I just saw this new paper on the arxiv:

AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

Very interesting and worth a read!
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

Having mindless tankies parrot ccp and russian propaganda is getting tiring.

@hannorein

I come at this from a broader historical perspective. The English 'enclosures' are often regarded as the founding 'privatisation' of capitalism, because they represented not just the theft of common land, but a change in the legal and ideological understanding of 'property'.

Property is, in fact, only ever a set of legal rights and obligations - which were different in pre-capitalist societies, and in fact still differ in different legal systems, and in the 'common sense' of different societies today.

But there has been a continuous struggle in almost every aspect of life over privatisation. It is still live in any English village where the 'village green' is threatened by 'development' - or indeed in cities where what were once public roads and squares are incorporated into shopping centre developments that have 'security' men on the doors and close when the shops close (revealing their true purpose: to take your money).

Slavery and colonialism were and are forms of privatisation: theft of what nobody previously 'owned' to enable private profit; the first mass slave traders and colonisers were not states, they were the first joint-stock companies.

Moreover, the fundamental mechanism inside the capitalist form is the exploitation of 'externalities': taking what nature and society provides for free and turning it into private property. No major industry today would be profitable if it paid for its true environmental costs - not to mention its use of public infrastructure (roads, schools, police, etc...).

Most hidden of all, perhaps, is the 'externality' of labour: the love and care exercised in family homes and communities, freely, with no cost/benefit analysis, that actually produces the labour force, the 'human resources', as they say.

The battle rages on, in the confrontation between open source, the open web, and the privatising tech giants, and now, of course, around AI: take what was once a common treasury - I use the words of the first rebels against English enclosures - and turn it to private profit.

3 years ago I had to rake some leaves on 31st of December and it was so warm I only had a tshirt on

I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant. The main problem is that it’s quite hard to discover content you want while avoiding content you don’t, Bluesky at least has really good custom feeds that are easy to add (the default feed sucks). Another big issue is the general site layout, it’s hard to figure out how to do things as simple as saving a post for later or how to go back to the feed without being redirected back to the post I’m trying to exit.

Maybe they didn’t see the “Feeds” feature in PieFed? The top navigation menus in PieFed are a bit messy. Although shareable blocklists could be cool too, or maybe toxic?

That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes reading and parsing the site elements unnecessarily difficult (no Lemmy, grey text on a grey background is not good for readability).

I like the Lemmy colors, but maybe it should be easier to change, because they might like the darkly-pureblack theme.

Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

Maybe this is a UX issue of not finding the right feed they would like.

I’ve tried using lemmy and have exactly the same issue. After blocking all the politics stuff, left wing meme stuff and tankie stuff there’s bugger all remaining. Even with all the blocks I’ve made it just seems to be a bunch of toxic left wing people calling each other fascist because of some minor difference in opinion.

I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.

Again maybe a UX issue of not presenting what communities they could subscribe to.

I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.

The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can’t do them either.

(that’s the “Medium” difficulty)

Lemmy v1.0 is adding the ability to do invites, so maybe there will be an invite-only instance that gets some momentum, that could be cool. Invite sites seems like a cool old-internet type of culture.

The fediverse stuff is way too complicated for me, Reddit is very easily accessible and actually has active communities for the topics I’m interested in.

Of course these are naturally going to be all negative because they’re users that bounced off the Threadiverse, but there’s probably hints to what can be improved

Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

While changing people's views when they're antagonistic to the ideas shown is an uphill battle, it may help still to those quietly reading the comments.

@dgar i hope they gave him wings

@peter_koenig Ich habe nicht gefragt, wie es nicht geht.

Ich habe gefragt, wie es geht.

Kannst du darüber noch nachdenken?

@tazgetroete

@_elena The hard part of this problem is limiting myself to three bullet points for my kids!

Still wouldn't use an AI.

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Refactored their existing “enable toxicity mode” feature into a clearer, toggleable blocklist feature

No! The whole point of the fediverse is not to have centralised blocklists. Having blocklists baked in to the code, especially ones that get updated in a centralised manner with no accountability and without telling users they’re on it is absolutely antithetical to the platform and one of the main reasons why people are leaving reddit and coming here. If you want to curate the experience of a user in that manner, what you do is open an instance and advertise it as such. That way people can, at least on lemmy, know where they’re banned from without having to dive into the code or pull API endpoints manually. In fact how a lemmy instance federates and how it curates this experience is one of the distinguishing features among the instances. You have instances like lemmy.zip that federate all that will have them, instances like hexbear that are very quick to defederate in order to keep a safe-space and instances like blahaj that are somewhere between.

A front-end (or any piece of code that is made for being deployed on multiple instances) should be agnostic to all of this. It’s up to the admins of the instances and not the devs to curate and this is one of the main reasons why I don’t trust the piefed dev. Sure you can disable almost everything, but that still means that an admin has to do work in order to get to a neutral place from where they can then curate.

@dansup how are you? You have a good profile can I talk to you

@rolle Kun en tajua teitä niin sekö nyt tekee minusta pahan ihmisen?

Setvi nyt tykönäsi vaan millaiset ihmiset ovat sinukin mielestäsi ihan ok huijattuaan laumoittain muita. Saat tykätä veronkiertäjistä ja ihmetellä meitä joita kiinnostaa harmaa talous, veronkiertäjät, meitä naapureita joita kiinnostaa muiden ulosotot.

Minä en syyllisty kun minulla on puhdas omatunto.

Minä olen uhrien puolella. Myös tuon vastenmielisen Jethron uhrien puolella.

Enkä tajua miksi hän vetää tuota rooliaan yhä vaan. Siitä tulee mieleen ettei se ole rooli. Että hän on oikeasti persläpi, joka viis veisaa muille aiheuttamastaan kärsimyksestä.

@Sigi

@zuggamasta i love when things fall Aparat.

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In this episode Chekov is trapped in an addictive game called ioquake3 though accidentally causes the crew to get space drunk.

@kurimu keine postits mehr?

Not every admin has the time or skill to curate. As long as the dev is open about it and there are configurable features to disable it, I don’t see what the issue is. Ultimately it creates no difference for a user if the admin creates it or the Dev does as long as it’s communicated.

The advantage of the fediverse is “don’t like it, go to another instance or build your own”, not to tell devs what they can and can’t do. Hell I never even interacted with Tesseract since I use a different client and an open instance.