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  • That’s the problem. I can see a future where very few users and trolls “opt-in” to fediverse integration and for a while meta doesn’t rock the boat and actually contributes to the fediverse as a whole.

    But Zuck would have us under ransom. All he has to do, if the fediverse starts threatening his business is turn on all accounts for federation, and it would quickly overwhelm the small independent operators. The fediverse would essentially be controlled by meta.

    It’s the parable of the frog and the scorpion

  • Even if you aren’t against federating with threads on principle part of the challenge is going to be able to keep up with moderating their entire user base en-masse and being able to afford the cost of federating content from so many users at once.

    It’s a burden I doubt a lot of smaller instances can handle.

  • You create a new account on a new instance and then you export your subscriptions and settings from your old Lemmy server to your new ones, you lose your comment history but that doesn’t really matter on Lemmy like your post history does on Masto

  • I'd suggest getting therapy. Perhaps explore anxiety medication. Having anxiety over conflict across the world that you have no control over and have little effect on you is not healthy.

    Getting high is not effective self-medication.

  • Maybe you guys are getting downvoted for conflating Lemmy on the fediverse as a whole with Lemmy.World.

    These actions don't affect anyone not on Lemmy.world, assuming db0 federates with you, !piracy is still there for you

  • Great thing about the fediverse is that you have options when admin/moderation actions occur that you don’t agree with. If Reddit were to remove /r/piracy then we’d have no recourse

  • There is a 3rd argument which I think is a bit more valid in "I value the service I receive in exchange for my personal data"

    Using the internet without an adblocker, noscript, and whatever else is really nasty. But even if you aren't on these platforms, marketers are still building profiles on you. Honestly we need data privacy legislation and some real talk about marketing and the costs of using the internet as a society.

  • It doesn’t matter how many locks you have if you give the scammers the keys. And so many people give up the keys

  • If a user mutes an instance you still have to worry about a poorly moderated instance that federates illegal or harmful content to yours or worry about harassment to other users,etc.

    Defederating should not be used nonchalantly but it has its place.

  • It’s not bad parenting if cultural norms have shifted in a way to not participate in it would cause you kid to suffer more anxiety and depression from being ostracized from it

  • From what I’ve been told it’s only query-able from the db and not from the API

  • Well put. I think tackling the bias will always be a challenge. It’s not that we shouldn’t, but how is the question.

    I don’t know if any of the big public LLMs are trying to trim biases from their training data or are just trying to ad-hoc tackle it by injecting modifiers into the prompts.

    That’s the biggest problem I have personally with LLMs is that they are untrustworthy and often give incorrect or blatantly false information.

    Sometimes it can be frustrating when I run across the “I can’t do that because of ethics” on benign prompts that I felt like it shouldn’t have but I don’t think it’s been that big a deal.

    When we talk about political conservatives being opposed to biased LLMs, it’s mostly because it won’t tell them that their harmful beliefs are correct

  • Yeah that take wouldn’t get you banned from lemmygrad, surprised they didn’t make him a mod for that take tbh

  • How to you curate training data to remove biases without introducing bias? That’s the key problem here. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be opposed to trading one bias for another. At least the initial bias is based on reality.

  • It’d be like asking Hamas the same question, clearly we shouldn’t judge the Palestinian innocents on Hamas’ views, nor should we judge Israel on this guys views

  • Those companies don't own your backups and can't stop you from moving your instance somewhere else. And if you don't have a backup then it doesn't matter if you are running your instance in a datacenter you built yourself because you can inadvertently wipe the contents with a mere click

  • The cyber security professional inside of me wants to agree with you. The Liberal in me doesn't want to give the government the authority to ban speech and what citizens are allowed to watch.

  • Its performative. There is at least logic in thinking that if TikTok had US ownership that it'd be more aligned to US interests but unless it was bought by a mega US corp, it'd likely just be a shell operation and nothing changes.

    Why single out TikTok and not Chinese nationals buying US real estate, driving up the cost of commercial and residential rents?

  • LLMs are great for anything you’d trust to an 8 year old savant.

    It’s great for getting quick snippets of code using languages and methods that have great documentation. I don’t think I’d trust it for real work though