Comment on [AI] Niwatari Kutaka
hypertown@ani.social 1 week agoTags are cool but they are not here yet and more importantly Lemmy is also not a place where anything goes. It’s up to admins and community to decide what’s allowed and what’s not. If the majority of the community doesn’t want something you can’t expect them to create tags just to exclude that something.
As a member of this community I’m just voting against AI mostly because it’s unethical, among other reasons.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
The tags exist here because we already agreed that was the way we were handling content. In the meantime, you can just block me until tags arrive. That would be the simplest way to filter this content from your view.
hypertown@ani.social 1 week ago
Tags exist to categorize content but if the majority of the community doesn’t want some type of content then perhaps it should be restricted.
For example I wouldn’t have a problem with explicit NSFW content on this sub, especially because Lemmy provides excellent support for filtering out NSFW posts and yet I don’t insist on changing the rules to allow it just for the sake of freedom. The community and admins decided they don’t want it and that’s fine by me.
Also make no mistake I’m not speaking for everyone. If people want AI here then I’m in no position to intervene.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Just because the majority thinks one way doesn’t mean they aren’t wrong or ignorant. History is full of examples where the crowd went the wrong way on issues. Hell, you don’t even need history, just look at the US today. A community without dissent is dooming itself to ignorance and leaving itself vulnerable to the machinations of bad actors. The reality is that justice and truth aren’t the same as popularity, and we have to push against the crowd sometimes to get to it. Lemmy arms us with the tools to do just that, and it’s up to us to use them whenever possible.
hypertown@ani.social 1 week ago
I mean you can’t just tell people they are wrong because they don’t want to see AI stuff.
Leaving politics aside it’s hard to compare a country to a lemmy. If you don’t agree with the majority it’s very easy to create a community with your own rules on lemmy but you definitely can’t create a country, the most you can do is leave it which is also not easy.