I really doubt the number of people using uncensored chat bot is that high. The drop of usage probably has more to do with novelty and AI general limitation.
The AI models are not always that easy to use and they are being developed at neck breaking speed, so I cannot imagine the numbers of people dedicate themselves to use such AI would be that high.
There is a niche of using AI chatbot as RP tool for sure, but it has always been a separated thing from the start and it cannot cause such sudden drop.
It does feel that many people here on lemmy are experiencing 1st hand of "feeding the troll". The Donald community created is probably done by less than a handful of people and it drove hundred times more amount of users to turn against each other.
This is why I frown upon the idea of defederation and I blame the users for opening that pandora's box. People, including mods, are too busy getting at each other throats and praising the value of their bubble communities rather than having any sort of planning.
That's an interesting strategy tbh. Remind me of "you have been banned from r/Pyongyang". Honestly the people screaming defederation is more annoying and more active than the community they are screaming at, so I am all for this approach.
Maybe when the technology is more mature, this process will be done through automated bot. That's something to think about too.
While there are definitely some clunky aspects that still need to be worked out, I've been having a blast. Wanted to give the devs a shoutout-- an incredible accomplishment for a three-man dev team!
Based on what you wrote, it doesn't look like you used reddit for too long. Most of the more interesting things on reddit are very niche (hobbyists), very personal (old askreddit, helpful supportive communities for minorities, big comment threads about global events, etc.), or very regional specific (food, culture, belief, etc.) There are quite a lot of people still use small subs on reddit exactly for those reasons, finding very technical or obscure knowledge is only possible thanks for small communities. That is what many wish to replicate here.
I do not get what you even mean by saying niche subs will survive as they did before. No, there are a lot of sub drama and not all sub survive drama, and this time reddit itself is trying strip contents and agency out of the users and mods. What do you even mean saying it won't effect small subs?
If you just doom scroll lookking at meme pics and comments you aren't really experiencing much other than dopamine content. Just because you do not engage in smaller communities doesn't mean that these changes aren't affecting those people.
It really does feel that his energy/content vibe seem to fit short series a lot more than long mega project. The narration is easier to keep track of with few characters. (I do think the bridge was an epic project though)
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....
There are just so many words to excuse defederation when it just comes down to technical limitation (not all QoL and moderation tools are ready yet) and power users insisting on curating their precious communities.
Is it really that hard to get that most people are upset because most people just want a high quantity of contents in the most efficient dose possible? This is why Reddit grew to what it is in the first place. Reddit was never really about quality of content. It has always been about user driven contents over curated contents.
The inconvenience of defederation is exactly the strife with the whole situation. Communities splintering is not exactly something new, it happened many times on reddit before. The problem is that this is a really crappy time for defederation: when people are still new to this platforms, when there are many power users and mods still exploring this platform as alternating option, when a lot of QoL tools have not been deployed for an expected experience, when a lot of communities still have not have its helpful members start their contribution, etc.
I suppose these kinds of things ought to happen anyways, as people are still figuring things out. But to regard this as anything but a shit show is blind imo.
I do not disagree that defederation will happen. In fact no one actually even know how federation would look like here at all. It's all experimental at this point.
In fact, Kbin did defederated from the network once. Unlike beehaw, it was a lot shorter, the purpose was clear and handled quickly, without so much drama. What I am saying is that the situation is handled like crap. All these talks and it just reminds me of the same old reddit mods power struggle than what people are trying to paint federation as.
I do intend to interact with communities that I do want to interact with - just as how I did it on reddit before - once actual community members can move over from reddit without being tangled in this faction wars. You cannot just ignore that a lot of people def do not want to leave reddit to lemmy due to these drama.
This seems like a snipe at me for no reason. I have no interested in "interacting" with the big boys here while they are doing their own things and I do not have the interest nor expertise to fix their issues. My time and interest would better be spend on hobbyist communities that I do like to interact with as I do previously on reddit.
I don't disagree with that, because Beehaw is made before the reddit thing happened.
What should have happened is that they made an announcement and a clear goal to either remain closed community, or a time of when they rejoin. Originally, they did say they might rejoin when more mod tools are available, which I can respect. The technical limitation is understandable. The whole argument sprung by communities over defederation is not. From my perspective, it is just a veiled way to excuse trying to build a curated community.
Beehaw was made with the goal of being a curated community originally. So just say it like it is. The whole veiled discussion and excuses made by the loose definition of defederation is stupid and just cause even more drama from involved sites.
I do use beehaw and saw those posts. I do not support the overall goal of beehaw, though that is not related to the content of what I posted above. Imo, Beehaw as a curated communities should not try to play both sides and handle the situation poorly - which does confuse the overall communities here. If they choose to go walled garden mode, then they should commit to it.
