I absolutely hate that so many people still use these shit platforms run my the worst people on the planet. That said, if you are famous, there is a dilemma where, if you refuse to use these platforms, someone will make a fake account that purports to be you.

They chose to advertise themselves on the “Grandma’s Racist Rants And Old White Guys With Sunglasses Who Hate Poor People” platform.

While true, they also advertised themselves on a platform most Americans use.

Say what you want about someone's ability to not use a social media platform in the first place, but if you're a band that depends on... people, it's hard to just decide not to put yourself out there on a platform where so many people are.

The network effect is real. It's where people's friends, family, celebrities, bands, etc all are. Leaving means leaving people who are important to you.

A lot of people find it easier to leave platforms like Twitter now, because the platform is such a shell of its former self that it doesn't even provide what many people originally came there for, but if you're on Instagram, Facebook, etc, it still often provides people with easy communication to/from family and friends, and organizations like bands with access to an audience, promotion, visibility, etc.

Leaving the platform means leaving fans, and giving up visibility. I wish everyone could just quit Meta's platforms and crush the company, but there's a very simple collective action problem at play here that makes it very difficult, don't discount that.

They've had their accounts since 08 and 12. Its harder for a band of their size and fame to just leave these platforms than it is for a regular person, and most regular people still go on Instagram at least if not Twitter as well.

after being in the industry for a quartercentury, they prolly belong to that grandma old guy w sunglasses group themselves haha.

Zuck and Musk are definitely the same kind of loner creeps. They are probably pen pals.

Ya, given zuck doesnt own X the most probable answer is they cut a big fat cheque. Im sure we'll find out soon enough either way.

with a android with doll eyes with no soul.

only way of communicating with many of my friends

A big joke around here is you can send me a carrier pigeon. But aside from this, do yall not have phone numbers? Your main form of communication with your friends is through instagram and it's the only way?

I live in a "developing" country where most local businesses don't have the funds to maintain a dedicated website, so they have their online presence through Instagram or Facebook and offer ordering via WhatsApp.

I don't love how Meta's sites are baked into our informal infrastructure here, but it's the way of things. My refusal to participate is not going to change the system; it's just going to affect my ability to find information.

I use Instagram for checking business hours and looking at menus. (I'm not even connected with my actual friends who use it.) I don't think the content I seek out is bad for my humanity, but I also understand that my feed looks very different from most.

It's possible to build a more affirming experience for yourself, but you'll still be shown clickbait trash because the algorithm seeks to drive engagement.

To be fair WhatsApp was purchased after it had established a significant userbase. Changing platforms isn't always the easiest for the less tech-inclined people. It's unfortunate how consolidated mainstream services have become.

My wife sometimes sends me Instagram links, and half the time they don't even open to the post she was sending me. Most of the time it's obvious (such as if I get sent to the main feed), but sometimes it takes me to a completely different post. WHAT THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO SEE?!

I've tried to follow some artists on Instagram, but it never seems to show me their most recent posts. I have to go into each one and look individually. It prioritizes random other people over the people I've specifically followed. If I click on someone's profile circle at the top of the page, I get ...a video? It doesn't take me to their page where I can fucking see what they've posted lately.

What a pain in the ass. I rarely use it. It's just not worth the headache. Too bad, because I really like things like the thrillhousecycling account, which is cycling memes using Simpsons screen shots.

We all know Facebook, et al, have algorithms to prioritize certain content, but Instagram's seems to be far, far worse. I only follow ~3 accounts, and I see dozens of other things, but not the ones I actually follow.

As if pr isn't a thing

But if you do everything yourself then how will they steal your data? :(

i have issues with getting things done, called executive dysfunction. i tried AI for programming and felt myself getting dumber very quickly. nope, that's not it. better do it myself.

Fortune favors the fools.

ikr?

All the big tech companies are pushing AI into everything to pump their "growth" story, but it's mostly shit.

Still useful, granted; for example, yesterday I needed a complex spill formula in Excel to de-aggregate a delineated list of data (in one column) while preserving (repeating) all other key data in the rows. I could have figured it out manually, but I used AI. It got it completely wrong, multiple times, but I was eventually able to parse out three Excel functions I'd never used before to make it happen, mostly with my own code since the AI fucked it up so badly.

But I doubt I could do it again by hand today, let alone in a few weeks/months. So, it saved me some time but at the cost of my learning new skills.

I think my use case yesterday is very indicative of the economic value of AI; it can help experts do small tasks faster, at the cost of long term learning. It has some value, but only like 1% of the value relative to its market valuation.

I can't wait for it to crash and burn. The longer this house of cards keeps growing, the worse the crash is going to be.

But theyre also less accurate!

Wow good thing he used Claude to do that because that definitely doesn't exist in any free and open source capacity already lol

I was more talking about the OpenClaw / This new Meta thing vertent of "Personal Agent" were you log all your accounts into it and it just "does things for you" on its own versus using AI to create an app.

MetaMuseAl

I might be out of the loop - what did Patreon and Bandcamp do?

Hope he receives more consequences

RealMuseic

They’re referencing muse lyrics……….

Dude...

"YOur PErsonal AI AGent". There used to be a rather pragmatic / stupid way of naming things by composing their descriptions in some socialist states.

Basically just random. It doesn't have to sound great. Not everything needs to or should be marketed as something deeply amazing and awesome.

I wish we'd see the kind of enthusiasm of fuckai but against advertising and marketing. I believe it should be made illegal outside of product review shows. Consumerism promotes extinction.

I'll give it a listen in a bit.

I'm not a huge fan either but I did listen to them quite frequently ever since supermassive black hole was used in twilight.

It's probably like the whole Reddit thing. Fine print says they can do whatever with your account, from using its content to just taking it. Copyright and trademark probably don't apply here, and they'll argue that they didn't really take the account, they just changed the "user" name.

There probably was money involved - between Meta and X/Elon Musk.

If it weren't, you'd see more of a stink from Muse the band i'd recon. I just mean that this source is not a source 😅