Sounds like the supreme court ruling is just the thin veil needed to justify doing what they wanted to do anyway.
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Defederation is the choice that prevents the mod team from having to do a lot more moderating.
Sure, it is the most "extreme" option out of what a federated server can do, but anyone who really wants to participate in conversations with Hexbear can join any other Lemmy server that federates with us. Anyone who really wants to see or interact with our content will be able to.
So really it is us deciding the reach of federating with that server is worth less that the expected moderation effort. Not very extreme IMO.
The hope of getting a Chinese visa is the only thing keeping me going at this point.
Forking is what you do when you take an open source project and create a new parallel version that implements some behavior you want.
Usually you try to merge your changes into the original project, but if they won't accept them, you create a fork of the project.
This is wishful thinking at best and completely delusional at worst.
This came off as far more hostile and insulting than I intended. Sorry for being a dick.
The human cost of WWIII is even more bleak than the west being lost to neoliberal capitalism forever.
Building dual power is probably the only way to circumvent this, which would necessarily include communication systems. Given that the fediverse is completely vulnerable to LLM spam bots, I don't think we have the means to implement this via anything that exists now.
Chicken and egg problem with needing to reach people to stir development or get people off proprietary comms systems. I don't think western left has the juice to do anything required for revolution, and we probably have the deck stacked against our success than most revolutions that have failed.
i'd say "normies stop using the internet" is less out there than the white western left doing a revolution.
You fail to account for the possibility that the white western left does the stupidest revolution imaginable. Doubtful, but a revolution that doesn't completely threaten bourgeois interests could succeed. Maybe then the conditions could be met for our October revolution.
In reality, neither of these will happen. Only way either of these happen within our lifetimes is if a civil war destroys enough of modern internet infrastructure.
Our only hope is China maintaining course and leading in artificial intelligence.
IMO capitalism in the west cannot fall before the fall of bourgeois owned social media and big tech, so we are probably doomed forever.
But the future for the global south and AES is bright.
The only upside to the US trying to instigate a war in Taiwan is that if China or the US bombs TSMC, all of this becomes immediately financially infeasible.
This is the only way capitalism will fall in the imperial core, unless we wait decades for China to massively outpace our AI development, completely change their foreign policy, and deploy better LLMs in the west pushing revolutionary counter narratives.
This is wishful thinking at best and completely delusional at worst.
Internet is required for virtually every aspect of society right now. You think people will stop using the internet when it is required to find a job or hail a taxi? Offline mechanisms to do those things and others are only becoming more rare with each passing day.
Maybe people will give up Facebook, but even believing that is likely is naïve.
Causing widespread distrust of one of the few means of grassroots information dissemination is an absolutely massive W for bourgeois interests.
LLMs will be the biggest hurdle to proletarian revolution going forward. Having any sort of messaging reach the masses will become impossible, and bourgeois counter narratives will be trivially deployed any time revolutionary moments have the potential to lead to changes that benefit the proletariat.
Posting internet comments is the one form of media that proletarians can easily participate in to reach the masses without outright gatekeeping by an editor. Yeah yeah, mods & admins can remove comments/posts, and algorithms can fuck with their reach, but generally, discussion can exist without too much intervention.
It was absolutely apparent that disrupting this was an explicit goal of LLMs from their initial outset.
This creates an asymmetrical playing field where corporations and NED orgs can spend lots of money on GPU farms to push their messages, but prole groups cannot nearly as easily.
LLMs also trivially allow these same efforts to interface with the only platforms uncolonized by corporate algorithm fuckery. So even if we built ourselves a life raft with the fediverse / Lemmy, we are still trivially subject to large scale influence operations, even if less valuable as a target. It seems like big tech is aware of efforts to avoid corporate control over public opinion, and LLMs are the immune system response to exert control on platforms they don't own.
There is no component of "AI" that doesn't stack the deck against the proletariat. Look at the most common use cases:
- Image / video generation: used to circumvent the need to hire artists, designers, and photographers disposable and to dump successful ones back into the reserve army of labor.
- Code generation: used to make software developers more disposable and to reduce the salaries of some of the only well paid proletarians.
- Text generation: used to manipulate public opinion, present ideas as originating from individuals or grassroots efforts, and frustrate any conversations that threaten your investments. Eventually, this scope will expand to creating shitty replacements for any worker whose primary job is to interface with others via natural language. i.e. therapists, doctors, consultants, and experts of any kind.
"AI" is exclusively a threat to the proletariat. The potential use cases used to sell it will never come to fruition because it doesn't benefit those paying to deploy "AI" systems.
Unless the machine learning project comes from an AES state, you will never see "AI" to detect cancer, assist people with disabilities, or reduce the cost of anything sold to consumers. Those use cases will die in academic journals, never to hit the market.
LLM projects are currently being provided at a loss to end users to make them indisposable to the workflows of their users. Like with social media, once the market penetration is near universal, LLM and other "AI" services will be exclusively used as either spyware or adware or require ever increasing subscription fees.
Anyone excited by "AI" systems is either bourgeois or a rube who doesn't understand that the benefits will be systematically used to eliminate what little influence they can exert over bourgeois society. At best, these systems will become marginally better or more useful internet comment regurgitation machines. At worst, AGI will be built to fit the needs of a class that seeks to enslave us all, at which point subjugation will be total and unavoidable.
We must make sure an AES state (i.e. China) leads in artificial intelligence.
Although obviously you'd disagree with that statement
Don't disagree.
We don't mind opposing information insofar as it isn't spammy gotchas or reactionary attacks on marginalized groups.
Removing "vuvuzela no iphone" and "communism bad tianmen winny the pooh" comments prevents this place from being the same annoying fight fest that every other liberal social media platform is.
Good faith discussion isn't a bad thing, but removing tired low-effort garbage is necessary to have a space where we can focus on our own discussions without derailing into having the same debates over and over. Most of those types of comments aren't good faith anyway and those users just want to stick it to us rather than explore ideas.
Hopefully someday we can reunite with you if feddit.uk changes or you make an account on another lemmy server.
For some of us, this bubble is the only place their identity isn't under constant attack.
Bigots and liberal ideas exist everywhere. We won't miss anything by excluding them.
Creating a total commie bubble within a liberal society would take so much fucking effort that suggesting that blocking safe havens for bigotry prevents us from seeing important ideas is actually hilarious.