Kaul

I think the difference with the Fediverse is there is an end. There is old content. You catch up to where you left off. It’s not truly an “infinite scroll” in the way OP is referring to.

With stuff like Reddit, they organize to where it all feels recent, it’s all relevant, and it’s all new. Every time you refresh, new psuedo-random (algorithmic) content takes it’s place. They almost prevent you from seeing old content. The “infinite scroll” is more like “infinite content”.

In this way, they put people in an endless loop. People always have something to find, and because of the infinite scroll, you’ll always have a good chance of finding “rares”. It’s exhausting once you notice it.

At least I can tell I’ve opened Lemmy too many times today because all of the recent posts are marked as read.

Definitely agree with you, but as I said originally, OSS doesn’t really have the capacity to tackle this stuff… You can’t say “we have no AI apps” if you don’t have a way to constantly be checking and guaranteeing that.

However, if this is really a major problem for you, maybe try contributing to a project you like? Look for AI apps and send take-down requests to the devs of the app store you found them on.

Might not be the simplest solution, but as the saying goes, “be the change you want to see in the world”.

I mainly use F-Droid and unfortunately I’d say a lot of the “new” and “recently updated” apps seem like they were most likely made with AI.

Idk if it’ll be easy to find an open source app store that completely restricts AI content, because that means somebody would have to be manually monitoring it and investigating each project that’s uploaded, which most OSS doesn’t have the capacity for.

I love stuff like this because it makes the internet feel less algorithmic and more like a bunch of monkeys monkeying around.

Unsurprising to anyone around boomers. Grandma asks Gemini everything. Dad scrolls shorts all day. Grandpa rage posts on Facebook.

Then you talk to them about real life shit and they act like they understand, but how could they understand when they haven’t been present for years? Their opinions and beliefs are no longer based in reality. They say stupid out of touch shit and have absolutely no hobbies anymore. The disconnect between me and my parents and grandparents makes me physically sick and there’s legitimately no amount of effort I can put in that would get any of them to stop… Because it’s addictive as fuck.

For fucks sake any time I’m with my dad he’s just scrolling short videos and laughing/making comments trying to bring everyone else into what he’s watching and holy shit it’s legitimately the most annoying fucking thing. Put your fucking phone down and experience real life. YOU think it’s so awesome because they know EXACTLY what you like but nobody else fucking cares.

I see everyone around me mentally degrading because of this shit and I’m feeling worried. It makes me feel like I need to make a Facebook account just to fill their feeds with less slop but I deleted my Facebook 10 years ago. I don’t know how else to get through to them. If anyone has ideas that’ve worked on their family, lmk. Rant over.