Looks like the instance went down a bit earlier than expected
FYI, if you want a defed vote, just start it. Any member with access to vote can open a governance thread. https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/README_manual.md#governance
If you don't feel confident about opening the thread ofc, you can always request one of the admins does it.
Goddamn that person is really a piece of work
Piefed already tried exactly that and had to revert because it's indistinguishable from vote manipulation
Not really a design choice. It's just not possible to hide due to federation
Please follow the instructions for this community. This post is way too vague
Early lemmy was not good at telling people if their application got rejected. Now you should know
My plan for old age is the collapse of civilization.
Joking aside, I don't consider pensions "passive income" as I've been actually paying money all my working life. I do consider the whole pension system a joke and a scam most of the time and it can actually be exploitative, but at least those in it typically have to be productivity most of their lives. But ultimately the pension system should also be scrapped and replaced by a straight up social net funded by the state, if we're talking about staying in capitalism.
My point is, even a racist bridge has uses as a bridge. The solution is not to tear down the bridge, it's to address the systematic racism. Likewise with GenAI tech, we are not involved in making it, nor do we promote that the way it was created was correct. We just say that people using it are not necessarily reinforcing the problem, anymore than a random pedestrian crossing that bridge would be reinforcing racism.
Yes, the way the tech was created and is being used, is problematic; an imperfect creation of a deeply flawed system. I'm not disputing that. I'm disputing that any and all uses of an imperfect creation are by necessity "fascist"
I feel the author routinelly conflates technology with technological implementations to make their point. For example, they conflate surveillance, with camera equipment and they conflate bridges, with city planning. What me and others are pointing out, is that we're not hostile to GenAI as the technology (like cameras, bridges) but we're absolutely against the popular (i.e. corporate) GenAI implementations.
I feel there's no harm whatsoever to use GenAI to personal gratification. Games, Porn, Shortcuts on boring but known tasks etc. But there's absolutely harm to using corporate AI to do so, and there's absolutely harm in using it for purposes outside of it (facts, propaganda, agents etc)
And yes, any technology built in capitalist systems, will be inevitably corrupted from its inception from those systems. This is not exclusive to GenAI as a technology however.
We don't consider that.
My comment was removed for "misinformation"
https://crazypeople.online/post/18266774
Apparently the mod likes using euphemisms for their extracting wealth from other productive members of society and really dislikes being reminded.
Cross-posted from "hell yeah" by @dickalan@lemmy.world in !fuckcars@lemmy.world
The video I linked for reference
I guess I was "sympathizing with invaders" because I said "Such an absolute waste of life, just for the vanity of one man."
Just patently ridiculous moderation...
Cross-posted from "Is this true for you?" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world
Cross-posted from "Fair point" by @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone in !autism@lemmy.world
Hello again peeps, I come back to you with more exciting news. After last months vote passed to accept quokk.au as a member of the FAF, the vote on their end only just marginally failed for a 1-vote tiebreaker. The primary reservation people expressed back then was not wanting to follow the FAF defederations/bans as many people chose quokk.au explicitly due to their defederation list, particularly of Marxist-Leninist-friendly instances like hexbear.
Given however that there was willingness from admins on both sides to collaborate and provide mutual aid to each other due to our shared values, we went back to the drawing board to find a compromise. The main issue was that we wanted a way where we didn't want to sacrifice the tight integration of the FAF proper, but there is also an option "softer" version of the flotilla integration, which is less technical and more political.
So we came down to having two different tiers of membership in the flotilla
Consorts: These are the fully integrated members of the FAF. For all accounts and purposes, they count as a single instance, as they follow the same rules, bans and federations and their members get voting rights on all proposals. I.e. the original vision I proposed.
Companions: These are the more politically-only aligned instances.
Naturally a Companion instance can at any time become a Consort by simply on-boarding existing FAF defeds & bans and therefore immediately get future voting rights for those as well.
After we reached internal consensus on these two tiers, we then re-approached @Quokka@quokk.au to see if that would cover their reservations and we're today happy to announce that they've officially joined the FAF.
On a personal note: It's been always my passion to grow a system that is not only technically robust, but also politically as well, and the only way we can achieve this is by reinforcing the mutual aid ties between aligned actors, while providing enough independence for self-expression. This is yet another step in that direction and I hope it can lead to more versatile fediverse structures like feeler networks and whatnot.
Cross-posted from "MAGA getting rekt as antifa super-soldiers use next-generation tech to chase O'Keefe and his fascists out of Minnesota. This will spread to every major city as soon as the weather warms up." by @xijinpingist@hexbear.net in !technology@hexbear.net
Throwing ICE bottles, that's brilliant! Hey, fascist! Catch!
Eh, there's not really much urgency here. It's not like these actions are driving our users away.