I find the technology interesting but AI as a social phenomenon has been abhorrent.
I think most of us here have a similar view. Plagiarism machine is accurate, but that’s what a Google search looks like to someone from 1985. Not that I don’t prefer getting linked to information sources rather than getting incoherent slop.
I’ve not hated using local image generation to mock up ideas or turn around a private joke meme with friends. I have hated every advertisement bombarding me with nonsense buzzwords and leaders at work not understanding the technology. But I’m not an artist or writer whose work is getting chewed into a machine that gets all the credit. And I’m not a woman who could be blackmailed (or at least be robbed of agency) by fake nudes. Machine learning is a power tool, unfortunately people are just bastards.
You'll have no trouble blocking AI here. This instance federated with almost all others and leaves it up to you to block them how you want. I will say db0 is my favorite instance so far.
Why is it your fav?
And I also don’t love how ai images go into all other communities here though but I prefer the piracy
For one it has a cool name, the mods here don't cause much drama (that I know of), the users don't brigade threads like with Hexbear, and piracy is celebrated unlike other websites. Ultimately I hope you find what you're looking for even if it's not this place
EDIT: Almost forgot. /0 doesn't censor what you read like with lemmy.ml (e g. "bitch" reads as removed).
brigade threads like with Hexbear
Gondor has called for aid?! Rohan will answer!
As a more serious response: we... don't actually do that. It's not a coordinated thing. There's no Secret Hexbear Discord Cabal where we congregate and conspire to raid an instance and be dickheads. It's organic content from real people.
Very early on (years before federation and the Reddit exodus) we made a decision to remove downvotes from our instance. We were having a serious problem with trans users being anonymously bullied by a small number of bad actors downvoting all their content. So, we purged those assholes' accounts and turned downvotes off. The intent was to encourage a culture of active participation by de-anonymizing disagreement. If you want to disagree with something on Hexbear, you need to say it out loud in public.
Post-federation, other instances interpreted that as "brigading". It isn't. If we see something we think is bad, we tell you, instead of just pressing the "I Disagree" button. I understand that isn't to everybody's taste, and I don't blame anybody for blacklisting our Lemmy instance—we intentionally buck the trend of passive scrolling through social media. If you just want to share some memes and have a lark, Hexbear probably isn't for you. And that's fine! That's what's cool about Lemmy—you can just shut off a community you don't like!
(And, anticipating responses: yes, I am aware that there's a small segment of Hexbears who seem to enjoy inter-instance drama. That's true of all instances, though. We regularly see the same kind of behavior from visitors back home, too. But, we've got a culture of being extremely vocal. So our assholes are loud, too. And if something is organically popular enough to show up cross-instance, they'll dogpile on it. Sorry about that.)
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the enforced anonymity of up-votes and down-votes(and the seeming concensus that "this is a good thing"). Whether I can articulate all of my opinions or not, I definitely don't care to take the time to do so with all of them, particularly when they've already been spelled out by others(yay up-votes). A stupid number is easier to ignore than a well-thought-out(or otherwise) wall-of-text, that spaws others.
Personally, I have no qualms about blocking someone over their up-votes and down-votes, and anonymizing, or disabling, either, just seems to make it easier for trash that can keep quiet to hide. Personally, I identify with Marjory, so I guess it evens out.
TL;DR: I'm all for giving (biggotted)trash the lowest-effort-possible ways to out themselves, provided the rest of us can act upon it.
... but y'all seem to have figured it out within the constraints of the Lemmy system, while I'm still reeling at the notion that this seems to be the best thing out there with any traction among the masses.
You can get a bunch of funny posts, the moderation is really good, people typically say what they think and aren't cowed into saying what is expected and so I like to believe there is some version of free thought happening. I like it, it's been a good experience. Yeah I blocked all the random stuff that I didn't like and it wasn't a problem. Any instance you choose is going to have something that you find obnoxious for whatever reason and you're going to have to block those communities. Additionally you're going to encounter some random instance that you find obnoxious at the instance level and you can block the entire instance.
Just block the communities you don't want to see. That is the power you have. Use it wisely.
I for one very much Enjoy reading up on AI stuff I'm visually impaired and use AI pretty much daily to read images and memes For me it's been a game changer
Block what you don’t like to see. Block users who you don’t like. Doesn’t matter which instance you’re on.
