oh god no
I don’t think Lemmy supports community-wide custom theming yet, only kbin. I’d like to see that too though - I went to check the git repo and it looks like someone opened an issue for it just a couple hours ago https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3429
I gave it some more thought and I’m changing my answer to yes to both physical and mental. Mental for the reasons above, physical - well, while there’s a pretty universal idea of what being healthy physically means, the scale between that and physically unhealthy isn’t as linear is it first seemed to me. Is it healthier to lose your thumb or your index finger? Is being deaf healthier than being blind?
So, yes.
Hmm, I see what you’re saying - call me optimistic but I still think the fediverse will keep growing from here. I started writing a point-by-point rebuttal but it started feeling kind of silly with how theoretical this all is, so I’d just like to clarify my perspective:
Traditional social media, being led by a single body whose goal is not to make the best experience for the user, will eventually do something some group of people don’t like. It might be years until we see issues at the level of recent Twitter or Reddit stuff, but the combination of one-size-fits-all rules and aim of profit over people are a poor fit for a universal platform and make problems inevitable. If the fediverse can be a viable alternative for the average user, which I don’t think it’s a stretch to say is likely to happen after a few more years of development, mistakes made by big social media companies will send users over.
Federation means there isn’t a single point of failure; issues that would affect an entire platform are confined to an instance. If a user has a problem with their instance’s management, they only need to go to another one rather than a whole new platform with different UI, none of the same people, none of the same content. Though, tbf this is much less relevant on isolated instances like Burggit.
It’s also worth mentioning that in my personal experience, younger people in particular are slowly moving back towards a more personal and deliberately curated internet experience. Teen mental health especially is at an all time low, and while there are a multitude of contributing factors, we’re realizing that the typical doomscrolling social media experience constantly trying to feed itself to us certainly isn’t helping. I do believe we’re seeing the very beginnings of a larger cultural shift towards the small web and its philosophy - so applying this to the topic at hand, the things people value in a platform can change over time, and my impression is that the direction things are going is one that lines up with the fediverse.
I think there will always be reddit users who use it because they don’t know different, like facebook now. In my eyes Lemmy is already successful in providing cozy places to talk with like-minded folk, though in terms of pure popularity my prediction is that Lemmy and/or Kbin will be at least known by the average recreational internet user within five years, and have an active userbase, say, 25% the size of reddit’s within ten.
But who knows - maybe it’s a fad just for technical people that’ll slowly die out over the next few years, and traditional social media sites will clean up their act and bring everyone back. Only one way to find out haha. It’d be fun to look back on this a decade from now and see how close we were.
Depends on if that includes mental health - how is mental health judged? Depending on who you ask it could be happiness, success, ability to give joy to those around you, spiritual fulfillment, inner peace. Some are mutually exclusive, plus thoughts, emotions, and experiences all raise some while lowering others in a mix depending on the instance.
Physical health pretty linear with some clear ways to quantify it though. So physical health yes, mental health no.
What finally sold me on the fediverse was the idea that its strength is in its stability, not its ability to quickly pick up users. It’s playing the long game; despite its own set of issues it’s much better protected against the kind of platform-killing social media company shenanigans that killed things like digg and are in the process of killing reddit and twitter. I think it’ll take a long time, but as people keep repeatedly experiencing the issues with traditional monolithic social media, a move towards more stable and open platforms is inevitable.
On a side note, it’s interesting which sort of communities migrated from reddit - the people who are fed up with Reddit enough to put the effort into learning a new platform is an odd intersection of groups.
I’m saying there’s an objective standard of what’s beneficial to one’s continued existence, and an important factor is balance with quality of life.
Could you expand on this? I’m not sure what you mean.
You’re right, it does work that way - it’s why ‘a photo of an astronaut riding a horse’ is the standard demo for SD, to show that it can create things it wasn’t trained on by remixing and extrapolating elements. Even without that though, it can do things like turn a cartoon image into a realistic one (or vise versa) with img2img without necessarily needing to know what the content is at all.
Also, it’s possible to recursively train models - create a rough model, use its output as training data for a more refined model, rinse and repeat. I’ve found it works well for getting a strong and consistent face LoRA, but I imagine the same method could be used to create any sort of model without using real photos.
