I don’t plan to stop so long as you’re all staying around to make lemmy interesting to me, so thanks for being part of the same community. I’m proud to call this my home and all of you my m@tes!

I’ll drink to that!

I don’t have a lot more to contribute, since db0 did such a good job of summarizing everything. Just wanted to mention that I really enjoy being able to hang out in the community we have grown into. And also a big shoutout to the other admins, who are an exceptionally thoughtful, sincere and hard working bunch of people - it’s been a great pleasure getting to know y’all and thanks for donating your time and expertise to keep the ship afloat.

I already raised that concern as well, but I do think it’s worth a try. Would be great to dupe the functionality of the NSFW tag for this purpose.

And contributions welcome, probably.

I’d like to take this opportunity to advertise [email protected] to the hexbear community. Like and Subscribe.

Yeah we dodged a bullet there. Shame it was at the expense of the Americans.

Was it? I was under the impression @yogthos wrote it.

Check out the AI horde which is a bit like folding@home but for AI.

It all looks healthy, not too many slugs and snails in your area I’m guessing. Apparently a saucer of beer is a good low cost way of dealing with them.

Great post, thanks for sharing.

[…] I guess I have no choice but to block the instance.

And I’m the one who’s dying on a stupid reactionary hill?? Lmao.

Lol must keep your eyeballs pure eh?

The problem is the anti-genAI crowd show up in numbers

Sorry that your position is massively unpopular?

What data are you basing this ridiculous claim off? It’s already been thoroughly debunked. In reality most folks simply don’t care about it, or are ok with using genAI. That’s certainly true of our instance users, in any case. And looking at genAI posts in this community, they have way more upvotes than downvotes. Nobody has been able to explain to me how that equates to GenAI as being “massively unpopular”. It’s unpopular with a bunch of liberals on LW, and a handful of mostly western leftists who are so entrenched in the neo-liberal economic mindset that they can’t conceive of fighting against copyrights. Of course artists should be properly paid, but not via this ridiculous system of copyright law which mainly acts to protect corporate interests over individuals.

How is this post an example of that when it isn’t tagged?

It is mentioned in the original post that it is an AI generated image, which is why this discussion started in the first place because it wasn’t otherwise obvious. I’m saying even though this post was tagged, it didn’t stop off-topic hate comments about genAI from derailing the comments.

Does “saying AI is bad” count as “significant bullying and harassment?” What about, “saying comments shouldn’t be removed for criticizing AI?” Because apparently those things count as, “trolling” so I’m not sure what standards you’re using here.

This is a disingenuous comment. The removal reason for those off topic comments wasn’t “bullying and harassment” it was “comment trolling” which is why there were only removals and no bans. If the post isn’t about AI then yes, that’s just comment trolling as far as I’m concerned. Online bullying and harassment over this topic is absolutely occurring, whether or not you are aware of it. One case is documented in the [email protected] community post I previously mentioned. We moderate this instance accordingly to the overwhelming majority preference of our instance users on this topic, and I don’t apologize for it.

If the community rules don’t ban GenAI images then you can assume a) they are allowed, and b) complaining about them is not allowed.

The problem is the anti-genAI crowd show up in numbers on almost every post containing AI images to pontificate about why they think “AI slop” should be tagged (although even when it is, they shift the goalposts and we still get complaints - this post is a good example). In effect this completely derails the post comments to be all about genAI instead of the community/post theme. Some of our community mods have experienced significant bullying and harassment over this topic, which is why we put the rule in place. I’m not going to re-litigate it here, but if you check out our [email protected] community there is an extensive discussion about it there.

How is this a meme?

These anti-ai trolls are like religious zealots… always happy to give you their unwanted opinions.

Yes it is, but not in the way you think.

Ok, fair enough…

Editing your comment like this is violating the spirit of the disengage rule.

I’ve been using it for years, and switched to that repository soon after the previous versions were taken down. No issues with it afaik, and I’m very grateful to the developers for keeping it going.