My definition of AI is coming from books and media, unless it exhibits actual intelligence it is not an AI. Building a sensible sentence from large amounts of data while not understanding what it is actually saying or whether it’s actually correct or consistent does not make an intelligence.

This makes me irrationally mildly upset.

I loved writing on actual paper when I was younger. I miss it but the truth is that its simply inconvenient when we all have auto syncing smartphones and pcs with ability to edit and copy paste and all of that.

I only bring out paper when I need to visualize something complex and it’s usually a mess by the time I’m done, and indecipherable by the next week.

For me jerboa still opens them in browser every time :S

You can always use Google to search reddit content though, and that’s actually the preferred and optimal way to do it. Afaik that doesn’t work with the fediverse since every instance isn’t going to get indexed?

This is the thread I’ve seen talking about it https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781, I didn’t really go further into the subject.

I think people responding to this with “just defederate them” or something in that vein are missing the point - the software lemmy is still being developed by “potential” tankies. It’s not just an issue if they will ban you from the main instance if you speak against CCP, they decide what gets added to lemmy repo and in which direction they take the development and who’s allowed to contribute.

I don’t know enough yet to make a decision about it so i’m using both lemmy and kbin for now. Just wanted to point out that “ignore them” is not really an answer that solves everything. And besides, it is always good practice to be skeptical about who you’re giving your data and money to on the internet.

But it still means if a single user on a small instance is subscribed to a massive media instance, they alone will generate tons of traffic and storage requirement… Seems really weird

I think it’d result in a genre civil war :D Game genres are vague or not properly defined at all, and furthermore many modern games just combine them anyway.

I think if it’s a big enough community having an instance for themselves is pretty good. That also lets them split it into memes, modding, lfg, roleplay or other subgroups more easily. I just don’t see how would any of these communities actually fund it, it is hard enough to find good mods that volunteer them time to the community, less alone their money too.

Same, but I have a feel that Beehaw might not be the place for them considering just how many communities we’d need to cover all of them. I’m really hoping a gaming instance pops up soon that we can federate with, I wanna my r/guildwars2, r/warframe, r/stellaris and others to see the updates and memes

I think there’s been talk of implementing “multireddits” so you can combine them in your own feed but who knows when it’s coming. I personally think it’s good to have the communities as segmented as possible, if one goes to shit then you can easily just stop participating there and move to others.

I don’t see an issue with slur filter either but from what I’ve read it was hardcoded and couldn’t be customized by other instances. Can you explain the reasoning behind that, why not let instances decide how far they want to go with their censoring policies? In my experience the only good moderation is manual context-aware moderation done by a person, text filters accomplish nothing except making people come up with slang terms or other workarounds. Seems weird to have this policy enforced in this way.

Ohh, I see. I thought lemmy was the only one with the following-communities-over-people design.

beehaw.org assessing kbin as an alternative

What does this mean exactly, what is kbin and how does it fix the problem vrojak is talking about? You’re still using code developed and maintained by lemmy admins, no?

I am not worried about socialism, I am personally anti-capitalist too, at least in theory. I am worried about their extreme anti-NATO and seemingly pro-putin propaganda. If they kept these private I also wouldn’t mind it but they literally named the tech after their ideals. Ignoring these enormous red flags seems naive.

Or maybe you’re right - I’m misreading the situation and people like me who are bothered by that just shouldn’t be here in the first place, wrong place for us.

In any case, don’t worry too much about it, their software is open source so if they suddenly turn evil, a fork is enough to fix it.

I am not going to get into this discussion since we can’t know what will or wont happen but I am sure that maintaining a project like this requires much more than committing a bugfix to a fork.

I have to say that I had a really rough whiplash when I saw what kind of communities the admins of lemmy have created and are maintaining (I guess that is what you mean by tankies). Absolutely shocked that this is the credo of people making this “open/free/not controlled by company” software. A company might be preferable at this point >.>

These 2 people are the ones we’re supposed to put the faith into to maintain and develop the framework and architecture for all these potential sites? If we fund lemmy we fund them, if they give up then nobody else is probably going to take over, it sounds like a disaster just waiting to happen.

And okay, nice to hear that beehaw is blocking those communities but we’re still federated with everything else there, if I’m understanding it correctly, and it’s the same users that can easily cross between the instances? That’s not very reassuring either.

I’ve gotten this suggestion too but honestly it made mastodon a horrible experience for me. I’d get personal emotional comments from every random John about a subject, often barely relevant too because they’d just tag literally dozen(s) of hashtags in their every post. I had to start ignoring people one by one but it’s just not feasible when its one of the more popular tags, they kept coming and coming.