My issue is those “smaller communities” for my niches withered away, lost in the depths of SEO and attention machines.
I’m not innocent there. I stopped participating in many in lieu of Discord and Reddit which, in hindsight, I feel sick about. But the draw of phone pings and algorithms and critical mass is very powerful, and that temptation didn’t exist a long time ago.
I agree. It honestly makes me mad that people get in such a huff over using generative models for fiction; they’re just another generation of storytelling tools.
The issue is blurring fiction and reality.
This isn’t just a problem with AI. See: influencers, tabloids, and “news” that sell caricatures of reality.
But AI makes it too, too easy to distribute fakeness in spaces that are supposed to be real. That is very dangerous. And this is what it ended up being used for.
Nowadays i know much better how to verify information that’s important to me; a dogs picture licking a cat which makes her purr will always emotionally positive for me, because a) it doesn’t matter outside of my satisfaction, just like the well told story.
…I think I’ve used generative models enough to get desensitized to the “feel good” bit. I guess I felt like you once, but having peeked behind the curtain, the feeling has gone away.
But if they make you feel good, good. That’s what arts supposed to do.
It’s still a fantasy though. People aren’t in control of their phones/feeds.
Heck, we can’t even get the world to support JPEG-XL or HEIF or anything, much less take RAW pictures.
And Twitter has convinced me there is absolutely no line these services can cross to get people to quit.
Sure. But I can make my own AI image of a cute dog, and where’s the satisfaction in that?
Hence, I think it cracks open a bigger issue than AI: the ‘illusion’ of authenticity on social media. Our squishy brains doomscroll with the fantasy that the stuff is real, and candid, and honest, and gems we found…
But that’s never really been true.
It’s largely staged content designed to go viral and make someone a buck. Or sell something. And it’s served by billion dollar algorithms designed to model and hijack your brain.
My hot take: people are upset that slop smashed that illusion with a hammer. Social media has been addictive fakeness for years; it’s just glaringly obvious now.
I have a business idea:
Vintage social media.
Only media that verifiably exists on the internet before 2021 is allowed. That’s still billions of cute animal photos and videos.
EDIT:
And a sister project: RAW-only social media. Only photo/video uploaded as raw sensor data (which even phones can take now) is allowed. Metadata is stripped, and they’re post-processed by the site.
Why? RAWs are technically possible to fake, but difficult enough to deter lazy slop spam. As a bonus, they can’t be heavily edited either; they’re unprocessed, unglamourous slices of reality. And they can be served in HDR with modern compression, as a cherry on top.
…Now I just need a few billion dollars to host it, and about a trillion to survive anticompetive attacks.
No Linux client for that either, though it seems to be planned.
A lot of communities have rules that posts need to be titled the same as the source article, which, while it prevents editorializing, it also brings all those ragebait headlines here. Plus I’d like to see Lemmy users’ opinions moreso than an article I could just read myself.
If half our content is just reposted mainstream media, why would one expect our comment sections to look any different than the comment sections of those mainstream sites?
I agree with the sentiment but disagree with the prognosis.
In my experience, the ragebait articles around here are largely from the same sites. Rawstory, mediaite, dailybeast, some of The Guardian’s more indulgent pieces. I won’t presume to know why the posters post them, but they’re ragebait to start.
I don’t even see “Big Media” like Reuters or local news or whatever get upvoted much. And as longs as the news sections aren’t mixed up with the opinion ones, IMO they’re more professional.
The accurate title rule is great as long as posters pick more journalistic articles instead of opinion pieces or reposts. And if they don’t there’s no fixing that anyway.
I’d probably prefer more of the political post to be thoughts/feelings and then discussion is backed up by decent articles
And I straight up I disagree with this.
There are tons of talking heads with opinions. But journalism rooted in sourcing is much harder. That should come first, or at least come with an opinion in the OP, and then the discussion can be built around facts.
This is an option.
The problem is, while faster on paper, its not really any faster than my 3090, especially in spots where I need its performance most. It’d be a downgrade.
I could get a second 3090, I guess, and have some redundancy in case one fails. But I’m on an ITX board with 1 slot.
I’d be WAY more interested in a roughly equivalent 9000 series or Battlemage card, but alas, there is none.
Yeah, this is generally my philosophy. I have exactly 1 user blocked, as well as a pure bot community or two.
But the problem for me is magnitude. With its sheer number of upvotes, /c/politics is blotting out my sun, reducing diversity; it does no good leaving it in my feed.
Oh, I know. I bought my previous GPUs in the peak of cypto busts.
But I need 24GB… My plan was to eventually buy a used 4090 when they get cheaper, or 24GB Intel/AMD card. But it doesn’t feel like AMD/Intel are interested in big GPUs anymore, and the 4090 just keeps going up in price.
Eh. Firefox is fine.
The only FF fork I’ve ever used for some time is Cachy Browser, as it shipped with my distro and was ostensibly amore optimized. But even they depreciated it in lieu of vanilla Firefox.
And Firefox gets faster security patches anyway.
I’m more interested in Chrome forks because it’s Google spyware. And, as much as I don’t like it, I find Chromium-based browser to be faster. That doesn’t matter so much on desktop, but the difference is pretty dramatic on Android.
Ungoogled Chromium does not support full uBlock Origin. Last I checked, it wont auto-update itself on Windows without a 3rd party tool, and I remember it having some other “quirks” from the stuff it strips out. The delay for security updates seems pretty minimal, too.
And personally, I like the bangs feature, now that I’m using Orion on iOS anyway.
But its based on ungoogled-chromium, so if you prefer to use upstream, that makes a lot of sense. Helium’s main pitch seems to be an “easier to install” ungoogled chromium anyway.
Orion syncs cross platform, DuckDuckGo does as well. And I believe you can sync with extensions.
So I FOMO bought an SSD and SD card when all this started.
Not regretting it.
…But now I’m considering hoarding a spare GPU. Is that nuts? I don’t need it, I don’t want to hoard, but If my old Ampere card suddenly dies, is it gonna take $2000 to replace?
I like Lemmy as a “zoo”
I like seeing nuts and weirdos and niches and stuff when I scroll by. It feels like the old internet. And I also find that lemmy.ml has good discussions outside tankie politics, so I don’t want to block that out.
Problem with the main political subs is that they’re so big they flood post sorted by Active, Rising, or New Comments. Their tabloid garbage crowds everything else out.
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.
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.
Davinci works better in Linux. Vapoursynth mostly works better in Linux.
RAW photo editing is already horrible in Windows if you’re trying to do HDR. To be fair, it’s horrible in Linux too. As much as I hate it, they can’t touch Apple there.
See this post I just made: https://lemmy.world/post/41751454/21613633
iOS will render HDR JPEG-XL, AVIF and tiled HEIFs straight out of a camera; no problem. Heck, it will even display RAWs in the photo app. But it’s a struggle on Windows and Linux.
And if by “professional use” you mean “Adobe,” I view that in the same way as still being on Twitter. At this point, subjecting yourself to Adobe on Windows is something you should do through gritted teeth.