I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
Same lol. Was basically just waiting for something new to pop up, was already using lemmy for a bit before reddit cut third party apps and made the transition that much easier.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
idownvote because 99%afthe time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boringI* of*
Can I has downvote please?
i didn’t improve my english with your corrections, it was just annoying
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
no. it’s a disagree button!
The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse
But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them
I wish there was more porn
Have you checked out the ai generated porn?
To import new communities on an instance into the all feed, go to places like LemmyNSFW and look at what is active, any community that says “pending” when you try to subscribe is waiting for the instance synchronization bots to make the community available. Once this happens, everyone will see the community in the All feed for your instance. Indeed there are a lot more porn posts happening, you just have to be a little proactive about finding them.
… I know… Uhhh! Effort?!
but we all have to take some ownership to be here. This is like, the only service reddit ever provided and now, to make this place work, we have to do it. I’m the reason a couple NSFW communities are on .world, so this is not a hypothetical. There are many other instances for NSFW content too.
Points for honesty, but how does one find exploitation free porn? I know some smart women who would say there is no such thing.
So being a sexual creature like any other, I get it but also maybe it’s OK if that just lives on pornhub or whatever :)
It’s hard to find. I disagree with the anti porn feminist stance, but I respect it. In fact Dworkin is one of the feminists that I respect most despite disagreeing with her on this topic.
So how do you find it? Find exhibitionists or independent purveyors (or worker owned porn cooperatives). One of my exes used to sell nudes and she enjoyed it. But yeah it’s very difficult to be certain.
Personally though, I prefer to stick to the written stuff. Much likely to be exploitative and plot gets me wet.
The answer is these days I mostly don’t. No judgement though :)
I would argue that AI is in the process of creating the most exploitation free version of porn. The things you see posted here from AI diffusion are mostly amateur. I can make far far more realistic images but it takes a thorough understanding of AI alignment and why very strong alignment was needed to conform to cultural expectations. I won’t go into the ethics of base datasets except to say there are many things that can be generated that had no real world analogue.
What I initially wrote:I’m old and nervous, and while some small part of my brain reads this and says “Cool! Neat!” the larger part IMMEDIATELY leaps to other … things.
I feel like I need to say the quiet bit out loud here, and will do so in the hope that it will be taken for what it is - collegial discourse around a topic of shared interest.
I’m super concerned about this idea. There are so many ramifications that verge into the negative here that it makes my head spin.
How can we be sure that the training corpi used to create said Porn AI will be free of images drawn from sex trafficking and/or abuse victims? What about images from folks who gave freely when they were 18 and in high school but now are 28 and applying for jobs as school teachers?
Also, how will the AI “understand” things like informed consent? Even more questionable are things like social norms
Anyway, it will certainly be interesting to watch this space evolve.
I think it will take shift to liberalism forcefully, but also real versus digital will shift. It means far less need for workers to have many questionable partners in the analogue world. There are presently biases that try to prevent several behaviors but there are ways around these. Ultimately, it means a shift to a culture where being naked is irrelevant and no petty nonsense stigma associated with an image. People are stupid about this stuff anyways. If you get your rocks off by seeing me naked or doing whatever, that is on you. If you start harassing me with that stuff, that is another issue entirely. If I find something disturbing, I have a right to ask for its removal, but ultimately this is the price of public imagery. If you do not want to have your likeness replicated, do not post publicly. This is the only effective way to regulate the behavior. The technology is already public and open source. That can never be eliminated; only driven underground which is exactly where the few people willing to exploit people are located. Regulation ultimately makes the problem worse. Normalization is democratization, and that is the best result for everyone long term. It sucks for people that have a large public image, but deep fake type images were around long before diffusion. This is simply easier access to the skills required to create such images. It will soon be video as well. Allowing anyone to control this tech is a massive mistake anyways. It is a global academic advancement in math and computer science. Any country stupid enough to attempt conservative regulation simply makes their nation technologically irrelevant because the research will continue external to the Luddite nonsense. The way AI develops in the next decade or two I’d the most important technology of the first half of this century, especially in the military implications. Restricting this space is about the dumbest thing anyone could do right now. You are likely to see the era of AI drones that kill and are effective autonomously at scale. That alone changes everything in the world as we know it. One in 3 FPV drones hits a target in Ukraine right now. They are ~$800 each. A single artillery round is ~$10k and they hit a target far far less often. When the FPV operator is no longer needed and an AI is just as effective…
All of this is relevant and interrelated where innovations in one area of AI get applied to others as they are all similar math problems. How people feel about the tech is irrelevant in the grand scheme. So a massive shift in culture is inevitable, or WW3, maybe both.
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i dont know how you define exploitation here. reddit had girls and couples posting their own content while driving traffic to their onlyfans accounts. pretty valid if you ask me.
lemmynsfw is great but there’s not a lot of users at the moment.
i don’t think pornhub or whatever needs to be the only option for sex work on the internet.
I’m all for more options for sex work. And I certainly have no puritanical objections to consenting adults enjoying the idea of others enjoying their bodies!
I still have my Reddit account but haven’t logged in since the Rexodus began and the only reason I haven’t deleted it yet is laziness.
Lemmy provides me with links to news I’m interested in, Linux information and memes whilst satisfying my scrolling itch.
Most of the political stuff that pops up isn’t really my bag and some communities are too US centric for me but the beauty is you can just block the communities you don’t like. Also, there isn’t as much new content posted daily but it’s much smaller and niche than Reddit so I’m happy for that trade off.
