This fits my profile. I actively browsed and contributed to Lemmy for about 4 months following the US inauguration, but all the useful stuff I want is still on Reddit and Twitter. I still look at Lemmy around once per week, but honestly it seems like there’s a lot more political rage bait and not as much in the way of niche community content.

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If it’s any consolation, the admins of .ml will likely indefinitely host .ml with or without the support of patrons funding the development of Lemmy. Your support or lack thereof will never affect its operation.

Just be at peace with the trades that you have to make with digital privacy to live your life. There are a lot of doomers in this sphere who will tell you that it’s worthless unless you go full Luddite. What you’re experiencing is less of a sober observation of digital privacy and more of reflection of your current emotional state. Just my 2c.

Instead of reflecting on your digital privacy as such, it’s probably more efficient to the overall goal to work on developing your IRL social network and getting to a place of emotional security. Less time spent online seeking a cure for loneliness means a smaller digital footprint.

Hmmm, you might have a case but maybe not.

The US Copyright office currently does not recognize protections for AI-generated works, and for portions of complete works that are AI-generated. For example, if a comic has graphics generated by AI but a script written by people, the graphics and character likenesses, etc are not protected by copyright.

For audiobooks, the original work and the accompanying recording are both protected by copyright. The audiobook is considered a derivative work, so it may still be protected based on the fact that the original work is rightfully protected by copyright.

Literally this … On any group chat with an image embed, link to memes from Lemmy instead of the image directly.

Fediverse can’t sustain many niche communities with its level of activity. Even gaming communities on lemmy don’t have enough traffic to constitute communities for individual games. I can’t do after-episode TV discussions on Lemmy because there wouldn’t be enough people commenting to warrant it. If I wanted to search for a D&D game in my local community (a huge US city), I couldn’t do it via Lemmy.

I can do all this on reddit, which I intend for Lemmy to replace, but I can’t do that yet. So I still crawl reddit for the needs Lemmy can’t replace, but I’d rather never have to open reddit in the first place.

Same is true for every alternative platform on Fediverse. I’m still using all the mainstream apps I intend to replace.

Meme artists slapping a black bar and a new caption on an existing work to transform its meaning:

Feels like AI would really excel in this. It’s personalized argumentation that can basically auto complete for the most statistically likely (ie popular) version of an argument. CMV posts largely aren’t unique, there’s a lot of prior threads to draw from which got deltas.

Read the article instead of responding to the title. It was a university conducting formal research, which created AI bots that impersonated different identities. “As a black man…” style posts in ChangeMyView.

The subreddit mods issued a formal complaint to the university when they learned of it, but the university is choosing not to block its publishing on the grounds of lack of harm.

Yes morals won’t keep you afloat. But FAANG, military defense contractors, and the other most terrible industries waaaay overpay on cost of living, and other industries are also looking to compensate well for expertise (minus some compensation for all the exploitation you wouldn’t be contributing to).

What you’re describing is the development of a paranoid conservative mindset in response to traumatic global events. This is how my conservative Fox News brainrot parents describe the world, and they are the type to own guns because they’re deathly afraid of home intruders even though their city’s crime index is among the best in the country.

Ironically, I think Fediverse suffers from a high amount of tech expertise and not enough project managers, lol. Not enough people cracking the whip saying “users said x feels confusing, what can we do about it?” then establishing timelines and check-ins. Maybe instead of Lemmy devs saying, “we accept nearly every pull request,” they should say, “we want a project manager to help recruit volunteers on specific issues x, y, and z”.

Very big window between participating in society via capitalism vs working directly for, eg. FAANG or a military defense contractor. It’s leaping over every less shitty option to get to the end because that’s what pays best. How funny that I considered writing a pre-reply for this exact comic in my original comment.

Here’s a cleaned-up version of your Lemmy post that keeps your tone but improves clarity, flow, and grammar:

Did they forget to delete ChatGPT’s bit or did they intentionally copy the whole thing lol

I maintain my old hotmail account, but I also have 3 different gmail accounts. I also have a google account associated with my hotmail account so I can do things like keep a calendar and use Google docs with it. I imagine lots of people don’t realize you can make a Google account with an existing email, so they just switch.

There was a lot of energy around strategy when I joined in January (can you guess why? Lol). The limiting factor seems to be chosen participation. Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless musing.

Here were some threads in my message history I found insightful: https://lemmy.world/post/25512565 https://lemmy.world/post/25553607 https://lemmy.world/post/27824597

I’m not really skilled in anything relevant, so my strategy has been:

• On mainstream social platforms, point out any hint of enshittification and follow up with a recommendation toward a specific Fediverse alternative.
• Link directly to discussions or articles I found on Lemmy that I thought were worth sharing
• Building partnerships in my existing communities with the corresponding Lemmy communities to encourage user flow

The point is outreach to the other platform. Sending engagement to this video on YouTube will boost it due to YouTube’s algorithm. More exposure on YouTube = more potential new PeerTube users. Publishing this on PeerTube is preaching to the choir. As an alternative platform, you always need to maintain a presence on the main platform so you can encourage people looking to leave.

If you have the skillset and CV to work at Meta, you have a choice to work somewhere slightly lower on the scale of exploitation.

I was asking myself, where are the other 1275 acres? 1280 acres is 2 square miles. There must be farmland outside the downtown area bought for this project, in which case it’s not really a community garden. The area pictured could maybe make fresh produce for 2 households over a year.