Also it totally undermines all the charm of amateur art.
I actually think gen ai is probably going to be really well suited to emulating abstract or rough art, because we humans are great at impregnating even random visual noise with meaning.
That’s not me saying it’s a good thing about ai. Just one more way it can fucking fool us into thinking we’re looking at something that was authored.
I mean it’s much more popular now than it ever would have been otherwise. I’m going to say that even in a hundred years it’s going to stand above its contemporaries.
The story is just so human.
Oh man I remember the debates around this being really illuminating. Like some people really don’t see how heart can outperform technique
My eye just twitched
If ai can start pirating old movies then it’s curtains for me brotherzz 😞
Nice, ty for this list
And because we aren’t chasing profit, mass adoption, or clout here, we can get increasingly local and granular with our instances, and increasingly rigorous about who we let in. Since what we’re chasing is real community, we have nothing to sell out for. And even if some instances do flip over to corpos, we can just defederate and welcome the inevitable influx of departing users.
The thing you really have to look out for in the future is “premium” instances or forks of Lemmy which are paywalled, and eventually locked down to a single instance. It just becomes the next Twitter. It’s unlikely, but something to be wary of once the rest of the open internet is picked clean.
Shame that capital is without a doubt mining our genuine public communications for their wage depressing plagiarism machines, because it’s not like you can get that from the old place anymore.
Wasn’t Ask Jeeves the best search engine?
I think the expression is the capitalists will sell you the rope with which you’ll hang them.
So long as you’re planning to hang them next quarter – they can’t see that far.
A map in your browser with full scrolling and zooming may have been impressive back then, it’s true. But you know what’s impressive today?
$ telnet mapscii.me
A map in your terminal with full scrolling and zooming. 😎
Are you telling me Bonzai Buddy was not really my Buddy?
More of a Gemini person, myself. On Offpunk or Geopard, depending on the mood.
Yo what extensions? I had a really good one that made thumbnails less interesting, and cut out a lot of the CTAs, but I seem to have lost it.
Yup. Mainstream social media is chaos, not community. I would even extend this to fedi if we aren’t careful.
It was for sure toxic af, but a lot less commercial. Actually the early internet was incredibly hostile to corps, but then the banner ads came, and the eyeballs, and the ads started actually making more money than just server costs, and it was all over.
I mean if they’re utilities, we shouldn’t let a board decide what should rightfully be in the hands of the voting public. Really they should welcome a stable (OK maybe not so stable in the US atm, but generally…) owner as the government.