I really like movies! There are a lot of great ones I recognize in this thread, a lot I have yet to watch. Scott Pilgrim, Inglorious Basterds and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly are some of my favorites too. I still need to see Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell, though I don’t watch a lot of anime so my anime backlog fills up fast haha. Here are some of my favorites:
Ooh, this movie looks like fun, adding it to my to-watch list!
Body-wise I’m pretty good. I haven’t been exercising as much as I’d like, been smoking and drinking a bit too much, and I haven’t been eating very healthy; but my threshold for physical discomfort is low and I’m very sensitive to feeling off, so I generally don’t take anything unhealthy too far before I start feeling too yucky to keep on that track.
Mental health is another story. It’s been a rough few years, months, weeks, days. Genetically I’m kind of fucked in that respect, but I’ll also probably be physically healthy into my 80s and 90s, so at least there’s that.
I like them being the 🥂 kind of toast way better haha, I don’t think I’ll be able to see them as 🍞 again
+1 to a welcome thread, that’d be nice!
Yeah, that’s the main part of what I’m saying.
But what if that cut-off leg was bitten by a venomous snake? Or it had necrosis? You’re implying cutting off a leg is objectively unhealthy, but there are cases where the opposite is true.
I guess I would consider gender dysmorphia - I think that’s the right term? whatever the trans feeling is called - an illness, in that I doubt many (any?) people who identify as trans would consider it an enjoyable positive; but I don’t think the same can be said about transsexuality as a whole. To use your leg analogy, I would argue the illness is whatever mentally or physically drove someone to cutting off their leg, be it necrosis, schizophrenia, whatever - cutting off the leg (i.e. identifying as trans and/or physically transitioning) could be either a symptom or a cure depending on the individual case. Granted, it may be more likely to be the former statistically, but that doesn’t make it fair or helpful to call those who truly find peace and happiness in their choices ill.
Huh, your perspective on 5 is interesting. I don’t think I 100% agree but I’ve really never looked at censorship in that way. Some nice food for thought, thank you!
I don’t understand how not feeling comfortable in your own skin isn’t an illness.
To offer an alternate perspective here, I think labeling common parts of the human experience as an illness is an issue in and of itself. It reduces them to a problem to be solved, which, at least in personal experience, isn’t a productive way to approach ‘mental illness’. You can exhaust all the fixes, all the solutions, do everything right, and if it didn’t work? It’s easy to give up. And it encourages a poor way of looking at others, too; people aren’t made of pieces that can be separated out, they’re a single whole that can grow in different directions.
All that’s not to say people shouldn’t seek help and do all the things if they’re hurting, or that there aren’t also positives to giving your problems a name, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a good thing. And to that end:
Like you say people should have a right to talk how they want and treat their own bodies how they want, and I believe people should be able to decide what and what isn’t a problem with themselves. It’s not anyone’s place to say what another adult should and shouldn’t see as something they need to fix. Plus, it’s not like the illness label is applied to all instances of feeling out of place in your body; someone uncomfortable with how tall they are, or short they are, ugly they are, etc etc isn’t considered to have a mental illness by anyone.
Anyway, all that being said, insofar as gender is a social construct it’s not one I particularly support or think is beneficial to society. I think it does more harm than good both in self image and in our image of others. In that way I don’t like how transsexuality reinforces the social framework, even though it does encourage fluidity within the framework. Still, to me, calling it an illness is too far into applying one’s own values to others. People are like oobleck, push and they’ll push back; be still and open to change and so will they.
I think their point is that it’s hypocritical how people often mean that (‘people should be intolerant of things I think are bad’) when saying the opposite (‘intolerance is bad’). For those who do care about intolerance and do think it’s bad - certainly not no one - it’s confusing and frustrating and sad.
The discussion there makes me sad. On a practical level defederation is a reasonable inevitability, but the level of vitriol in there is neither productive nor healthy, for anyone.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
I see parent/child as being okay if the child is a fully independent adult who’s lived separately, and there was zero push for it by the parent. Otherwise it gets iffy quickly.
I can’t say I’ve put much thought into it, but ethically I don’t really see anything wrong with underage siblings or cousins of a similar age. It might not be healthy or practical in most cases, but as long as nobody is taking advantage of someone else.