky camera thing clipped onto their glasses filming you the whole date. If you already had enough trouble with conversation on your own I don’t see how adding awkwardness to the mix is going to help you at all.

I finally just made an account on kbin.social to get a little more familiar with this whole fediverse thing and see where I want to actually consider home. But for the past few weeks I’ve been following the redditalternatives subreddit and looking at various instances of lemmy/kbin. I made a post there about noticing that depending on which instance I view a thread from it’ll contain a different number of comments despite being the same thread shared with federated instances. I was told that the data sync (not sure the proper terminology yet) is still a bit laggy & buggy so it takes some for the data to propagate to all federated instances and some comments may not sync at all. This is one of my biggest concerns on using fediverse as a platform.

What’s it tell you to say to explain the weird ass glasses on your face? lol

I’ve seen several of these projects in the past couple weeks. If the public wouldn’t accept google glasses and thought they were too invasive who is going to be receptive to these types of glasses that look absolutely ridiculous?

The feds did come after him for other computer crimes (unrelated to those views) and he hung himself and investigation into him stopped at that point.

I’d say you can read Aaron’s own defense of child porn on his website and draw your own conclusions. If you’re trying to suggest that I’m somehow defending Ohanian and Huffman, far from it. I can think Swartz shouldn’t be considered a modern folk hero and still not like the other two.

Huffman was a mod for the jailbait subreddit.

Here’s an interview with Ohanian after CNN reported on the jailbait subreddit which caused Reddit to close it down. Alexis blames CNN for “making up jibber jabber” and the children who allowed images of their abuse to be posted online.

This type of view was apparently support by all the original Reddit folks, just because Swartz has a better reputation now doesn’t mean he didn’t also share those views.

Also Swartz had a section of his homepage defending child pornography as “not necessarily abuse” and that possession & distribution of it should be a first amendment right. He also advocated for a violent overthrow of the US government. Here’s a cache of one instance of him defending it. Aaron did some really great tech stuff, but he’s not a person that should be regarded as some hero as he had a lot of views that were misguided at best.