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I only use the web UI, jerboa didn't click with me. The only issue I have with it s that collapsing comments can be tricky.

I think the plan should be bracing for impact, and how to deal with the after-effect. Because let's be honest, we are in a late stage capitalism, and Meta megacorp will get what it wants.

I don't currently see it spilling it's poison to Lemmy/kbin. I'm hopeful rather, but I may be misunderstanding how the fediverse works.

But for mastodon, I would say the outcome is a segregation, as it's safe to assume that communities that integrate wirh Meta will be consumed. Unfortunately that likely means starting from scratch, with a even nichier community, as far as I can see. Not exactly from nothing, but content loss will be inevitable, which is the Fediverse greatest weakness imho.

Finally finished with Pattern Recognition, William Gibson. It was... nice, it definitely felt like Gibson was uncomfortable writing in the present tense.

Next up is a Brazillian book, As águas-vivas não sabem de si by Aline Valek

Well, I think that if it is done in a tasteful manner, that is, not flooding the community with posts, there is no issue with posting you blog or just copy-pasting here, if you prefer.

Keeping in mind that this is a specific community for original shortform and longform writing, stories, worldbuilding, and other stuff of that nature.

Everspace 1 and 2 are both solid games if you like space exploration and shooting!

Got many advices along the years that have helped me plenty, most have been posted already though. One advice I got along the way that I'm fond of is that your writing should always try to say something. Your truth, your message, your feelings. This one is more aimed at fiction, of course.

@Kwakigra@beehaw.org puts a nail to it.

You need to decide if you want to write, or be an author™. Being an author™ now days is a business, and in a business, you don't write what you want, you write what sells.

The author of the article touches on a few good points that I liked, thanks for the share! However, this is a complicated topic, because to me the center issue is quality, and originality.

Something new is something not seen before. Now days it's hard to believe it still exists, and rarer than it used to be, but then something comes around and you go "oh right". This is even more special in prose, and perceivable, imho.

I work on the field, I am also a writer, and I have played with composing stories using LLMs. The reality is the quality is at best a B, and thats if you give very detailed outlines, tone parameters and instructions, adjusting, generating and regenerating responses. Basically, it just felt like a lot more trouble than actually writing the freaking thing myself.

For revision, it does a decent job with finalizing drafts, but get some experience with a real, good editor, and you will see the world of difference, it's too silly to even compare.

Another issue, and this one I heavily believe is the reason we have seen an influx of optimistic, positive look stories now days, is that GPT guidelines prevent it from going into dark places, working around the bad side of the human mind and behavior. This is like cutting the whole point of writing prose to me.

Now, the real issue is that, with good marketing, this at best B, always positive, meaningless piece of entertainment, is more than enough for high execs trying to make a profitable quarter.

So yeah, AI art is crap, and it is killing authors.

It's its own thing. I spent some time over there, but the UI didn't click, doesn't look like a good mobile experience either.

Bruce Sterling is definetly a must read for fans, but Schismatrix and Mirrorshade published after Neuromancer, which explains a little the popularity difference I would say.

There are of course plenty of excellent books not mentioned, and for that I would recommend the Best of Cyberpunk list.

For this list I just wanted to keep it short and digestible with the books that brought new turns or depths to the genre, kind of like the gateway drugs of the genre. :P But as it is with all things regarding knowledge, it definetly is limited by the knowledge I have consumed subjectively.

Oh yes, manga and anime has done wonders to the genre by bringing more of a oriental point of view to it. They deserve a list themselves. :P Akira, Gits (before the massive commercialization it received), Texhnolyze and Serial Experiments Lain are the cornerstones of japanese cyberpunk to me.

They only really need mastodon.social to be on board, as their brand itself can do the rest to compete with twitter, so this discussion is kinda of moot.

I personally don't like it for mastodon, that will definitely lower the standards and bring a lot of advertising wether we like it or not. For other fediverse communities however, I think this is a good thing. It will be much easier to bring the people we want to it once the fediverse is more "popularized".