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- Comment on Are Our Posts Valuable? 11 months ago:
Interesting take. I like the light philosophical bend there with the mental value. I think you’re right about that. I have been more considering whether the cumulative data of a platform like Lemmy as a whole is something that we as the users/server should be asserting our ownership of. Or, whether it is effectively worthless.
- Submitted 11 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Do we own our posts? 11 months ago:
I feel your frustration. Hang in there though. Perhaps there is a way to combat it.
- Comment on Do we own our posts? 11 months ago:
An interesting thought. I’m not sure this is entirely true though in many jurisdictions. It is clearly possible to post something on someone else’s server and still maintain ownership of it. Platforms like SoundCloud have you specify a license in the ui client at the time of upload. While this might seem performative, it is explicit.
- Comment on Do we own our posts? 11 months ago:
Thanks for sharing. I honestly was wondering how people were thinking about this. I was wondering why not include a license specified per post in the client UI as that seemed quite explicit. Yet, I was wondering how this might prohibit federation from being controlled at the server level.
I had considered ads in clients and llm training. Both of which, people in need should be paid for if it is using content they generated if at all possible.
- Comment on Do we own our posts? 11 months ago:
Might we easily make it more clear that the poster or the server owns them outright?
Hypothetically, a corporation federates and wants to monetize my posts. Can they do this? I’m not personally fixated on ownership (which could easily be viewed as my systemic privilege), but the pathway out of this type of thought in general doesn’t seem to be yielding all power to already powerful growth-based corporations. I didn’t create the current systems, but I do acknowledge their existence.
- Submitted 11 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on VCMI 1.4.1 Released 11 months ago:
Loved this game. Used to play with my bro. Always XL map, hours until we even found each other.
A year or so ago he showed me: goblinzstudio.com/game/heros-hour/
Very similar but a hilarious battle system that actually renders ALL of your creatures. Love it
- Comment on Not that into VR, but Dungeons Of Eternity coop is worth a try 11 months ago:
Understandable. Would be nice if it were available through sidequest or something more wholesome. Cool game though.
- Submitted 11 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 11 months ago:
Agreed. Always a good thought to have when one is considering going down that road. Is the future predictable enough to really expect that particular end?
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 11 months ago:
I think you’re onto something saying toxic is a pretty unspecific term to use when talking about such things. Maybe it would be a better conversation to ask: when do the ends justify the means?
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 11 months ago:
I think you’re right that there are people out there trying to manipulate and influence social media - I mean even that platforms themselves do this to a certain extent.
The idea that they purposely try to make it toxic to push the more intellectually-honest, emotionally-controlled people out of the conversation is the interesting part to me.
This particular facet feels less like intentional manipulation and more like a side-effect of our platforms and how they function.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 11 months ago:
Intriguing. I don’t totally know what I think about this argument. A purposeful initiative to make politics toxic to get people to stop paying attention. It’s not one I had totally considered before. You think that’s really going on?
I have had many experiences with real people not on the internet that seem to fixate largely on politics and believe so fervently that they are right that they allow themselves to become toxic. I always thought it was a kind of inconsistent latent belief in utilitarianism combined with overconfidence.