It’s like Reddit before the “protests”. But smaller, with fewer niche communities and less porn, but also fewer OF promoters.
I still use old.reddit to read some of the niche communities, but I’m not even logged in.
When old.reddit dies, I’ll probably try to revive some of those communities I’m reading over here in Lemmy. It probably won’t work, lol
Well it’s been 10 months since I left redis and spun up my own instance. It’s been a fun little ride with a very fast surge at the start and a bit of a plato. Lemmy seems to be gaining traction again, which is good.
How has it changed me? - I guess I actuall spend more time here than I did on reddit - as I find the quality of comments far better and more enjoyable
As an admin / owner I have had to see and deal with some stuff that I wish I hadn’t had to see - there are some sick fucks out there
Sorry you’ve had to deal with those things.
I am happier, and better able to analyze situations with a clearer mind.
Haven’t really. I’m just like I was before. Lemmy meets my daily social networking needs and I don’t miss anything.
I bought a mobile game for the first time in my life 😐
I check FB more often cause I run out of posts on lemmy faster 😐
Started playing chess again cause I have little else to entertain myself with on my phone 🤓
I was so dismayed at the state of mobile gaming I just read from Wattpad and Royal Road instead
I now use the /S all the time just in case
For the better :)
I haven’t been active in online communities for over ten years. It’s been fun to contribute with comments and posts and I feel like I’m finding my voice again.Given me a newfound distate for Linux users/evangelists. Like the vegans of the tech world
Still just a lurker. I enjoy not seeing the same thing spread across a bunch of places.
It’s okay. I still peruse reddit sometimes because the subs here aren’t sufficient enough. Also, reddit has more variety. Lemmy is a bit too political. Like /c/news seems to only post political stuff. And it’s mostly liberal leaning (which I am), but too liberal occasionally. People hate nazis here but curiously, they also hate Israel. I’m looking for more communities that are less intense and charged. Stuff about crafting, plant rearing, literature, etc. The other big fediverse site, Mastodon, has a similar prevalence of charged stuff, but I’ve found a bit more silly things both on my own and with suggestions over there. I suppose I could start some new communities here but I’m doubtful I have the fortitude to make them get increased traction.
Just start em, and post what you want to, steal posts from reddit if you like too (but not automated like the annoying ass bots), and if it grows it grows. I’m one of like 4 people posting in c/comicbooks, and if it grows great but if not that’s ok too, all we can do is try.
Same in some of my hobbies. I’m like one of 3 posting in !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world but if people like us don’t post, it won’t grow at all, so got to try! I do need to do it more often.
I don’t mean to start an argument about it, but hating Nazis and hating Israel are not mutually exclusive. Hating Israel is antizionism, not antisemitism.
I feel ya. I tire of the politics here, and it can get extremely left leaning, like pro-communism/pro-socialism/
pro-fascismand very anti-American to the point where it’s a little sus. I get it, there’s always been anti-America sentiment surrounding conversations and in media all my life, but it’s a bit extreme here.I go onto social media to turn my brain off, not do elaborate research on the past 500 years of colonialism so that I can make sure I’m accurately arguing my point cohesively on this one comment. At the very least, I’ll engage with conversations about tech when I’m not turning my brain off, but I hate politics/debate. I want a DDR/Stepmania/Etterna community where we can discuss new themes released, new songs on various cabinets, etc.
Fascism is not even close to left lol. But I agree there’s too much politics sometimes. I don’t mind arguing about it but it could be good to talk about other stuff. I suggest subscribing to communities that advertise other communities so we can help them.
!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl !newcommunities@lemmy.world !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Also browsing by scaled sort has helped me discover some new communities that my instance is connected.
And of course: https://lemmyverse.net/communities
I know just finding a new community doesn’t guarantee it will have people in it, but we have to start posting in those empty communities and filling them with content. It’s something I need to do a lot better with, too. I lurk too much.
Not seeing my reply show up, so doing it again in case the previous one got lost in the abyss: Subscribed to all 3 just now and I’m looking forward to enjoying some new communities! Thank you!
Glad to help! I wish us both luck finding and reviving our favorite niche communities! I don’t want to have to go back to Reddit lol. I want this whole fediverse thing to work out.
Well said, I agree with you. The politics/debates can be so intense that it can prevent Lemmy from being a place where people go to just relax and switch off. Even the meme communities have so much political content.
And I suppose it’s only going to intensify during the U.S. election later this year.
Besides, there are Ashkenazis in Israel so… /S
I still use reddit from time to time, but I find the stuff i find here is of higher quality and more thoughtful. I would use Lemmy exclusively if it had all of the communities that i frequent on reddit, many of the things on here are tech-related and most things outside of the tech world don’t pop up in my feed. I feel I engage more, use more and actually learn more from Lemmy so overall I am quite impressed!
I hate the idea that most people have on lemmy that every interaction has to be a positive experience and full of sunshine and rainbows and butterflies. I like to argue.
But whatever. It’s iight. I stuck around.
I’ve seen some really good arguments here, with both sides being respectful and explaining their perspective and concluding that they understand each other but just don’t agree. It’s pretty refreshing. If you don’t like that kind of thing you’re just stupid and wrong.
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I disagree with your comment. Change my mind.
lmao
Debate me, betch. ;)
