“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
#Reddit demodded me as head of /r/piracy in order to reopen the subreddit. I posted about it in /c/piracy on #lemmy and today I realized this achieved our first 1K votes threshold 🎉
It's a good time to remind people of the bullshit asymmetry principle: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
As someone who grew up poor and with very little access to global culture, I shake my head sadly with those people who talk about #AIArt with the same moralism people were making against #piracy.
This didn't work then, it won't work now. People without money or time can't and won't support artists. If their only option is to use ML tools to create and share what is in their brain, they will do that instead.
All the arguments against this are privileged "you wouldn't download a car" territory
#Lemmy admins don't have the tools to deal with it, so a lot of them are deciding to shut down their instances or de-federate widely.
As I've went through a lot of pain with that stuff, I've built something which can help fediverse instance admins to go through their object storage images and delete any potentially problematic ones https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2896209
You can now self-tag your instance on the #Fediseer
You can use that to discover new instances to join, or to help you filter out instances focused on subjects you might not want to deal with (e.g. "gore" or "piracy")
The fediblock account is stopping operation because mastodon.art retaliated against their parent instance with silencing because of a credible #fediblock report deduplication by @fediblock for .art , until the admin behind the fediblock account steps down from their own instance? And that admin is actually quitting the fediverse? WHAT?!
Mastodon has some wild drama I'll tell you... I'm glad I'm a #threadiverse addict instead.
It's a fine balance. For a #fediverse service like #firefish, or a custom one like the #aihorde this needs so many skills, it's very difficult for one to know all of them. You need:
Just started a lemmy community for reporting instances to block. The #lemmy version of #fediblock if you will. The benefit is that it allows for concentrated discussions on the topic of blocking that instance.
My anti-spam #lemmy automoderator bot #Threativore is now available as a docker container and it is now fully enabled for reporting, removing, and banning. Here's my lemmy announcement: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15112791
Man it would be so cool if there was a support network who handle all the stuff #ADHD people are incapable of doing which would cause massive impact to their lives. I spend almost all my free time coding #FOSS to improve the global commons. It would be great if someone who gets value out of my work would help me in turn with state paperwork. 😢
#LLM and #AIArt give incredible power to the underdogs who never had any money to pay someone to create some. Some many solodevs who had pretty much nothing to use except garbage clipart and a few public assets which usually didn't fit their style.
Sure the same technology will be abused by corpos to get rid of all those pesky humans, but we all know the quality of AI is not AAA. What works "good enough" for an indie, doesn't work for a multimillion production.
A ton of the successful FOSS projects I see have dedicated people doing social media all the time. @reduz from #GodotEngine is micro-blogging constantly (on Ex-Twitter) which is a great help for keeping people talking about Godot.
But when you're a small project, its a ton of extra work with a skillset a lot of us are not at all comfortable with.
Do we have a heuristic scanning service we can hook into with a REST API to tell us if a message/comment is spam or not, or is this another thing I need to build myself? Thinking of something like akismet but not available only for wordpress.
HIGHLY recommend Fediblock for user '@MKULTRADiamond' as they're tagging random users and spamming porn with no CW. Receipts attached in the screenshot.
Edit: The whole instance is Freeze Peach. Toss it in the trash.
