I miss Tumblr. Yes, Tumblr still exists, but the Tumblr I miss does not. This stuff makes me wonder if we’ll see an ActivityPub Tumblr-clone at some point, like Lemmy/Kbin to Reddit, Mastodon to Twitter and PeerTube to YouTube.
Begun, the git clone wars have.
Hm, but it sounds to me like this will be a problem for Reddit’s plans regardless of AI.
If people start churning out upvote-worthy AI-generated content and posting it on Reddit, then Reddit will be happy with all the extra views coming from Google. They won’t mind.
I think “pile of goo that becomes a bigger pile of goo” does seem a lot more plausible than a literal ice cream cone. I’d take more issue with the self-destructing pokeball pokemon, Voltorb. What kind of evolutionary mechanism brought that on?
There’s plenty of games you can just buy and not pay a subscription to. Hell, any game with a subscription is usually impossible to pirate, due to being server based.
Movies and TV shows almost invariably do require a subscription these days, though, unless you take to the seven seas.
Ads can deliver viruses, many ads are animated or have sound, or both. If every ad were static and safe, I wouldn’t mind so much… but alas, that’s not a thing. So AdBlock it is!
And sometimes, justice requires breaking the law. Remember that the Holocaust was legal and Stonewall was not.
Sure, but some places do have more influence on the public discourse than others. Lemmy will remain relatively uninfluential until it becomes more user-friendly, and/or more well-known. So any left wing stuff here is going to have less of an effect than it did on Reddit or other such places, for now.
Interesting style! Reminded me of Jollyjack at first. I feel like you two have a similar use of colour and exaggerated shapes. The meme is funny too, of course.
The Onion, I think?
Yeah, this makes sense. The health of the instance we’re on is our concern too. Since a Fediverse instance is not a faceless entity and doesn’t pull the same capitalist shenanigans on its users, the users will probably be more willing to support it with donations if they see something like this. Many other donation-funded sites have something similar.
Initially, it’s probably fine to have it included in the server rules blurb on the side, but it should probably just be part of the API for mobile clients, and possibly communicated to other servers too? So if some valuable content is on an instance that’s not doing well, you can deal with that. If it regularly gets valuable content but can’t sustain itself, people might donate even if it’s not their home instance. Otherwise, it can be copied somewhere safe, if it’s basically abandoned.
Okay, this is a good article. I was on the fence about Meta, wondering how they’d cause any damage, and this article cleared that up for me.
That long borzoi snout has been a meme for quite a while now, often accompanied by a “let me do it for you… kermie”, a snippet from a Muppets show where Miss Piggy sings to Kermit, at a high pitch.
My last two phones both got slow as their batteries got bad, and were basically like new after replacing them. My current phone doesn’t allow swapping the batteries.
For someone thrifty, being able to replace the battery can extend a phone’s life 2x or more. Even if you don’t want to keep using it, you could still resell it or give it to someone who doesn’t need the newest phones. Non-swappable batteries are a form of planned obsolescence, in addition to just being more compact and probably a little cheaper.
Here in the Netherlands, we only tip for fancy restaurants, if the service was good.
Hey, let’s not be insulting. Sometimes it’s a hot glue gun and a soldering iron, used purely for melting through plastic.
FMHY now has an updated rule: “4. Self-Promotion is fine, but please keep “donation” links in your bio.”
I have replied, asking about watermarks and other ways of reminding people to look there. Though I think watermarks are pretty much gonna have to be accepted anyway, as they’re necessary to deal with people reposting without credit anyway. So you could just have a visible artist tag somewhere on the art, have a link in your bio, and it should be alright?
Edit: So yeah, watermarks are totally fine. And other reminders to check the bio for a link might also be? Just got a “yeah that’s fine” and I’m not sure if I can actually re-read my own messages to Kaizen. Anyway, the main point is to prevent people from spamming links, apparently.
While FMHY isn’t an art-focused instance, I’ve had a pleasant interaction with one of its admins before, so I poked them (Kaizen) about this.
They’re necessary, but any power will always bring a chance that someone will abuse it. So I usually prefer moderators with a lighter touch, that talk to their users before taking more controversial actions.