I mean, it wouldn’t be a shooting war. Probably?

What it would be is the greatest diplomatic incident of the century. The United Stakes would steadily become the next Best Korea, like Russia did.

And maaany more.

OK. Very hot take.

…Computers can produce awful things. That’s not new. They’re tools that can manufacture unspeakable stuff in private.

That’s fine.

It’s not going to change.

And if some asshole uses it that way to damage others, you throw them in jail forever. That’s worked well enough for all sorts of tech.

The problem is making the barrier to do it basically zero, automatically posting it to fucking Twitter, and just collectively shrugging because… what? Social media is fair discourse? That’s bullshit.

The problem is Twitter more than Grok. The problem is their stupid liability shield.

Strip Section 230, and Musk’s lawyers would fix this problem faster than you can blink.

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Imagine where Epic would be if they had just censored Tim Sweeney’s Twitter account.

It’s like he’s hell bent on driving people away from Epic. I’m not sure I could be more abrasive if I tried, without losing the plausible deniability of not trying to troll.

Orion is mobile. So is Cromite.

DDG is pretty good too. I like its approach, with a UI that encourages whitelisting sites.

Start posting. Please. I am begging you.

• An American tired of wallowing.

It’s addictive. It’s not like I haven’t steeped in it either.

This is what I keep hammering; people can’t help themselves, especially under stress. Perverse engagement incentives need to be fixed structurally to give us a fighting chance, otherwise Lemmy/Piefed will end up like Voat and all the other Reddit clones.

On the contrary, I’ve made a few (not a ton) of what I thought were interesting news posts, but they don’t seem to gain traction.

I think the deeper issue is ragebait works, very well. The community seems to be content with that, and Lemmy/Piefed devs aren’t structuring the site the counter it.

I have some posts/interests that I think would get some visibility. In my case, it really is executive dysfunction, heh.

Not that you’re wrong. And, unfortunately, its a ludicrously profitable highway outside of the Fediverse.

Lemmy doesn’t assume anything. Sorting is done by votes or activity from all communities; the intent is for the user to subscribe to communities to curate their feed. But blocking works too.

I don’t know precisely how Reddit works now, but it used to be like that as well. There was no interest algorithm, no suggestions, other than a bit of vote count nonlinearity. It just had the quirk of defaulting to a few select subs in “hot,” instead of “all” like most Lemmy/Piefed instances do.

I am late to this argument, but data center imagegen is typically batched so that many images are made in parallel. And (from the providers that aren’t idiots), the models likely use more sparsity or “tricks” to reduce compute.

Task energy per image is waaay less than a desktop GPU. We probably burnt more energy in this thread than in an image, or a few.

And this is getting exponentially more efficient with time, in spite of what morons like Sam Altman preach.

There’s about a billion reasons image slop is awful, but the “energy use” one is way overblown.

Yeah. The .world news community mods don’t seem to care about clickbait, misinformation, calls for violence or doxxing or rape, as long as they’re the “correct” politics. Calling for Ivanka Trump to get shot? Serious deepfake meme? Perfectly acceptable, apparently, in spite of the admins’ pushback.

But make a comment like yours, and the moderation is… that.

I haven’t even blocked the tankie communities or anything, but I had to block /c/politics, as they’re so active they pollute my feed.

I’m fine with leaving that part of Lemmy permanently blocked though.

Yeah. We have monkey brains, and overcoming intertia is hard.

I think the site could be better structured to address this, specifically by organizing communities into a “taxonomy,” so posts from niche interest automatically filter up into bigger subs. Thus, participation would feel easier/more enaging, and folks would have more focused and active niches to participate in.

Making that suggestion on the Lemmy/Piefed repos is on my messy todo list.

…I am drifting away from Lemmy myself.

Political communities are echo chambers like Reddit, in a different color. Discussing tech or helping others is better, but still feels like talking in circles.

Wholesome subs like /c/SuperBowl are sublime, but I mostly lurk there.

Information hygiene is awful. Big subs upvote tabloids and Tweets to the sky, as long as they align with their beliefs. I just saw a discussion on a not-obviously AI generated photo with the community sentiment of “misinformation? Who cares. It’s a pro-lefty meme, so spread it.”

Anyway, all this scrolling and impulse commenting eats time. I get the same feeling of shouting into a black hole that I get on corporate social media.

Much of this is my fault, though.

I have several niches I intend to make original posts for, but never do.

It’s somewhere in the giant pile of my IRL executive dysfunction :’(

To those asking “which browser other than Firefox”

https://helium.computer/

It’s fantastic. It’s Chrome, stripped of junk, with full (not lite) Ublock Origin natively supported and shipped. What more could you want?

And it can coexist alongside Firefox.

Cromite is also great, but its antifingerprinting is so hardcore it breaks some sites. That’s perfect for shopping/private browsing, but a bit much for daily driving unless tracking resistance is your #1 priority.

On iOS and OSX, Orion (from Kagi) is sublime. It’s Safari based (which you want for Apple stuff), but heavily modified with a native blocker, and supports extensions if you really need them. There aren’t many Safari “forks” like it.

I say this because I’ve been through a gauntlet of trying a bunch. Bromite, ungoogled chromium, waterfox, pale moon, Thorium, Vivaldi, all sorts of iOS apps and Firefox/Chromium forks. And these feel like endgame to me. Helium is just about perfect (as long as its development isn’t dropped), and Orion is close aside from some UI quirks.

Orion is great.

So is DuckDuckGo.

Valve’s margins are almost criminal as-is. They make cash hand over fist, and they’re basically a monopoly already.

…So not much might actually change, at least at first?

But this why they don’t need to go public. They have plenty of cash. And it’d just shrink the slice of profit Valve’s owners get.

Still, even private, I’m afraid of what Steam might look like if big competitors like EGS and Microsoft footgun themselves out of the market, and GoG fades away due to their DRM-free policy.

Oh, sweet summer child.

You just wait.

It’s especially bizzare when git repos for “open source corporate alternative” type software uses it over their own repo’s issue trackers and forums.

WTF

They want the social media engagement, I guess. But still. It’s ridiculous how much of a blind spot folks have for it.

It also makes giving or getting any kind of support a hellish time sink, but that’s almost besides the point…