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Is there an easy way to see what instances we are defederated from? (I fully support defedding any white supremacist instances, but also love transparency stuff about how the content I see is influenced)

Couple things on my mind regarding this post.

1. Is there any way for us to have transparency on the bans / the rationale that resulted in the ban? I.e. a ban log with the evidence? Lemmy.zip, feels somewhat like a collective, I know it’s not truly, but I’d like it to lean on that direction, as is many instances of Lemmy. So transparency on when / why people are being banned feels important.

2. Love the idea of thinking about the first time user exprience. We should def make those default rules very obvious with explanations on why they’re there, what each of them does, and a one click url or button to remove all pre-added filters. Short and to the point. These communities create controversial content and can be off-putting for new users. Here’s a lost of all pre-applied filters, the rationale for each, and if you’d like click here to remove all filters and start fresh.

Perhaps hosting on GitHub could be good too.

As a whole I’m concerned for Lemmy if/when we become the target of a misinformation / bot campagin, but not sure of there’s anything to do about it til it happens. But feels like it’s relevant for the defed Convo and the pre-applied filter rule. If, for example, some instances have much higher level of bad actors present.

Fucking religions and the fucked up people that hide behind them

So excited! I hope it has a return to the core original KF vibes.

Sometimes sometimes not. Lol. The internet will always have them. And sometimes they aren’t even dickheads, just the anonymity and a random Convo that brings the assholery out. That being said, at least you can ban people, and craft a feed / join an instance that is maybe less full of them.

The interesting thing about weed and ADHD, is that, since weed is a stimulant, if you find the right microdose (edible) it’s super super energizing and you can focus even better because it’s stimulating the under active executive part of your brain.

Failure? They accomplished exactly what they intended to.

Hard to maintain. I.e. Nvidia will now try to break intentionally.

But yeah. Anyone who thinks the app / stock model isn’t going to be heavily censored…

Why else would it be free? It’s absolutely state sponsored media. Or it’s a singularity and they’re just trying to get people to run it from within their networks, the former being far more plausible.

And I know, I know, the latter isn’t how llms work. But would we really know when it isn’t?

Lol well. When I saw this I knew the model would be censored to hell, and then the ccp abliteration training data repo made a lot more sense. That being said, the open source effort to reproduce it is far more appealing.

Yeah and with everything thats happening. It will be the usual slowly boiling the frog approach all the inflation / price gouging / shrinkflation has taken this far.

Currently they’re already doing it, it’s just a little bit slower and less dynamic: Goal, increase price by 25%

Step 1. Reduce package contents by 33% and provide a coupon for a reduced price by 25%

Step 2. Slowly oscilate the coupon from not available to being a less reduction in price.

Step 3: profit – Increasing the total profit to vary between 8% and 33% more depending on the day.

This example was taken from the new 8 can la croixs, but plenty of other examples. It’s just items that have a fixed size / quantity are harder to shrinkflate. Other stuff just reduce the weight a little at a time.

Rotisserie chicken for only $16.99*

*Surge pricing may apply. (At 6pm we add $4 to the price of our rotisserie chicken because…we can.)

Yeah, the writing is on the wall when it comes to digital pricing of grocery store products. The only way to fight this will be to refuse to shop at places that do it. Or get legislation to regulate it, but good luck getting that to happen, or even enforcing it. Especially with the current administration being bought and paid for by corporations… Sadly it’s doubtful we’ll get enough people boycotting it, especially since at first they’ll just keep the prices the same, when we need to be boycotting the store the moment it happens.

Then when they start switching to changing the pricing dynamically the digital price tags will already be installed across all their stores and there won’t be any way to protest against it besides going to a completely different retailer that doesn’t do it. If that’s even an option, which for the poorest or least capable people, it likely won’t be.

Surge pricing, coming to your dozen eggs at a corporate grocery store near you.

I feel like this is all grand standing. “Look I’m being tough on them” meanwhile working to broker a peace deal that gives Russia everything they want.

Idk why you’re getting downvoted. This right here.

done.

Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.

Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.

In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.

Lol all good and fair points.

I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads

Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.

I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.

Ah I see you’re learning from the latest installment of the United States government.