Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.
Anyways, what communities do you recommend?
I think that hobby communities here can all benefit from having more members. If you have interest in starting out in any of these communities I am always around, and I know there is a small but dedicated base here.
The Star Wars community is a place I have a personal interest in making somewhere positive to talk about the parts of Star Wars people really enjoy. I’m happy to see that it has started to take off more over time.
Communities about history and oddities are also places where kids and core members have really done a lot to make the community a place with a foundation.
- Sort by new
- Subscribe to stuff
I prefer to sort by either hot or active, then I sort by New once I’ve run through everything. But you do you.
Agree, I start my day on active, but once I’ve seen all those I do top six hours, then new.
I start with hot, then go backwards through those. I like to start general and then go granular.
- Block stuff you don’t want to see. I block porn, sports & country specific ones that I do not speak the language.
Just hide NSFW content. 98% of that is porn.
As someone who mostly left behind a 13 y/o reddit account with a ton karma when the api nonsense happened, the fuck is reddit premium?
And what is this AI news ?
You’ve never heard of Reddit Premium in 13 years? It’s the paid account that got rid of the ads and used to give you a few hundred coins per month. It was like $60/year.
I thought reddit gold was the paid account. I haven’t heard of these coins either.
Gold was the standard award up until those in charge saw that they could get more money from people by creating other awards. Coins were the virtual currency used to buy the awards.
I just want to say that creating a precedent of not allowing AI models to train on free content essentially means that when the models get cheap enough for average joes to train their own, average joes won’t be able to.
We’ll have to use the models owned by huge corporations with deep pockets, because those will be the only legal ones.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Reddit’s deal is about locking content away from trawlers until they pay for it. Here, it’s free for all of them. They can even set up their own servers and the fediverse will deliver it to them in real time.
Also, if people think that Lemmy posts won’t be trawled by content farmers looking to train their AI, I’ve got a bridge to sell them.
Yeah that’s the thing, part of the reason why I’m so confused. Reddit can literally just crawl any posts on Lemmy, it’s exactly the same in that sense. Public is public, after all.
That’s a sort of realpolitik view of the web, based on using tech and engineering convention to control information flow on the web.
But the web standards we’ve used to regulate things aren’t in agreement with the new legal framework people are trying to implement, and if we allow them to make their legal argument unopposed, they will add new layers to the tech to change web standard behavior into dystopian centrally controlled network behavior.
I agree the web is an open platform, and I agree that copyright law is clear. But these people are not operating on trying to follow existing rules. They’re trying to create new rules, and they have the power to do so.
And no, they do not RTFM . They think a greenfield rewrite is the best move for society, because they have zero respect for the engineering decisions of yesterday, not for the challenge or the value of maintaining existing systems.
Maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet, but I’m having a hard time determining which side you’re on. Are you saying it’s good that reddit is doing this?
I see myself as advocating for one set of ideas out of a sea of ideas and an ocean of such sets. Sides are for basketball games.
Generally speaking, I’m a libertarian but to me the word is about liberty not lack of responsibility.
I’ll take:
- UBI
- Free drugs
- Corporations competing with one another to provide basic necessities
- Personhood granted liberally. When it doubt, give it rights
- AI being trained on copyrighted material
- AI or its owner being taken to task when the AI publishes copyrighted material verbatim without attribution
- A free market specifically because freedom allows the little guy to get ahead before the big guy builds the mechanism to keep him down
- Simple government
- Red commits
Just browse all and take the time to block every community you don’t like the content of
Yeah, so much furry porn and hentai it’s not funny
Honestly, the communities right now are so small I can’t really recommend them. I just browse all.
I miss reddit because you could have an extremely niche community with 10,000 people contributing. It’s hard to get 10 people going here.
Hopefully reddit will keep fucking up and lemmy will grow. I really like it here with no ads but miss feeding my niche interests on the reddit subs. Most have subs here but they are just empty.
Be the change!
Are you suggesting a Multiplicty type scenario?
Like…making a bunch of clones of yourself to date Andie MacDowell??
If you can, I guess…I just meant, post a lot. But the clone thing is cool too
Also, if you put “old.” in front of your URL you get the old view of the site, which I liked a lot more personally, so it’s probably worth a try for you too.
You’re an idiot - you’ve wasted a decade
I couldnt tell you, im starting to block most of the communities that im coming across. All they post about is trump or echo on about some political stance. Its like they are just trying to either piss people off to get reactions or whip eachother into a political coma frenzy. It feels just like reddit to me, im starting to think Lemmy has the same bot problems.
Ill probably just end up using lemmy for inane memes and or porn, as i have yet to come across anything informative. I haven’t really done any serious looking tho, so… shrug
Sounds like you need to take a break, man.
Ya prolly.
I bailed around 8 months ago, I felt the same way and that was only 3 years into it. I block a lot of news type communities in all You’ll notice some communities are similar/same as it is the local vs all of lemmy instances
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I will say star trek is more popular here and its pretty good [email protected]
Fediverse postings are probably also being used for AI training. Just so you won’t be too shocked when it eventually comes out in the future.
Sure, but it hits different when there is a company of ill-repute specifically profiting off of your data acting as the broker.
It’s honestly still small enough that anything with a few upvotes shows will appear in the main feed. I’ve just scrolled through and followed as I saw things I’m interested in, and blocked things I don’t ever want to see.
Welcome! It’s difficult for me to suggest specific communities because my favorites to read are highly individual. I suggest sorting /all by Active, Scaled, and New to assist in discovery.
Finally, please participate and share content! Lemmy needs it to thrive.
To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.
Why would they risk user’s sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.
The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.
Ah, I missed it was an ongoing payment, I thought it was a single payment for a db export, then it makes sense to erase comments
