Dead simple to run, I use Ollama to run local models and it’s like 3 words to setup from the command line.

Useful is entirely relative. I use mine personally and somewhat professionally, but I only use it to draft text and manually alter it. AI is amazing, but it’s also crap. You gotta work it a bit.

Umm this model from what I can see, I’m using the 8b model and it’s fast to generate, time will tell how good the quality is but I’m impressed after a few minutes play.

Fuck it, I use local LLMs enough, will give this a crack.

Edit: it’s doing 6 paragraphs in 8.2 seconds, the last model I used was doing like 1 paragraph in 12 seconds. Crazy fast in my experience.

If only, the event horizon would be lethal.

Hmm a stargate is a great sci-fi guillotine come to think of it.

… Yes? What does that have to do with anything?

Those companies want an easy quick way for people to join because they want constant growth. That means not doing any sort of real checking or verification, it’s not because these billion dollar company cannot afford to, it’s because they don’t want to.

Their problems are not our problems.

Because they want user data over anything.

We want quality communities over anything.

We can be selective, they go bankrupt without consistent growth.

Right, but they’re shit and don’t good things out of principle.

We, the Fediverse, are the alternative to them.

Most instances are open wide to the public.

A few have registration requirements, but it’s usually something banal like “say I agree in Spanish to prove your Spanish enough for this instance” etc.

This is a choice any instance can make if they want, none are but that doesn’t mean they can’t or it doesn’t work.

No? The problem of tech oligarchy is that they control the systems. Here anyone can start up a new instance at the press of a button. That is the solution, not allowing unfiltered freeze peach garbage.

Small “local” human sized groups are the only way we ensure the humanity of a group. These groups can vouch for each-other just as we do with Fediseer.

One big gatekeeper is not the answer and is exactly the problem we want to get away from.

You counter them by moving to a different instance.

Closed instances with vetted members, there’s no other way.

Is this something I’m too Loopy to understand?

Americans have the most absurd understanding of free speech.

. . . You don’t think Mexico is western?

And who said anything about the first black president or abolishing slavery? Mexico didn’t give women the right to vote until 50 years after we did here in Australia, does that mean you reek as well? What an odd stand to try and make.

Loops uses ActivityPub and feeds video in a TikTok like manner.

What’s the difference that makes it not achievable for AT but okay for AP?

I literally saw so many profiles being like “I don’t message first”, like do you even understand what the app you’ve signed up for is?

So why does it for for AP with Loops? What’s the fundamental difference between, isn’t the Fediverse the more decentralised system?

Mahatey, it’s not my fucking country or American exceptionalism because I’m not American eh?

This timeline:

And you’re a fucking idiot if you don’t think Canada is not one of the best places in the world for rights. Go take a holiday to 90% of the world and let me know how they treat women or queers.

Oh come off it mate. It’s not hard to see where the US has lead the charge in topics such as LGBT+ rights or racial equality, and it wasn’t from Asia or Europe let me tell you that much.

They may have a shit ton of flaws, and have a large part actively trying to undo all their work, but they have still done so much positive.

Look at the timeline for marriage equality for instance, they were right up there with the first wave leading the global surge. That doesn’t happen if you’re full of hatred for them.

They’re a dichotomy of amazing social progressivism and brutal conservatism.

Well of course not, they’re deleting the content.

Can’t have them getting ideas like tolerance for minorities.