I mean, the threat was, but the fediverse reacted and most instances (that I know of) just defederated preemptively.

This blog post seems to point and laugh that “see, we hadn’t needed to put out that fire, it’s fully extinguished now”. Well, yes. Because we put it out.

But there is also the point that Meta users and Fedizens didn’t really have any interest in federating with each other. In that respect, the outcome was fully foreseeable, and Meta’s attempt pure signal value for the corporation.

Claude ranks second under “contributors”.

At least they’re consistent in their exploitation.

LOL, startrek.website? IIRC the whole hubbub about them was that they defederated from dbzer0 in the first place.

The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a derogatory term is the same in both cases.

Meh. I find that the rhetorical urge to reduce a dichotomy to absurdly general commonalities is the pseudointellectual’s version of a slur.

Except here you’re not dehumanizing as much as working against anthropomorphization.

This seems very much like a “How do you do, fellow humans” moment, yes.

I’m pretty sure Fedora the Pokémon wears a Pikachu in the movie adaptation, so close enough 🤣

“But accessibility!” is the only humane face “AI” boosters can come up with to defend the clankers. Except they don’t realise it’s more like the scene in Silence of the lambs where Hannibal is wearing a guard’s face like a mask.

Yeah, sorry to be the bringer of terrible news. If these people aren’t actual accelerationists, they put on one hell of a convincing cosplay.

Did you know about Yudkowski’s Harry Potter fanfic that apparently doubles as the sex cult “rationalist” movement’s onboarding material?

Yeah yeah, let’s skip to the part where Yudkowsky (the “AI guru who Sam Altman thinks deserves a Nobel prize”) dropped out of eighth grade and is now running a sex cult 🙄

All of those TESCREAL loonies need a hard wedgie before they are permanently cut off from our attention.

F-droid has no problem with “AI” whatsoever. That goes for vibe coded apps as well as ones where the “AI” is a front facing function. Me, I’d prefer it was considered an anti-feature.

Then, you can still find several regularly updated cryptocurrency apps on F-droid, too, so the maintainers must have a sweet tooth for idiot grifts 🤷

Thanks, I hate it 😂

Fair, I did not remember that slogan.

Why forego a repo URL in favour of a download link? The repo at https://gitlab.com/gee.8ruhs/writteninc has no development files, no version tracking, no licenses…

That, and the obvious LLM reference in the name, makes this whole project a big no-go for me.

On the surface, this sounded like a nice project to connect people in a real world network and exchange tools or services. Pity that the entire readme is a wall of generated word salad, apparently aimed at other bots rather than flesh and blood developers.

I’d be interested in a network like the one outlined here, developed and maintained by actual people, just not whatever this is…

Yeah, why reply to a post with relevant first hand experience, right? 🙄 Classic “boo, your opinions clash with mine” response.

Welp, the new search filters make app search even worse. Now you have to deselect anti-features for each search rather than the way it was before when you could set your preference once and forget it.

Shit like “AI chat” and crypto wallets have their own categories now — so you can just deselect them like anti-features and not have to see them, right? Wrong. Categories are hierarchical, not toggleable, so you just get funneled down into subcategories with no optout.

This screenshot only shows the first half of app categories, sorted alphabetically A-M. Because in their infinite wisdom we now have to wade through 17 game types, and other main categories have been divvied up granularly in the same way.

So overall there is even less chance to sort through the growing mass of apps, and no option to filter out stuff you don’t want to see or have no interest in. I get it, there are F-droid devs who are really invested in techbro cult shit, and they think everybody need to share in their dumb kool-aid. It’s their app, and they designed it for themselves, not for general users.

Looking forward to try out their filters. My personal pipedream is to never have to see another crypto wallet when browsing F-droid. Well, that was the original pipedream, now it includes “AI” crap.