Might be a confusion. The self hosted community has such a rule (tagging AI projects in the title). Since this is a post about a self hosted app, people might have thought they were in that community instead.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

My deal for AI slop taking all our jobs is universal basic income and medicare for all.

If I don't have to make money to eat, or have a place to live, or for medicine, then fine. Steal all my shit because then I can spend my time making art and giving it away to people.

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Woah, I’m not advocating for free speech absolutism, you’ve misunderstood my position. I want more empowered/activist mods as well, all I am saying is that it isnt simple.

The problem with “set the rules and enforce them” is that the assholes will rules-lawyer the mods into the ground. They’ll post stuff that the flirts around the edges of the rules, and when punished for it, will harass the mods relentlessly via yepowertrippingmods.

There’s no quick and easy solutions here.

is that serious? what the fuck is wrong with people

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

@ai6yr @EugestShirley
C’est la vie

I have one regular hammer and a tiny little hammer for putting up picture frames that makes me feel like a wuss every time I use it, so I just use a rock I keep around instead.

I held a framing hammer once and that was a hammer and a half. I haven’t earned the right to get my own though, so I’ll just appreciate from afar.

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

I really want the inside of this card to read “we’re going to need a bigger sleigh” but it’s for our youngest niblings and I’m not sure they’ll get the reference

@flockofnazguls The easiest way around these issues is just not to connect it by MIDI, but it is =so= much better for driving the patches in the Roland Integra 7 than my 88 key piano.

It's a bit of a pain. Its predecessor, the Korg Wavestate, had none of these issues.

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I disagree with everything you said and I poop on your enjoyment. Just kidding, howdy.