I am making the insane people Facebook one really fun these days.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
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Just browse all and take the time to block every community you don't like the content of
Yeah, so much furry porn and hentai it's not funny
Lemmy is very small in comparison, although every time reddit manages to do another silly thing Lemmy grows leaps and bounds. It's a slow investment in a better internet, and it's going to take a long time to slowly show the world that corporations don't have to control everything on the internet.
That being said I'm partial to [email protected] , it's rockin' (...and climbin', and glidin')
Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can't really recommend them. I just browse all.
I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It's hard to get 10 people going here.
Be the change!
Are you suggesting a Multiplicty type scenario?
Like...making a bunch of clones of yourself to date Andie MacDowell??
If you can, I guess...I just meant, post a lot. But the clone thing is cool too
Hopefully reddit will keep fucking up and lemmy will grow. I really like it here with no ads but miss feeding my niche interests on the reddit subs. Most have subs here but they are just empty.
I was on reddit since 2006, and left a year ago.
Lemmy pretty much sucks because of a lack of content. The communities are there, but they're...sooooo quiet.
Join the communities you're interested in and ENGAGE!
Same.
Not just is there a lack of content here, but the echo chamber effect is so much worse here than it was on Reddit.
We need to save people from reddit. Ask other users to join Lemmy. People who create memes should flood Facebook, instagram etc with memes to move to Lemmy
To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.
Why would they risk user's sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.
The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.
Ah, I missed it was an ongoing payment, I thought it was a single payment for a db export, then it makes sense to erase comments
You could look for foreign communities who speak different languages and practice speaking to them through Lemmy if you wanted to.
For the longest time, I’ve pursued languages and was just posting on foreign-language communities because I like to learn them and I seek contact with foreigners just to practice my languages.
Mostly I posted in Spanish and German having learned some of those languages growing up and more recently when I took up learning on Busuu.
Where I live, Spanish is a more common foreign language because of our Hispanic population and my family too. I also used a DNA kit that showed me what heritage I had (Mostly English and German but I inherited some Mexican from my mother’s great grandmother from when I was little. So that’s also why I pursue languages.
I also pursue them as sort of a hobby of mine.
This is just an idea I had in mind from my recent activity here on Lemmy. I’m actually on lemmus.org and moved from lemm.ee but I seek contact with some foreigners for my languages.
Maybe join lemm.ee or lemmus.org if not that?
I'd use Lemmy Explorer to find communities that interest you. The link I just shared is sorted by subscriber count, so it should show the most active communities at the top.
Thanks for sharing my website! I'm glad people find it useful 😁
Thanks for creating it!
^This is the way.
It also auto searches "trees" FYI
Haha, that's cause the url he copied included his search 😂 https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=trees&order=subscribers
That's kinda hilarious. I was looking for cannabis related communities too. Believe it or not, I haven't had any cannabis today, either. 😄
I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.
We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won't be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I've got a bridge to sell them.
Reddit's deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it's free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Yeah that's the thing, part of the reason why I'm so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it's exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.
That’s a sort of realpolitik view of the web, based on using tech and engineering convention to control information flow on the web.
But the web standards we’ve used to regulate things aren’t in agreement with the new legal framework people are trying to implement, and if we allow them to make their legal argument unopposed, they will add new layers to the tech to change web standard behavior into dystopian centrally controlled network behavior.
I agree the web is an open platform, and I agree that copyright law is clear. But these people are not operating on trying to follow existing rules. They’re trying to create new rules, and they have the power to do so.
And no, they do not RTFM . They think a greenfield rewrite is the best move for society, because they have zero respect for the engineering decisions of yesterday, not for the challenge or the value of maintaining existing systems.
Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?
I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.
Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.
I’ll take:
- UBI
- Free drugs
- Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
- Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
- AI being trained on copyrighted material
- AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
- A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
- Simple government
- Red commits
Try the Lemmyverse community search and use whatever keywords you are interested in. Subscribe to a bunch of communities and see if that brings interesting stuff to your front page. If you notice you’re seeing uninteresting stuff from certain communities, unsubscribe to those and keep on refining.
Also, if you’re interested in unexpected factorials, here’s the community for you.
It’s still pretty small and quiet, but anyone is welcome to post their factorial observations there.
Also the voyager app has a service to find similar communities based on your subreddits
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