Paco Hope on Nostr: There is a parallel between the #forkiverse server and AI. They vibed up a fediverse ...

There is a parallel between the #forkiverse server and AI. They vibed up a fediverse server. They didn’t know what it was, didn’t have passion or commitment to it. They didn’t realise that the hard part of hosting a server on the #fediverse is not standing up a slightly complicated software stack. It’s not even the money. It’s the care and labour showing up day after day. Anyone can pay a few bucks and get a server. Running it and making community and so on are what’s hard.

AI, if it does something useful, often does something superficial. But people don’t know what they don’t know. So they can’t tell how superficial it is or how wrong it is unless they know how to do the thing in the first place.

So these guys dabbled superficially in something they didn’t know or care deeply about. I suspect it is because they have access to real, high-powered marketing. And marketing their brand is super important. There’s no way to do much of that here. It’s hard to monetise this social media, but that’s a large part of why they use social media.