I’m not really upset over that. If the major platforms become more polarized, I expect that things will get more decentralized over time, which isn’t a bad thing. If conservatives are more able and willing to spend money on online communication, then let them. Everyone has a right to spend their money as they see most fit.

It worked for Something Awful.

How is it shitty? It’ll cut down on spam, massively.

First they left Reddit; now they’re leaving Fandom. Do they believe they’re too big to be overshadowed by Google algorithms?

You seem to have missed the vast majority of my point, so I’ll ask this directly - do you, or do you not, support the continued existence of shadow libraries?

Honestly? A little bit, yeah. More automated tools with greater function will help as long as we can moderate their use.

My real concern is more related to the fact that this will probably lead to a massive crackdown on sources and shadow libraries that have been used as training data for AIs. If this goes through, I see a lot of ML/AI/bots being forced into an audit, and whenever “potentially infringing” content is found, they won’t just remove it, there will be an aggressive push against the shadow library hosting it.

It’s very rare for me to want Facebook to win a lawsuit. It’s just as rare for me to want to see Sarah Silverman not succeed. But in this case, I think the Internet needs to see Facebook win.

No, what I want is r/RPG - a single, central hub for RPG-related topics. Yes, there are also subs for RPGDesign, DnD, DM advice, etc., but RPG serves as both a central community and as a hub for all those more specific groups. There is no way to have a “hub community” on the Fediverse, or to efficiently find all groups which share interests. Groups which had a “largest community” on Reddit will now find themselves shattered and separated. Sure, you can say Federation will save them, but it really won’t. All federation means is that now instead of one community, there’s one per server, and you have to know to subscribe to each and every one of them.

Sure, there’s Mastodon’s Lists feature, which works like a Multireddit, but that’s honestly a lot of effort, and doesn’t cover Lemmy or kbin posts like this one. We need a way to automerge common communities, at least in the user’s view.

How does it seem insane? Genuinely I’m interested in hearing your thoughts.

I understand your fear. I don’t share it, because I miss the community and friends I’ve lost I don’t think they will kill the Fediverse any more than federation will kill Meta. I think many of us will venture to Threads, but still will be be in both places.

As I said, I agree with you. We should have clear laws about how adult video media should be created, distributed, etc…

Sure, just show me the combined DnD/D&D or TTRPG community | magazine | group. It doesn’t exist. There are a hundred, or a thousand, individual groups. That’s not a whole community. That’s a thousand fractal shards, each one with its own voices, independent of one another. Yes, occasionally they do share content or users, but that happens only rarely and with effort. TTRPG Network, Lemmy.ML, KBin.Social, Mastodon.Social, etc., all have various groups dedicated to RPGs. These groups are not able to be combined.

The inability of these groups to combine and independently organizing is a severe weakness of ActivityPub.

I’ve heard it’s going to be connected with ActivityPub. I look forward to it, if people I know who are mostly Meta users move over.

I decided that since they don’t want me using the software of my choice to browse the website, I’d switch to the full intended experience. I’m only using the official software in its most updated form. When the experience is inferior to either web-browsing kbin, Lemmy instances, or Mastodon instances (or using Tusky to browse local views of mastodon instances), I just don’t bother using it. When the ads bother me, I don’t bother using it.

Then again, I also engage with every ad. After all, an advertiser decided that my interests must be in line with theirs, the least I can do for them is click on the linkout, and then ignore all upsells and monetary conversions. After all, if I’ve never spent money on Reddit, and have been a subscriber of FMHY and Piracy, the platform and the advertisers must know I’ll never make a monetary conversion; so they must be targeting me for some other reason.

In a more realistic sense, I click on the ads because most advertisers pay on CPC, and by clicking the ads and not converting, you drive up the cost-per-acquisition, which means the campaign is weaker and poorly optimized. It’s also a problem for brand-awareness plays because when you see the ad get linkouts without conversion or remarketable data, you can be pretty sure that people are now aware of the brand and will actively avoid it. It’s a challenge all marketing faces, actually. You have to get them in a targeted way or you risk burning a future customer.

The more that happens, the more fractured the community becomes, and the easier it will be for a new centralized corporate platform to suck up users. That’s how Reddit started in the first place, and how Twitter started. Heck, it’s even how LJ started. You look at fractured elements of communities, and build a site for the whole community to come together.

Will you pilot the robot start the magazine or not? If not, we’ll just have to send Ayanami out again.

They’re just following rules, man:

Rule 33. Lurk More - It’s never enough.

And yes, the pool is still closed.

My feeling is, these states are making choices based on the beliefs of the elected officials. If the citizens of the states disagree with the elected officials, they have two possible reactions - move, or elect new officials whose beliefs coincide with the majority of the electorate. I have no problem with these state laws. I also have no problem with people moving (as I actually plan to do), to be with people whose beliefs better coincide with theirs. Pornhub absolutely is right to advocate, since they’re a business being hurt by legislative action. I support their right to protest and advocate, and I hope that they’re still making enough profit that they’re not forced to capitulate and do something against their beliefs. I also support the state governments, and hope that the populace will make a clear decision.

I’m not saying this because I disagree with you; porn does need stronger and more direct local legislation regarding production, consumption, and oversight; thus making it “legal”. However, just because something is popular doesn’t make it right. Murder is extremely popular - look at the murder rates around the world, it’s obviously a highly popular activity. Should we make that legal too? At what rate of popularity do we stop making things legal to serve the will of the mob?

@Mattchenzo Basically nothing of consequence to a kbin user.

@tryplot