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one CEO of a tech recruiting company suddenly found herself being inundated with Slack messages from employees that they’d clearly generated using AI, leading her to implement a new policy that strictly forbids the practice for internal communications.

One anonymous CEO got so fed up, they threatened to “fire the next person” who blasted them with unedited ChatGPT slop

“You weren’t supposed to send me all of this slop! You were just supposed to sell it to paying customers!”

The promise of the Fediverse is not, has never been, and should never be read as, global, universal cross-communication. It is a network of social media networks, where small websites can syndicate like content with other small websites they want to share with.

This idea of sharing everything everywhere all at once is kind of a degenerate state,caused by a low population, and fueled by twenty years of people using absolutely unconsciencely huge social sites that have swallowed the web.

It should not be the end goal.

It probably shouldn’t be the start goal, but it’s too late for that.

Smaller sites, where people can build community, recognize and know each other, and create some kind of truly shared space, while also being able interact with tertiaty content of the same type outside the primary network is the promise of the fediverse.

You’re functionally complaining that, because your email client doesn’t play Tiktok videos, they have bith betrayed the promise of the Internet.

Yes, Piefed does. So does NodeBB. And Catodon.

Each group/sub on Lemmy/Piefed/etc. has an address, like [email protected]. On Mastodon, you just @ the sub’s handle, and you can follow the handle as if it were a user and have everything posted to the sub reshared to you.

Lemmy doesn’t let you follow individual user accounte, though, so you can’t follow Mastodon users. Just groups. But there are lots of things that are groups. PeerTube channels, for instace.

They don’t. Not anymore, at least, if that was a thing. I’ve been mentioning the Fediverse there for years. Comments generally get reasonably high views, but low engagement because people on established platforms rarely want to do anything to fix their issues.

Anyone who still has an account there, I’d encourage you to use it to gently promote your favourite Fediverse website. There are a significant number of people asking about Reddit alternatives the last couple of days, and sending people directly to a specific suggested site (rather than just saying something like “Lemmy”) is more likely to get people to come over and check things out.

It’s a shame there’s not some big social engagement event going on here right now. Anyone want to start some kind of viral shitpostery?

What a weird way to spell “timbits”