submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

(Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

Commonly mentioned biases:

Subject Mentions
Pro-Privacy 2
Left-Wing 9
Anti-Capitalism 5
American 5
Older 2
Pro-Linux 3
Tech people 5
Anti-Ai 4
Pro-LBTQ+ 3
Anti religion 3
Pro-Communism 3

Bonus: Gaming Biases

Subject Mentions
Nintendo hate 3
Pro-SteamDeck 1
Anti-GOG 1
PC over console 1
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

"AI bad" overrides "Piracy ok", though. I've seen threads in the main piracy community where the general consensus seemed to be that copyright should be used as a weapon against AI.

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  • [+] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Because piracy advocacy here on the Fediverse is about that, yeah. You're saying the same thing I am, that the Fediverse's pro-piracy bias is "overridden" by its anti-AI bias.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Yes, exactly what I'm saying. People on the Fediverse hate AI more than they support piracy, because when there's a situation that involves both enabling piracy and helping AI they will side with the anti-piracy side in order to hurt the AI side. The Fediverse has more of an anti-AI bias than it has a pro-piracy bias.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    It sounds to me like you're just saying why your support for piracy is limited in this case. You're saying "piracy's okay, but not when those companies use it for those reasons."

    Having rules about who is "allowed" to copy stuff and for what reasons is, in a nutshell, copyright law.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    The original comment I'm responding to listed two biases of the Fediverse's population:

    • AI bad
    • Piracy ok

    All that I'm saying - and that you are, as far as I can tell, agreeing with - is that in the situation where "piracy ok" and "AI bad" overlap the "AI bad" bias prevails. People who were cheering piracy moments earlier stop and go "no, not like that."

    As far as I can see, you're saying the same thing. You're just trying to justify why you're saying "no, not like that." Which is not relevant to the basic point I was making.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    You're both arguing anchored on hyper-reductive takes on what people think.

    People who think "Piracy OK" rarelly think that "All Piracy is OK" (for example people who think Piracy for personal profit is OK are pretty rare) and similarly those who think "AI is bad" seldom think it's all bad (I have yet to hear a negative take on AI Character Recognition)

    If one takes those two sentences as absolutes with none of that nuance and then extrapolates from such artificially narrowed premises, then of course the result will be ridiculous and contradictory.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you go back to my original comment you'll see that I said:

    I've seen threads in the main piracy community where the general consensus seemed to be that copyright should be used as a weapon against AI.

    That's the "Piracy OK" side, so yes, there is hypocrisy there. I'm reminded of the classic "what kind of woman do you think I am?" story.

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