Cris_Color
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world
Hello, my name is Cris. :)
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #126 - selling music albums on Bandwagon and more 1 day ago:
Yeah… I’m not sure that’s a good monetization model… I feel like even the standard taking a small cut of every transaction is a better idea than that :/
It feels really overly punishing for small artists while being very reasonable for established larger artists, which sucks
- Comment on Being a Mastodon Moderator 1 day ago:
I saw this on Mastodon and saved it for later, thank you for posting it here so I didn’t forget it
This is was a really lovely read.
- Comment on Fuck you i'm closing my eyes 2 days ago:
This made me cackle, thank you
- Comment on Its like losing your identity 2 days ago:
Gay :)
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 2 days ago:
North Carolina here, there’s definitely been a fuckton of rain thusfar
- Comment on Shamone 2 days ago:
:((((
- Comment on AquaSwap - A community for buying, selling, and trading aquatic life and goods 3 days ago:
I love this!
While lemmy is so small would it maybe make sense to post this content to the aquarium comm, or cross-post things there?
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- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
Thank you for that additional information!
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
That’s incredibly important to! I think people would be hesitant to work for even decent donations if people are assholes, but you’re 100% right. I guess it really comes down to appreciating the people around you
You should appreciate the humans that create this social space by being here and being social, and appreciate the people who create this social space by building the space itself
Thank you for making that point, people being paid makes a huge difference.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
And yet, it was created by communists, and populated with all sorts of people, socialists, anarchists, liberals, communists, libertarians, punks (particularly of the solar variety), ai/crypto bros and more
There are very clearly lots of people here who don’t already share your views, and who are here for different reasons, and the antagonistic, wildly presumptive way you’re voicing your perspective just guarantees that exactly zero people come to see your perspective better.
As someone who at least largely identifies with anarchism, please stop being a dick, you’re doing a disservice to the humans you share this space with and the causes you care about simultaneously. This platform is not exclusively yours just because you identify with its structure for political reasons.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 1 week ago:
That’s a real shame, and a huge loss.
Friendly reminder that the only way lemmy can be successful is if we create a culture that is enjoyable to be a part of. It sounds like his time here was not so positive, and that’s deeply saddening.
I wish him the best with his future endeavors
- Comment on YSK: if you are visiting Puerto Rico from the mainland US, you can sign up to escort a rescue animal on your return flight to their adopter 1 week ago:
Aww. That’s really cool!
- Comment on Growth narratives on the new social networks 1 week ago:
Lmao
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 1 week ago:
I think their point was that the hole has to go all the way though for it to count topologically
The vagina ends at the uterus, and milk ducts don’t go all the way through either
- Comment on Social media can support or undermine democracy — it comes down to how it’s designed 1 week ago:
This looks super cool, I’ll have to make time to come back and read this!!!
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 1 week ago:
You have posted so many of my favourite memes on Lemmy. Absolutely top tier shitposting 😭
- Comment on PieFed.World is now open 2 weeks ago:
What’s casuing lemmy posts to show up for you? Followed hashtags? Some kind of federation bug?
- Comment on Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts 2 weeks ago:
To my understanding (please take with several grains of salt), some folks felt like it would encourage toxicity since you can essentially mock something someone said without saying it to them directly, while sending your audience to the original post, and I believe for quite some time the plan was intentionally not to add it
On the other hand, I’ve heard folks suggest that by allowing people to have their own isolated conversation about an idea you can potentially limit some of the harmful consequences of people with large audiences or something, but I don’t remember the exact explanation
Personally I’m happy to get quote posts and I’m happy that mastodon is cautious about implementing features that facilitate hostile interactions in the way that major platforms do for engagement
Hopefully someone can chime in with a more informed/detailed explanation, but I thought I’d share what I know in case I’m the only one to reply :)
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for your input! I’ll have to take a minute some time to go to the web interface and just look around db0 and see for myself whether it feels like a good fit for me, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m not really mad at that. I don’t think it changes my sentiment towards generative ai, but I don’t mind people finding ways to create their own fun and roleplaying or whatever
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Generative ai and machine learning are pretty broadly considered different if adjacent technologies if I’m not mistaken
forbes.com/…/the-vital-difference-between-machine… probably not the best source, I just grabbed what came up
They don’t really do the same thing, and have different types of outputs compared to one another, even if both use a neural network of weights or whatever
As a person who has spent a huge amount of my life making art I think the idea that it will get more people into art is naive, and I think being devoid of understanding artistic principles it makes poor reference compared to anything else, which is part of why artists communities loathe generative AI. I follow tons of artists online and they all periodically have to stop and vent their frustration.
A youtuber artist did a whole video explaining how finding reference on the internet is now borderline impossible due to ai content, and after problem solving explained you can avoid that problem by only looking at images older than when gen ai became widespread. It reached a pretty big audience and was extremely well recieved by artists, broadly, hate gen ai and want nothing to do with it 😅
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
I think the appeal of seeing stuff that people make is that it reflects the humans who made it.
I’m generally not especially interested in what an algorithm produces, at least not in the same way or for the same reason as I am things made by people.
I don’t know what gen ai could produce that I would sincerely find good.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Is that generative ai or machine learning? I really don’t have the same issue with machine learning
Its not just llm’s, I find calling ai generated images “art” frankly offensive and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what art is and why anyone should care about it. But my issue is really just generative ai
I don’t really think people have an issue with machine learning, it’s useful for all kinds of stuff, and doesn’t really come with the same ethical problems as best I’m aware, so I have no reason to complain about it.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
That is genuinely really interesting, I didn’t expect it to be db0. Thanks!
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Huh, I wouldn’t have guessed db0, interesting. I’d kinda considered exploring db0 as a future instance but maybe its not such a good fit for me. Thanks for the answer!
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t really help me or add anything to the conversation. I already have views on ai, I was really just asking about the dynamics and cultures of different instances because I find learning about those cultural differences interesting.
I’m personally not a fan. Its a commercial product built on the theft of intellectual labor by creatives and the primary selling point of generative ai is that it can replace the people who do that creative labor. I’ve tried using it at various points and it straight up made stuff up and ended up not helping me find what I was looking for at all. I tried to use it to generate practice text I could translate into Japanese for language learning and it constantly used words other than the ones provided- words I didn’t know in japanese.
It has hypothetically useful usecases, that I pretty much never see anyone actually implement, and it feels very clear that the only reason anyone is investing in it is because it can reduce the need to pay actual humans, generating more money for people who already have tons, while wasting huge amount of electricity and resources.
Telling me, apropos of nothing, that having a stance other than neutral is “stupid” doesn’t add anything, give me anything to consider, substantiate any stance, provide any details, etc. I don’t really need to know that you think I’m stupid for not liking ai.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Which instance is pro ai?
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 2 weeks ago:
Thats sick!
- Comment on GitLab abandons federation plans! 2 weeks ago:
Awww :(
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I guess social media has, in effort to build maximum engagement, really shaped a lot of people’s way of engaging with others in deeply toxic ways that will be very hard to untangle and change now that the social forces that teach us how to act towards one another have been hijacked for monetary gain, and people have spent so much time exposed to that :(
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, it gave me some new things to think about, and maybe it will help me set aside my frustration and remember my empathy when dealing with those people, at least more often. Because if I want to enact change I also need to build a critical mass of people who share my perspective.