Ulu-Mulu-no-die

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 9 months ago

It doesn't matter, it's a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 9 months ago

The only thing those people are signalling, in my opinion, is that it doesn't take much to bait people into engaging with reddit to give them traffic, can't wait for an article about how metrics are going up so investors have nothing to worry about.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

That's anecdotal experience, I'm 50+ and I got 19/20, I 100% identified all fakes and marked fake one of the real ones, so I'm on the skeptical side of things.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

You're more resilient to misinformation than 96% of the US population!

I'm not US? I did specify my country, or are they comparing everyone to US only?

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

if you build your knowledge based on headlines

You'd be surprise how so many people just do that unfortunately, both on reddit and facebook.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

You can tell by the results "real news detection" and "fake news detection", they don't tell you which one is wrong, probably to avoid other people "copying" the correct answers.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

As for copyright infringement, what exactly is being violated here?

Intellectual property of the original art creators? OP says "unlicensed", if you take any piece of art someone else created, and you use it to make your own stuff without their authorization, you're committing a crime.

Rather, it highlights that people need to adapt and evolve.

And risk being sued? Valve is right in being wary of this, especially since there's no real regulation about it.

Let's have regulations first, then we can tell people to adapt.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

Exactly, that's the problem.

human artists are worried they will be replaced

The problem is plagiarism, easy to control when humans do it, not so much when AIs are involved, that's why we need regulations.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

On top of what you said about DXVK, Proton improvements go back to wine eventually and Proton itself can be used outside of Steam (there's a Lutris version for example), that's huge, on some games it can be night and day compared to wine-staging.

Valve is doing a fantastic job in making Linux a reliable gaming platform.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

I don't think beehaw doesn't fit the fediverse, I do believe it doesn't fit every user.

As I understand it, they want to be a safe place for a very specific audience, that is, people afraid to be harassed for who they are, that could also include people with extreme social anxiety, that's why it's so heavily policed and they defederate from a lot of other instances.

It's like having a heavily moderated subreddit, you wouldn't say it doesn't fit reddit just because they don't accept contribution from everyone.

The purpose of the fediverse is to have things spread out so one or few nodes dying doesn't affect the entire system, it's also about avoiding corporate control, the same principles on which the internet was founded.

I don't think it means having to trust everyone or accepting everyone into your local group.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

(i.e. non beehaw members cannot post on beehaw, but beehaw members can go interact on other instances). But as far as I understand that’s not how it works.

It depends, you believe that's not how it works because you're thinking of both sides defederating each other, but defederation is one-side.

For example, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world but lemmy.world didn't defederate from beehaw, so lemmy.world people cannot participate on beehaw but beehaw can participate on lemmy.world.

It's actually a bit more complicated than that, since lemmy.world people can still participate in beehaw discussions but only lemmy.world people would see those comment, I think also other instances that are not defederated can but I'm not sure about this.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 9 months ago

I don't know about kbin but it's certainly possible on lemmy:

• beehaw defederated from lemmy.world
• lemmy.world did NOT defederate from beehaw

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 9 months ago

But beehaw users can interact with .world communities if they want, it's .world users that wouldn't see it.

There's probably no purpose in doing that, but it is possible.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

I use Firexox and I found it in its addon repository, just search the name.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

Many subs reopened but they're still protesting in very creative ways.

User traffic back to normal means people are now posting as much as before, it doesn't mean reddit itself is back to normal, unless you consider spamming Oliver pictures everywhere, literal steam on r/steam. all users "promoted" to mods, NSFW content where it shouldn't be, etc, as being "normal".

I'd be much more interested in knowing how all this is affecting ad revenues and investors opinions, but it seems this kind of info is really hard to find.

Are advertisers backing off for example, realizing that porn could pop up unexpectedly in subs they sell their ads in? Are investors realizing reddit is a very risky business, not only because users can protest any time, but also because they showed they can literally crash the entire platform?

Another dip in traffic will occur when apps stop working July 1st, after that I believe things will go slowly back to normal, "real" normal this time.

Many users are already migrating to alternatives, but I believe it will take quite a long time before the masses realize reddit is a sinking ship.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

I agree, my point is that as long as the masses stay there, reddit will appear fine, garbage to us obviously but I think we are a minority of the reddit userbase.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

That’s amazing! Thank you for what you’re doing <3

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

Mods should quit moderating altogether IMO, more than 20 thousands participated in the protest, there's no way they could replace them all in a reasonable time-frame, it would be a much better chaos than the blackout.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

It's very possible it was the admins banning you, not the mods (admins are reddit employees for those who don't know, mods aren't).

There have been other reports of people being banned by admins for "contributing" to the protest with NSFW content, they're desperate, they're trying to keep the protest under check by any means.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

Terraria, it's an hybrid between a minecraft 2D (sandbox building) and an action rpg.

You can play it standalone but it also has a server component (included in the game when you buy it), you can either use it to set up your own server for LAN parties, or you can just join one of the public servers already available: https://terraria-servers.com/

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

Oh sorry, I misread it.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

As much as I'd love that, I seriously doubt it.

While I know some communities are planning to stay dark for more than 2 days, many aren't, if things go back to "normal" after such a short period, we won't accomplish anything.

The best course of action would be to move communities away from reddit, but that's not easy nor simple.

Being here is a good start, let's wait and see what happens.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 10 months ago

I was thinking about that, and it's maddening and sad.

I too have always believed that scaring away the people who create that best content would be the doom or reddit, and it wouldn't take much since content creators are always a tiny minority of a social userbase, but what if u/criticalma55 is right?

What if "we" who value quality content are also a minority? What if the majority of reddit users are perfectly fine with bot reposts and shitposting?

I mean, I was active of reddit until the blackout began and I've seen several people saying they didn't even know 3rd party apps existed, many saying "I always used the official app, what's wrong with it?". I bet many people don't even know what's happening, and won't notice the difference if reddit goes on reposting stuff during the blackout, I've seen a few screenshots of comments that were very obviously written by AI, but how many will notice?

So maybe reddit is indeed trying to angry us as much as possible to push us all away and leave on reddit only the "low-information" masses that don't care and will take whatever shit reddit throws at them without battling an eye, they have enough content at this point to repost for years.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die, 11 months ago

Yeah it doesn't make sense, I wonder why they didn't put an explanation.