alt Hacker NewsThis post like many recent ones like it, essentially wants the internet to go backwards to what it once was pre-LLMs [edit: and pre-concentration]. I'd like to suggest that you should follow through and go all the way to pre-internet itself, and rediscover handwriting, in-person local meeting groups, non-digital relationships, and using your hands not on a keyboard. Today I (with difficulty) left my macbook closed all day until this evening (and this comment). Small steps.
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+1 for writing letters. I do it with two people (one lives in the same city!)
But it's not an either/or proposition.
Also, keep in mind that POSSE and this site predate LLMs by quite a bit.
LLMs had no impact on how content is organized as far as I can tell.
Some people are just using it to post more garbage into the platforms they already were using
I understand this attitude but when I look back at my rural youth I just hear you telling me that I should have had no one to talk to at all about many things.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater
I read this as an ownership issue, where Meta owns your content as long as you post on Facebook or Instagram, and has nothing to do with LLMs.