teleoplexy
9d ago
I mean they already consume shit like tiktok too, but there’s for example us, here on the Motte talking to each other. The Motte IMO is going to be affected by the coming avalanche sooner or later, so in my head the question is - where would I go? I came up with “a paid forum”, but I think touching grass OSS an acceptable outcome too
teleoplexy
9d ago
It would be funny is the main political divide in the future is “grass touchers vs slop eaters”?
teleoplexy
9d ago
Maybe we won't want to talk to each other online anymore in the future, but I think the problem will become a real pain point very soon. If I'm forced to make a bet: will we stop talking to each other online or will people pay for the service somehow, I'm betting on the former.
teleoplexy
9d ago
I think there's a free niche, in our AI world. Strike it while it's hot deal, IMO. There's only one way humans online can keep talking to each other without the doubt that it's really another person you are talking to and not AI: paying for posting. And also having anti-AI policy. I don't think it's going to be easy to create something like this, we would need a Bluesky style mass-exodus to that platform and we are all so used to posting for free that the idea will be met with natural revulsion, but IMO it's the only way to continue talking to real people.
Or maybe such a platform already exists: Something Awful still validates people like that. I'd love it to be not ideologically captured like SA. Maybe framing it as a monthly subscription would be acceptable.
I think the dead internet is going to become true very soon, it already is to an extent. It must get much worse before people will really resort to paid posting.
teleoplexy
21d ago
I kind of hate private group chats. I have a private group chat with friends to shoot the shit and it makes sense if I just want to keep in touch and make each other laugh, but Discord style real-time model just doesn't fit my mental model of deeper discussion:
If it's a smaller group chat like Signal or Telegram or whatever, those problems are less prevalent but I just don't have an understanding how to join one with an anonymous group of people I don't know.
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