Regards your first point, and partly why I do not agree with beehaw overall goal, I do not think all of what you listed (and what I heard a lot from beehaw or similar closed communities) are such a problem as people are making it out to be. Reddit itself is terribly vile as all of the contents you listed there already exist on the platform. The reasons why you do not see those on reddit on daily basis are 2 folds. One, the tools on reddit that filter those contents are rather decent - which is something lemmy does not have, yet. And two, those types of contents do get naturally filtered by the internet communities itself - something that happened on reddit many many times.
Well what you said is what I did. I never support the goal of beehaw to make a curated communities in the first place because I do not think such idea is healthy (nor it represent much for things outside of USA imo), but it really does not effect me in any way.
What I strongly disagree with is the idea of defederation is a "normal" thing to do: it's only make sense specifically because they want to make a curated communities, and nothing else. People who paint it otherwise are making excuse from my point of view (which is the point of my original post). And the strife I have with them is the whole drama they essentially caused.
Because Beehaw is not the entirety of the federation? I am not sure if I follow your question. I am not on Beehaw.
I support the exploration of federation concept (which at this point, the tool and experience are not yet developed to that point), and support the people and communities going through the transition from reddit to this deferation system (which a very small percentage of people went through to here).
Beehaw supports neither of these. They backed out, and they want to create curated communities specifically.
My energy is spend on the many communities I do engage with... on reddit. Those communities have barely any post here because the majority of people do not trust these platforms. It makes sense that I want the federation as a whole (ignoring beehaw) to not sink before the people can move to these spaces.
I realize the confusion now. I forgot that from the perspective of people on Beehaw, they would not see me posting from kbin immediately without checking the handle.
To paraphrase my point: I support the development of lemmy as a federated project, but I do not support the goal of Beehaw (which they do have on the sidebar and I read it more than one). This purely comes from my own experience and preference with curated communities.
I do not have a problem with Beehaw defederate from others.
However, I do not see defederate is a solution to the many issues with lemmy as a whole. I disagree with the original post on federation, but I do agree with a lot of their replies about the technical limitation.
I think you are the one who does not get it. Unless Beehaw completely defederate from everyone, posts on Beehaw is a part of the federation, meaning all federate communities that beehaw agrees to connect with.
This is why I said the whole defederate/federate thing Beehaw people do not seem to get or do not want to understand. You are part of this, we are not part of you. If you want your own community, commit to it and disconnect. If you want the benefit of the federation, you do have to work with other and deal with consequence.
Interesting to see a community for DF here so fast! I remember when I 1st saw DF on r/gaming sidebar and got hooked after seeing all the weird stories and crazy mega projects....
To start off. I have been trying to do a fairly weird project, not even recently, but for years! I want to make a bridge across huge water space from an evil biome to a good biome.
Generating a world with both evil and good biome close together is a bit tricky, but the thing that held me back for so many attempts is that I am just too greedy with the world gen. I keep trying to get Tower nearby (along with all 4 major races), and evil mist for rp reason. I think the new update let you send envoy to neighbors though, so I can be more flexible with the spot.
The Northbridge series by Kruggsmash does inspire me to give this mega project a try again. The last attempt didn't go so well with extremely early Tower invasion. Currently I am waiting for multi-thread update before giving this another shot.
If there is one minor thing to complain about, it's the mini map. I want to make a long map (like 1x16 map) but the mini map looks awful as a result. If there is a way to just disable the mini map (like old school DF version), that would be great.
There is a button at the bottom to click on to open the world map. From there you can click on various other site and send some dwarf there making demand.
So, how many lemmynsfw.com communities have you blocked?
I just reached 112 myself....
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ChatGPT users drop for the first time as people turn to uncensored chatbots (arstechnica.com)
Data shows ChatGPT use decreased by nearly 10 percent from May to June.
FYI, lots of users are polling to defederate sh.itjust.works (lemmyonline.com)
Might- be worth knowing about…...
[Discussion] Regarding Exploding-Heads, the admins are now banning users requesting defederation. This isn't a bad thing.
Here is the thread of theirs...
Battlebit Remastered tops 50,000 concurrent players 3 days after release. (lemmy.world)
While there are definitely some clunky aspects that still need to be worked out, I've been having a blast. Wanted to give the devs a shoutout-- an incredible accomplishment for a three-man dev team!
Why do some people care so much about making this a new Reddit?
Could anyone explain to my why some people are trying so incredible hard to turn lemmy/kbin into Reddit 2.0?...
Northbridge 10: Wealth Beyond Measure is out! (youtu.be)
I love this fortress so much
Federation, Defederation, and You - FAQ and Megathread
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....
What's your mega-project right now?
Interesting to see a community for DF here so fast! I remember when I 1st saw DF on r/gaming sidebar and got hooked after seeing all the weird stories and crazy mega projects....