I was on the wrong Mastodon instance. Are you? Long story short: I’ve lost everything — posts, follows, followers, the lot. This was confirmed yesterday, exactly a year since I helpfully posted this: Am I on the right Mastodon instance? the other users on your instance create its collective intelligence — the nearest thing you have to a content discovery…mathewlowry.medium.com I have to give a wry chuckle at my last, hope-filled paragraph:

“Summarise the optimistic and pessimistic scenarios of introducing AI chatbots into online social media, and conclude with recommendations: how online communities could benefit from AI chatbots while minimising risks, and what needs to be done — in terms of technology, education, public policy, etc. …

What can wikis offer blogging, and vice versa, particularly in a decentralised collective intelligence environment? Preface: This is a lightly edited repost of a permanent version of a TfTMap massive wiki page. Are you reading a blog post or a wiki page right now? …

Help us map the Tools4Thought landscape and pilot decentralised collective intelligence tools in the process. This post is based on the Tools for Thought Map pilot project, and is also part of an interconnected series of posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped into existence. …

Anyone training an AI system as they use it should own it via a data union. This is one of several posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped into existence. As set out in my introductory post (above), I’m exploring these questions by re-imagining how…

A personalised, decentralised Social Knowledge Graph for each user multiplies the knowledge available to them via a trusted network of Followers and Friends, and creating collaborative possibilities more akin to wikis than blogging. This is one of several posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped…

What would a Tool4Thought designed to support decentralised collective intelligence look like? This is one of several posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped into existence. As set out in my introductory post (above), I’m exploring these questions by re-imagining MyHub.ai, a publishing platform I…

I spent a few minutes in conversation with ChatGPT. I’ll leave interpretation and critical analysis for another post. Goodbye, New Grub Street Write me a blog post explaining how ChatGPT can write a new blog post for me every day covering the implications of ChatGPT and other LLMs for a wide range of content…

I paid almost no attention to which Mastodon instance I joined a week or two ago — after all it doesn’t matter ‘cos it’s federated, right? (Update, 2023–11–17: there’s one more reason it does matter, and it’s a biggie: All my toots gone I was on the wrong Mastodon instance. Are you?mathewlowry.medium.com The rest of this post still stands, though). As far as…