Well they have learnt from the issues and so the chances went from low to soso to high
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xAI will open source Grok this week.
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People do care about online privacy, the Dutch in particular.
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Mark, why have you left Xitter?
Many reasons, for example…
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Yann raining on the AGI parade, perhaps not raining but setting far more sober expectation.
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Just another Mastodon domain expert…
Also published in the Netherlands today (11-03-2024):
A study of a random sample of 300,000 registrations from the Basis Voorziening Handhaving (of the National Police) shows that only 1% of the registrations concern cybercrime and 4% digitized crime. Cybercrime involves, for example, hacking or ransomware. Examples of digitized crime are online fraud and online threats. About a quarter of online crime registrations concern registrations without a report being filed. In cases where a report has been made, a suspect is identified in only 10% of the cases. This indicates a low clearance rate and, in combination with the very limited influx, means that only few cases of online crime flow through the criminal justice chain.
Covers 2018-2020 and points to those CBS-findings as well:
Although it is now clear that online crime is a growing problem and that many people get victimized, the inflow and throughput of online crime in the criminal justice system appears to be lagging behind the development of victimization of online crime as reported in the Safety Monitor from Statistics Netherlands. While there are apparently many victims, the number of offenders convicted of online crime is small.
You would think the Dutch have “to take measures to protect personal information on the internet” or else?
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No point to clap @southside. The same kind of people will blame Safe Network, because there will always some group they do not like.
And what is to stop them moving to your favourite platform. Does it have ability to stop them? To me they would move to any platform that has enough people and low probability of being able to stop them quick enough.
Some groups do not like anyone not adhering to their world view and complain. We have such a group of very conservative narcissists that formed a lobby group and chose “Christian” since historically that was the biggest religious group in AU in order to grow their membership with well meaning people who want their way of life protected. Then this group called themselves “The Christian Lobby Group” with the purpose of getting their views legislated into law. Mind you the leaders are above these laws LOL and the rest of the population are workers to maintain the leaders free lifestyle.
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In theory nothing but they don’t want to be there. They prefer (or a drawn, captured by or whatever) other platforms such as Bluesky and Threads 
. Once in a while one appears but they haven’t stayed and I don’t know but it seems that moderation works better at least so far, perhaps because it is in the hands of community and admins who have other priorities than maximising engagement - heat rather than light to maximise eyeballs.
Note that I’ve never seen Mastodon as the end game. But the differences are worth experiencing because I find that nobody who isn’t active there has much idea about that, the fediverse communities, and how it actually is to use. How great it is atm. I agree it probably won’t last but that’s no reason for me not to be there pushing the next step.
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That says to me that there is not enough attention there and chose Twitter because 1) it allowed it, but more importantly the potential for the greater attention (audience)
And that illustrates my point. Engagement on Mastodon is much higher and much higher quality than on Twitter for example, even pre-Musk. People make all sorts of assumptions and they are invariably wrong.
My true opinion is that all social media is fickle. Good at some things not most.
What you said says to me that you have quality engagement, but cannot reach out to a huge audience you want to attract. Twitter is crap for quality, we know that.
I don’t understand this point, are you saying twitter was better pre-Musk, why? How has he screwed it up compared to Dorsey in your opinion. The fact that people are no longer silenced because their opinions are not popular is positive and better in my opinion.
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Liberdon - the libertarian mastadon instance I use has no moderation and it does well. I think the key is finding a niche that attracts people to your instance/social - one that isn’t being served elsewhere … then it will grow by word of mouth.
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Here is the crux for me, my feel and I only used it briefly was the whole thing is a niche.
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Mastadon is a unique social for sure. What I mean by niche though - for a particular instance, is to focus on a particular interest, like fishing or motorsports, skiing, coding, rocketry … really whatever the founder is interested in … and over time people into that interest will congregate there and share ideas and experiences.
Twitter tries to be all things to all people and being the biggest space it has some success at that, but I think Mastadon could be much bigger overall if more people just built instances around interests - niches.
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I’m going to give it another go. Hopefully I get on better this time than last.
I found it a bit of a chore.
I still don’t think Twitter/X is the devil, at least not compared to other large social media options. That doesn’t mean I love it either, just serves a purpose I have not yet been able to fill elsewhere.
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@TylerAbeoJordan Ok so here is my point, chore. Just downloaded the Mastodon app, no idea what server to join, searched Liberdon, doesn’t show up.
How does which server I join affect my experience?
Different people, different moderation. The one I use - Liberdon, is here: https://liberdon.com/
I don’t use an app, so can’t tell you how to proceed there.
My id is: The Dark Pill (@TylerAbeoJordan@liberdon.com) - Liberdon
My posts there are very different than here though … so … 
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