The real top boss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, although the Chairman is often appointed CEO, it doesn’t always happen. The Board of Directors is made up of large shareholders - the people who actually own the company. The CEO is technically just an employee and needn’t own any shares at all (although that would be extremely abnormal).

So, there may actually be a time when a corporation’s Board decides to use an “AI” as their CEO to cut costs.

Thanks. I did try again a couple of days ago and it works now.

How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?

I’m talking about the software side of things. Generative “AI” seems to be a “brute force” approach to artificial intelligence - just throwing hardware at the problem instead of finding a better approach. Given the limitations of GenAI, it just feels crazy to keep going this way. Like a sunk-cost fallacy. These are just my thoughts though, not a real scientific analysis.

I have to doubt the cost efficiency too.

It’s strange that the concept of efficiency seems to have been abandoned. Is consumption of vast computing resources no longer seen as indication of a design flaw?

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

I just found out I can treat PieFed as an app on android (via Firefox), but the bars at the top and bottom seem to be stuck in light mode even though the phone is in dark mode. Is there a solution?

The main differences are:

• package management (how you install new programs)
• release model (fixed vs rolling)
• default desktop environments (the GUI / look and feel)

If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as “banks” for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn’t like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .

If you want to message them about it, now is the time most likely to work.

Good point about the unintentional votes. Maybe just a temporary suspension then.

I thought of another one. In this age of decreasing digital freedom, PieFed (and every other website) should allow people to register multiple email addresses, in case a user suddenly loses access to one.

Yeah, I’m not sure why people want that. In all honestly I wouldn’t implement it if it were me, but if you do I suggest restricting it to communities with the same topic, or maybe even restricting it to communities with the exact same name.

I don’t know if these already exist, but thinking long-term of how to prevent Reddit-like problems:

• An option to move a post to a different community (with the agreement of the other community’s moderators) if the post is in the wrong community, but otherwise seems valid/good-faith/high-effort/etc.

• And for the opposite situation where the post is just garbage, but highly upvoted by bots/brigading, there could be a “nuke it from orbit” option that not only deletes it and bans the poster, but also bans everyone that upvoted it.

Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don’t pay attention to what community it’s posted in. I don’t think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it’s good future-proofing.

I’ve often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.

You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I’m commenting from piefed.social