Are you doing your part?
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One problem with tankies though is that they basically are right-wingers, just on the left, i.e. they are in form if not content.
And then both sides of that extremist divide drives away the 80% or so in the middle somewhere, leaving the platform empty due to the "Nazi bar effect" (you may choose to ignore the actual Nazis as you sit in your own little corner in a bar, but how can you invite your friends, especially Jewish ones, to come to such?)
Purity testing will continue until morale improves (i.e. short sighted thinking does not realize that certain modes of treating especially newcomers to a place will effectively kill it off, eventually leaving solely the "pure" remaining - except nobody is truly pure so realistically it will leave almost nobody).
There are many true leftist places here on the Threadiverse btw including slrpnk.net and dbzero. And there, I just did purity testing myself:-), although due to the Intolerance Paradox this must be done in order for any type of community to be made.
Maybe I dont actually know what a tankie is. What is commonly understood to be a tankie here on this platform? I thought it was specifically the subset of ML who thought that stalin was right to send in the tanks? Am I missing something?
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Genuinely curious, theoretically how valuable would a once and done service install of a private open source machine learning model on your local network that can do that skimming functionality be for you? A private box thats setup and just works? Is that even something people would want?
Very useful, especially for static pre-2022 information. If these models were <5GB in size, I'd happily have the model always sitting in memory on my raspberry Pi waiting for me to ask it something.
For newer data though, you cannot beat the army of trawlers and the constant retraining that the commercial models offer... though given the nature of the steadily poisoned information sources post-2022, their effectiveness in this is steadily diminishing.
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Like I get the meme, but maybe rethink it? It’s also giving
Welcome to 2025 where the platform that promotes nazi rhetoric are the victims.
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I did a few times before I figured it out.
Me too, only my hatred grew my resolve
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Me too, only my hatred grew my resolve
That's what did it for me. The admins are the trolls and protect their troll buddies.
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I saw bluesky take off and get millions of users right away. Appearently they have 38 million users now.
I guess advertising works...
Bluesky isn't open tech. The masses will flock to low barrier to entry walled gardens. They can have them.
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Lemmy doesnt have any proper discussions though. Its just memes. Personally i have to check reddit to actually get proper content to learn something from.
But still, Lemmy is at least not big tech!
Honestly I like the conversations here, it reminds me a lot of the old internet.
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It is the barrier to entry - most people probably stopped on "choose a server".
The concept of Lemmy being servers was easy for me to understand (thanks MMOs, I guess?), but having to jump through hoops to actually sign up with many of them was the primary difficulty. Nobody wants to have to write an essay on why they should be accepted to a server.
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It's sobering to consider how tiny Lemmy is. Both the Linus Tech Tips forum and the Crackberry forum are bigger and more active than all of Lemmy together.
Back in the day, even something niche as the Blitzbasic forum was bigger than Lemmy is now.
It's probably a good thing too, since both performance and in the way moderation needs to be done on Lemmy is so inefficient that it's right now already at the point where instances are getting closed down because they can't handle the workload and cost.
Lemmy being small works for me. Reddit is horrendously toxic now, so I'll occasionally lurk, but refuse to interact with it. I don't want Lemmy to become Reddit.
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The concept of Lemmy being servers was easy for me to understand (thanks MMOs, I guess?), but having to jump through hoops to actually sign up with many of them was the primary difficulty. Nobody wants to have to write an essay on why they should be accepted to a server.
I wrote one sentence
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...and Star Trek.
There's no arguments about that, other than the murder
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Like I get the meme, but maybe rethink it? It’s also giving
Yes but "the fashion"
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I wrote one sentence
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Lemmy doesnt have any proper discussions though. Its just memes. Personally i have to check reddit to actually get proper content to learn something from.
But still, Lemmy is at least not big tech!
I don't agree. Do you mean that you require us to do it or are you just not engaged in it?
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Okay then, you put 'atheists' alongside racists and child pornography which is what would get people's backs up.
No, I can put atheist alongside racist and cp because the front page was full of atheist posts > Racist posts > CP. No this doesn't mean all atheists.
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He's referencing /r/jailbait which was super popular on Reddit till they banned it.
I found the existence of the sub fuckjng appalling but it was also arguably a big part of the enshittifstion of Reddit. Like. I hate that it existed but it wasn't illegal.
It wasnt illegal if people only posted girls over 18 but thats not the case. There were a ton of under 18s being posted. When it was banned the sub pivoted to some like "fashion" sub and continued posting under 18s and 18s for plausible deniability.
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No, I can put atheist alongside racist and cp because the front page was full of atheist posts > Racist posts > CP. No this doesn't mean all atheists.
I meant "alongside" in terms of "as bad".
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It wasnt illegal if people only posted girls over 18 but thats not the case. There were a ton of under 18s being posted. When it was banned the sub pivoted to some like "fashion" sub and continued posting under 18s and 18s for plausible deniability.
I stand corrected then.
I thought its whole loophole thing was that it was legal which is why something that disgusting wasn't removed.
I don't know how they didn't remove something that was actually illegal from the site earlier. Double gross. Evil. Ew.
I doubly don't understand why something that was illegal wasn't removed WAY earlier.
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Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!
that's what .ml stands for, right?
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I stand corrected then.
I thought its whole loophole thing was that it was legal which is why something that disgusting wasn't removed.
I don't know how they didn't remove something that was actually illegal from the site earlier. Double gross. Evil. Ew.
I doubly don't understand why something that was illegal wasn't removed WAY earlier.
The issue is when the entire sub is filled with people who look young enough to be under 18 its very hard for admins to tell when they're actually under 18. After the ban the fashion sub posted people clearly under 18 and used the excuse that its fine because they're clothed and they're just reviewing the fashion.
