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Are there any good and well known examples of this at a large scale, beyond Wikipedia and it's projects?

Not that Wikipedia is not evidence in it's own right that it could work, I'm just curious.

The good thing is that the DIY people don't need to reinvent the wheel - you can just fork an existing project and shape it into what you're interested in. There's are already some bare bones implementations around that lend themselves well to building things on top of.

Of course not arguing that making it simple isn't a good thing - but the reality is that interoperability between platforms like this is a complex challenge, and even though nothing is perfect ActivityPub is doing a pretty neat job making it a reality.

Science is also creative writing. We do research and write the results, in something that is an original product. Something new is created; it's creative.

An LLM is just reiterative. A researcher might feel like they're producing something, but they're really just reiterating. Even if the product is better than what they would have produced themselves it is still more worthless, as it is not original and will not make a contribution that haven't been made already.

And for a lot of researchers, the writing and the thinking blend into each other. Outsource the writing, and you're crippling the thinking.

I think it's more that they tend not to get invited to non-monkey PNG meetups. Possibly in part due to their habit of turning any meetup into a monkey PNG one.

It is perfect. I feel bad for these idiots, but not quite bad enough to manage not to laugh at them.

"'I woke up at 04:00 and couldn’t see anymore,' said @CryptoJune777."

The guy with the red cap ape profile picture casually asking if anyone else ended up in the ER.

crypto_birb thanking for "great apefest logistics", while encouraging his peers to seek medical attention ASAP.

Comedy gold.

I mean, you're quite clearly paying for the lack of features here.
Which makes the 8 ball even dumber.

Then again, I'm not sure people are hungry for that - most of them just want old Twitter back.

They don't actually want any of the underlying issues to be resolved, they just want to feel relevant by screaming at each other in the void.

I really appreciate the resentment for Mozilla of all things. It makes no sense whatsoever of course, but at least it's colourful.

Roger Daltrey of the Who in a bath tub full of baked beans, from the album "Sell Out"
"What's for tea, darling?"

I imagine you just broke bernieecclestoned's heart after having been called thirsty and misinterpreting it for years

It would be complete bullshit, but clearly the people on the other end would be too stupid to recognize it as such. So there's really no reason not to do it as long as you're aware that it's an empty threat.

I think you could achieve the same without bullshitting by simply saying "Please delete my data within 30 days or I will report you to the relevant authorities", but each to their own.

Of course there are always challenges, especially with how results are ranked. I have been extremely dissatisfied with the development of search engines for years now. I find Duckduckgo to at least be less bad than Google. Currently I'm checking out Kagi, which at least lets me rank sources myself. Still on the fence though - it does seem to flirt more with AI than with transparency, which has me worried.

But absolutely, it's not that I think the current state of search engines is great either - it just seems to me everything is getting worse and the Internet has entered a death spiral between AI and the enshittification of social media.

Then again, maybe I just reached that age where you start hating everything.