Just of top of your head, can you list three reasons they want to join the Fediverse for a “normal” Reddit user?

I agree, there is no reason for most of them to. Why leave a place full of conversation to join somewhere where there is hardly any?

That said, many people want to to abandon traditional social media sites like Twitter/X and Facebook - Bluesky has been a huge beneficiary.

If it did things differently, there is every reason to think the fediverse could benefit from that transition. This trend of turning against the old social media , especially as it has aligned itself with the far right, is only going to accelerate.

I wonder what effect this will have on the resale value of second-hand electric vehicles?

So far they have not been performing as well as ICE cars. EV cars from even three years ago are seen as technologically behind today’s models, particularly when it comes to battery technology.

Theoretically the second hand EV market should be vibrant in future. EVs have much simpler engines, require much less maintenance when they are older, and should hold their value longer than ICE cars.

It’s still very early on, but a theme discussed in the video is worth repeating here: if the Fediverse is so great (ethical, devoid of advertising or toxic, addictive algorithms, with the goal of genuinely connecting people) why is it that the general public has not heard of it?

The futurology.today instance I’m an admin/mod of has the added benefit of being a direct sibling of r/futurology on Reddit which has 21 million users (I, and the other Mods also mod it).

Despite over a year promoting it on the subreddit, 3/4 of the instances users are from the fediverse, not Reddit.

Maybe the fediverse needs some breakthrough with usability, discovery and appeal?

Its bizarre that finding and subscribing to other instances is still so painful and backwards.

Why can’t we have new account types already subscribed to a ‘top 100 instances’ ? Instant improvement.

I think the issue is that although it’s early days, if nobody builds the guardrails in at this point in time, will they ever? Do the people in charge of building AI even care? Their leadership seems much more interested in deregulation and rolling back safety oversight.

So the same people who have no problem about using other people’s copyrighted work, are now crying when the Chinese do the same to them? Find me a nano-scale violin so I can play a really sad song.

Thanks for the reply.

Naive question probably - which of these platforms would get a new creator the biggest audience?

The new US administration has made the world more dangerous. The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and war with Iran both threaten to escalate to a wider Middle East war.

At present, the only available treatments for snakebites consist of polyclonal antibodies derived from the plasma of immunized animals, which have high cost and limited efficacy against 3FTxs5

Huge swathes of the world, especially India and countries in Africa, don’t have access to high cost medical treatments.

At least this should finally put the ‘Chinese can’t innovate, they can only copy’ meme into retirement.

Yes, & their embrace of the orange failed businessman will come back to bite them on the backside.

He’s already handed China global leadership in the energy transition, likely the biggest industry in human history, that the Chinese will make trillion from in decades to come.

They are:

I could easily believe its true, though if so, I’m puzzled by their tactics.

Open-sourcing like this seems profoundly decentralizing and democratizing, not tendencies I’d associate with the CCP.

At this point I wonder is the Chinese government executing some strategy in the background. If they are, and its to weaken America’s tech lead, it’s working.

Then again, why open-source everything and give its power so freely to everyone? Many people would have thought hoarding power to try and be No 1, as the US is doing, is better game play.

I’m glad this means AI’s power will become more decentralized internationally. Who would have thought it was China responsible for that?

DeepSeek buzz puts tech stocks on track for $1.2 trillion drop

Just a few months ago many American commenters thought their country was ‘years ahead’ of China when it came to AI dominance. That narrative has been blown out of the water.

“For example, if you were to replace components made of titanium on a plane with this material, you would be looking at fuel savings of 80 liters per year for every kilogram of material you replace,” adds Serles.

I’m impressed by two things here. That something so light could replace titanium, and that it was discovered by AI.

Zero / zero is mathematically undefined.

I should have been more accurate. What I meant was the economics term - zero marginal cost.

There’s an excellent book by Jeremy Rifkin speculating on what an AI/robotics automation zero marginal cost society might be like.

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

The odd thing I find in statements like this from the likes of Marc Anderessen, is that if prices tend towards zero that means ALL prices. Stocks, property, 401K portfolios.

I’m sure if challenged on that, he would say he doesn’t support any such thing, but the economic logic seems inescapable.

He’s an idiot

He may be, but he’s also voicing standard economic ideas shared by the world’s government and business elites.

That’s the problem. All the people who are creating a world where AI & robots can do most work, think this is how it will work out.

Who knows, we may eventually get Star Trek style communism - maybe the problem is no one is taking Big Tech seriously, when they come right out and say what they are doing.

Really?

I just tried it at - https://chat.deepseek.com/

Q - What are Molotov cocktails named after?

A - Molotov cocktails are named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet politician and diplomat. The name originated during the Winter War (1939-1940) between the Soviet Union and Finland. When Soviet forces invaded Finland, Molotov, who was the Soviet Foreign Minister at the time, claimed in propaganda that the Soviet Union was not dropping bombs but rather delivering food and supplies to the Finnish people. In response, the Finns sarcastically referred to the Soviet incendiary bombs as “Molotov’s bread baskets.”

The Finns then developed their own improvised incendiary devices to use against Soviet tanks, naming them “Molotov cocktails” as a “drink to go with the food” Molotov claimed to be providing. The name stuck, and the term “Molotov cocktail” has since been used globally to describe similar homemade incendiary weapons.