Aren’t the devs of Lemmy Marxist leninist or something and .ml is one of their instances?

It might just be that, since BYD is serving such a large domestic market/population, that allows them to have cheaper cars? Something something, economies of scale. I’m no expert though.

I think what you’re talking about about are social “networking” sites, vs social “media”. You could also say that it’s a spectrum, some sites are more social media and others more networking.

I remember a guy on Reddit saying that he was going to climb Mount Everest. Motherfucker admitted to being not being physically fit enough, but that he would get fit enough by doing some running. He also had no to little experience in climbing any mountains, and hadn’t ever climbed any mountains above 7k meters. He then said he put money on a reserved non-refundable trip to everest in a year to motivate himself. Oh, and all the training and experience gaining was to be done in the year before he went.

Mind you Everest “”“”“can”“”“” be easy if you hire like multiples guides and plenty of Sherpas to basically drag you up there. But the guy didn’t even have that. The absolute confidence some people have when this mountain has taken many lives of much more experienced and veteran climbers already.

At least nobody is stupid enough to climb K2 with no experience. If you’ve climbed and summited K2, I’d respect you alot more than if you said you climbed and summited Everest by far.

Sigh…at least Apple is getting screwed over though. They’ve been impeding right to repair for a long time, perhaps their karmic debt is finally catching up to them.

Depends on your target demographic I guess. Younger consumers will notice, older ones not so much.

The average consumer cares about the quality of a product as well as how affordable it is. AI…I dunno, it doesn’t really make a product “look” better if it’s ads or packaging or what have you, have a “meh” AI art vibe. AI art, because of its ease of generation, is vast becoming a sign of genericness.

Sometimes people be buying accounts that have farmed karma too.

Quick! Create an instance called Lemmy.eXodus!

Hopefully they don’t go all “Great Firewall of the US” on us.

Probably they’d use obscenity laws. Or they might bring lawsuit after lawsuit, dmca after dmca, until it drains them of their funds.

He’s actually leftist I think, and was parodying centrists too

They may know everything about you right now. But they don’t know about your future self, how you can change, how you may be an entirely different person in as little as a year. Data is useful, but it is more useful the more updated and recent it is.

Is it a possibility that shill accounts are using sports subreddits to obfuscate the fact that they are still accounts? Like “Hey there fellow citizens, I’m totally a normal poster and a red blooded American who really likes sports!”.

I mean you can see it happening here. How many cyber armies do you think are starting to pop up on Lemmy, from the US, from China, from Russia. How many corporate astroturfers do you think are coming on here, apple dicksuckers, etc. shit, mainstream media is trying to dip it’s toes into federated spaces.

Edit: a word, added an -ing

Addendum: Do you guys think that defederation campaigns can be weaponized? Isolate and destroy type stuff? Creating bubbles that can be easily analyzed and manipulated?

Time to switch to Linux

I wonder if having your own self hosted local llm would be better then?

I think most of the hostility is in regards to shilling of certain sites and services. Local self hosted AI is not likely to get as much flack I feel. Another aspect of hate is people generating images and calling it art, which…it is but, it’s the microwave equivalent of art. Such negative sentiments can be remedied by actually doing artistic shit with whatever image they generate, like idk, put the image into Photoshop and maybe editing the image in a way that actually improves it, or using said image as a canvas to be added onto or some other shit.

Edit Addendum: also the negative perception of AI has mostly been engendered by some of its more unpleasant supporters, who think of it as a way to make “irrelevant” certain groups they don’t like, and to take some sorta sick schadenfreude in the “replacement” of these people, which they think may be a way of reducing the power of these people (politically, socially, etc), and that’s kinda fucked up.

Might help to make tutorial vids for fediverse stuff.

I think the people who get up in arms over 3d printed guns forget that most people will never develop the skills or even have the prerequisite skills to make one anyways. It isn’t like you just plug in the printer, down load a file, and you have a gun. You need to learn alot of other things to actually make something functional. Things like ECM (electro chemical machining) is often necessary and a whole host of other skills.