If there's text in the body, I'll always read it.

Now a better question is if you asked us if we read the linked article before commenting lol.

I wish society judged people who don't tag AI art the same way we judge those who fail to tag NSFW or spoiler content.

Found you a better quality one.

The social media ban for younger kids in Australia is not a good thing. By requiring anyone who wants to access social platforms to provide government ID, you're effectively eliminating online anonymity.

Sure, the justification today might be to "protect the kids". But you're slowly building the infrastructure of a surveillance state. All it'll take is for an authoritarian party to win the next election and your privacy and freedom of expression is over.

The only way to protect children and protect our privacy is if the age verification software is publicly auditable and uses zero-knowledge proofs for age attestation. The website you're accessing must never see anything about you aside from "This user is 16+." And the age verification platform must never be able to keep a log of which websites you've accessed.

But that's just a compromise. If I had the option to choose, I'd rather there be absolutely no age verification, ever.

EDIT: Fixed grammar.

I'm going to visit the Cincinatti Zoo in 2016 and stop this one kid kid from falling into a gorilla enclosure.

Said more directly: r/popular sucks, and we’re moving away from it, and towards better, more relevant and personalized feeds.

I hate how the highlighted part is going to be a decent thing at best or a fucking horrible thing at worst.

Sadly, they only removed access to new API keys. Existing ones still work, for now.

Why this is "sad" is because Reddit has learned from the past. They won't immediately take drastic changes that will immediately piss off a big chunk of their users. Instead, they'll do it slowly so fewer people will feel the immediate impact. But eventually, this will affect everyone.

And why this sucks for us is because if there's no massive outrage like the one in 2023, there won't be a mass migration to the Fediverse.

Then the API debacle happened two years ago

Good news! They made things worst a few days ago by requiring users to request permission to get a personal API key. So if you don't already use a modified 3rd party app with your own API key, then you're fucked!

I want this to be real.

What about the uneducated fleas?

As long as they don't F up the price of the Steam Machine, then this would be wonderful for both the gaming and Linux communities.

I'm jumping between Reddit and Lemmy. Some subreddits have all of their mods booted out (r/GoCommitDie and r/OpenAI are two I can think of). Some subreddits have decided to flag their subreddit as NSFW but are being threatened by Reddit to reverse that move, and many have returned to business as usual.

Let's face it. We've lost the API protest. All we can do now is make Lemmy popular and make it attractive to other users. Give people an incentive to actually join here. Our job here is not to make Lemmy a copy of Reddit. We need to make Lemmy different (in a good way!).

And here's an unpopular opinion: we need to make Lemmy easy to use and understand. If normies find Lemmy difficult to use or understand, then we're fucked.

My personal opinion is that normies might get confused by the fediverse and might be turned away by thinking they need to make an account on every single instance in order to participate in them. I am not proposing that we get rid of federation. What I am proposing is that we somehow make it clearer to everyone that all you really need is one account and you can get access to everywhere. I don't know how we can do this, but I'm sure there is someone who knows.