how can the Fediverse grow without loosing its soul in the process?

It can’t? Rather obvious that the “soul” of a community is defined by it’s members and the bigger the community the more mainstream this soul will become. Maybe the federation mechanic offers some solutions here, but that remains to be seen.

We haven’t figured out how to deal with social media at all. We will make even worse mistakes with AI, that’s just how we are as humans.

So more or less the same as with human interactions.

Reddit is just like our all ex.

When ever I randomly open not old reddit, my eyes are just falling out.

Makes sense, nikons video was their weakest point. I actually switched to sony since video was an important feature for me.

Our brain and hand as means of production is kind of all we have left and robotics with AI are in theory there to replace both.

To be clear, my intent in stating it is not to plead for sympathy but to try to give context and further understanding.

That’s how I got it. Without knowing you, your comments sounded judgy and moralizing to me. But with context I can see that it’s not how they were meant.

I’m much more comfortable with fetishizing lacey archaic garments.

lacey - learned a new word today.

Our preferences and perceptions are shaped to a degree (large or small) by our experiences. Mine are most definitely colored to a significant degree by my own early childhood trauma, which makes anything approaching age-play, power-play, and CNC, even just by indirect association in my own thought processes, uncomfortable and unsexy to me.

Even if it means nothing from an internet stranger, sorry to hear you had traumatic childhood experiences. Makes sense that you are uncomfortable with said practices.

I also find scat-play pretty disgusting (tbf, that’s probably part of the kink for some)

We can agree on something here.

It’s sexualizing children in the same way as daddy porn sexualizes incest, you are taking fantasies at their literal face value without looking into what’s going on.

I’m not saying that people are immoral for liking some plaid.

Fetishizing school uniforms worn by children gives some serious Steven Tyler vibes. fetish that seems less “natural”

Sure sounds like you are. And you sound also rather judgy about it. Maybe it’s just a language thing - but at least that’s my impression.

Or SEO is focused on gaming google.

Sexuality is tightly connected to societal taboos, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult - it’s no-one else businesses. There is no need or benefit in moralizing peoples sexuality.

if we’ll have to retreat into a whitelist federation model with invite-only instances

That does not sound bad.

Big tech is teaching us about morality.

Why would it be any different?

Because pedophiles display pathological deviation when it comes to sexual attraction.

For porn in general, yes - I think the data is rather clear. But for cp or related substitute content it’s not that definitive (to my knowledge), be it just for the reason that it’s really difficult to collect data on that sensitive topic.

The question is if consuming AI cp is helping to regulate the pedophiles behavior or if it’s enabling a progression of the condition. As far as I know that is an unanswered question.

Assembly line work sound more soul crushing.

Because that’s where people are?