lemmy has become much tolerable after i blocked all the meme communities.
i also block hexbear and beehaw for separate reasons.
The problem is - on reddit, the userbase is large enough that I can decide what I want to talk about. If i want to discuss underwater basket weaving, there will be communities talking about that. lemmy is nowhere near big enough - there’s traction on /all/ but not on the smaller communities.
And that’s exactly why lemmy needs to grow its userbase significantly before it can ever become mainstream.
don’t feed the trolls, just downvote and move on
There’s a difference between a sapient creature drawing inspiration and a glorified autocomplete using copyrighted text to produce sentences which are only cogent due to substantial reliance upon those copyrighted texts.
But the AI is looking at thousands, if not millions of books, articles, comments, etc. That’s what humans do as well - they draw inspiration from a variety of sources. So is sentience the distinguishing criteria for copyright? Only a being capable of original thought can create original work, and therefore anything not capable of original thought cannot create copyrighted work?
Also, irrelevant here but calling LLMs a glorified autocomplete is like calling jet engines a “glorified horse”. Technically true but you’re trivialising it.
lol whats new
This is amazing!
You can always start a community!
yeah this instance allows community creation, downvotes and nsfw - it’s basically the biggest no-nonsense instance i found :)
is there a discord where things are being organised?
Redditor of 11 years here - i feel you.
For what it’s worth, i’m trying to start one of my favorite reading subs (maliciouscompliance) -
/c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance
!maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world
I’m interested in Battlebots too, so if you start one I’ll definitely join!
the only issue now is user engagement. lemmy instances are filled with empty communities. people need to post more, especially in smaller communities.
“fast” is relative. Twitter is dying a slow death, but due to its size there are still millions/tens of millions of users.
Facebook is effectively dead for anyone under 35, and yet it marches on.
wanting everyone in your own walled garden is standard corporate fuckery, but Apple deliberately making the color contrast lower for green messages is just dark.
https://uxdesign.cc/how-apple-makes-you-think-green-bubbles-gross-e03b52b12fed
I live in a tropical country… I would love to cycle to work but (i) roads are a living hell and (ii) it’s hot and humid af and i look like I fell into the ocean after a 20-minute ride.
(i) is fixable with good infrastructure, (ii) isn’t :(
Musk is doing a better job of making Twitter irrelevant than India. lol
Classic gaslighting.
Remember that article about how “millenials aren’t drinking as much and killing beer sales at festivals”? How about you look at alcohol prices and average wages?
yeah, that’s why I signed up at lemmy.world :)
I don’t like that beehaw doesn’t allow community creation (or nsfw).
Is kbin also part of the fediverse? Can you interact with kbin from lemmy, and how is it different?
ahahaha the reason I finally stopped using Yelp was because their mobile site would only load part of a review and would force redirect to their app if you tried to expand on any reviews. Rather than download the app or change user agent, I just gave up.
every website and their mother wants you to download their app nowadays.
technical and moderation features are factors within the admns’ control. growth isn’t