"The #onlinenazis are, frankly, fucking lonely. We aren't talking about people who are winning at life. They're not happy family men or pillars of their community. #Socialmedia gave them something they crave: acceptance, a shared enemy, and a twisted sense of purpose. And when that shared enemy increasingly just leaves them alone, leaves them to the wasteland of their own playgrounds, they lose it." https://joanwestenberg.com/truth-social,-twitter-and-the-loneliest-reich

"Tapping into the #Fediverse presents a unique opportunity for discovery. The current offering most platforms have today are relatively sparse, but #Flipboard will be able to yield results across Threads, Mastodon, Podcast Index, and other ActivityPub-based platforms. In trying to make discovery more robust, Flipboard is bringing visibility of popular accounts to help solve that problem, making it easier for people to find their favorite creators." https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/flipboard-fediverse-following/

"Our main concern is the potential impact that AI tools could have on the human motivation to continue creating & sharing knowledge. When people visit Wikipedia directly, they are more likely to become volunteer contributors themselves. If there is a disconnect between where knowledge is generated (e.g #Wikipedia) and where it is consumed (e.g. ChatGPT or Google AI Overview), we run the risk of losing a generation of volunteers and all the knowledge they help contribute."

Sherwood News

AI is mining the sum of human knowledge from Wikipedia. What does that mean for its future?

We spoke with Wikipedia executives who told us AI could jeopardize the encyclopedia’s connection with the volunteers who create it....