Here's the author's blurb about it, if it piques anyone else's interest that hasn't read it yet:
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.
Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams...
But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?
Probably something like Tensor Processing Unit. That's a specific Google product, but something along those lines
Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) developed by Google for neural network machine learning, using Google's own TensorFlow software. Google began using TPUs internally in 2015, and in 2018 made them available for third-party use, both as part of its cloud infrastructure and by offering a smaller version of the chip for sale.
Compared to a graphics processing unit, TPUs are designed for a high volume of low precision computation (e.g. as little as 8-bit precision)[3] with more input/output operations per joule, without hardware for rasterisation/texture mapping.
The name flohmarkt is a german word and translates to flea market or garage sale in english. This is a symbol for each flohmarkt being meant to be a small place for a somehow connected group of people. All the flohmarkts willing to federate make up one big place for small advertisements about exchange of goods and services.
My read of OP's question was asking about something they could switch the friend group to. If they don't want to switch to anything else, then they're stuck on Snapchat because that's what they're already using.
It's not part of the Fediverse, but Signal is a good for group chats. It's got reactions and gifs and whatnot, and you can also ignore the notifications you don't care about.
I'm guessing you're also @ask_lemmy@lemmy.world. You should really not create a new account every time you post. It's one thing to move to a new identity every few months or something for privacy reasons, but for every post is a bit much.
Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. Lemmy is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
IMO creating a new account every time you post something is bad form and pollutes the fediverse
For good faith questions, I've got a few that I've been meaning to post to !discuss@discuss.online, we appreciate good discussion. The community's been a little quiet but I'm going to put some work into it. I do specify "good faith" just because it doesn't need to become another "here's my 'unpopular' opinion that is actually popular and i want validated" or "here's why I hate
<minority>
". If you're going to post bad-faith questions, or want to skirt the lines of what's appropriate, that will make my life harder as admin and that's considered a bannable offense 🙂
There's also !AskUSA@discuss.online for US-specific questions. We generally avoid politically-charged topics because there's better places for those, but questions that aren't just "Why does Trump suck?" might be a good fit.
Here's a sample of a few recent popular !AskUSA@discuss.online posts if they pique anyone's interest:
We welcome new users! We've got a signup process to keep out spam, but it's really basic. You just have to answer 3 questions and not have it be obviously AI slop. We're generally pretty quick about approving new users, and if we're not for some reason you can ping me, @jgrim@discuss.online or @lazyguru@discuss.online.
Lastly I'll plug the !AskUSA@discuss.online community that I help mod as well. I just posted the weekly How was your week in the US? thread and asked how many geese everyone thinks they could take on.
Neat, looks like the author got a publishing deal and has a new version of it coming out later this year:
https://qntm.org/antimemetics
Here's the author's blurb about it, if it piques anyone else's interest that hasn't read it yet: