Comment on [AI] Niwatari Kutaka
hypertown@ani.social 1 week agoTags 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.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’m not telling anyone they are wrong because stuff they don’t want to see, I only want them to use the tools available to them before making knee-jerk decisions that can have adverse effects on the community. As easy as it is to create communities, it’s even easier to use the blocking tools for yourself. This conversation has taken hundreds of times longer than it would have for someone to block and move on.
hypertown@ani.social 1 week ago
Yet here you are writing another essay on why this content should be allowed and here I am doing the same against it. People care. That’s why they’re doing it. You want to post here even though there are other communities that are made for that and I push back against it even though we have the option to block someone.