aramis87
@aramis87@fedia.io
- Comment on A goodbye to kbin ... 1 week ago:
So had I!
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 45 comments
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 1 week ago:
Is any of that money actually going to the authors, or is this just like a fine they hand over and they donate some money to a charity or something?
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 2 weeks ago:
I'm trying out a few, though I'll have more time to explore them and figure out what I like and don't like over the weekend.
I've signed up for discuit, and am looking back at tumblr, which I'd left for a while but still has good community.
I've signed up for imgpile, but there's some problem with the confirmation; I don't know if that's on me or them. And I've joined the waiting list for imgcat. I looked at imgchest. but there's too many ads and some AI stuff, so I'm skipping that for now.
I've added in a couple discord channels (Ellie and BSV); even if I don't think discord is a good replacement for imgur, it'll let me follow things for a while.
I'm not sure what to do with with two cat accounts I followed on imgur (KittensForDays and SigridRides); both post on YouTube went other social media, but I didn't use yt much, nor other social media, so ....
- Comment on UK | Millions of children to receive chickenpox vaccine on NHS 2 weeks ago:
Wait, have UK children not been getting the chicken pox vaccine?
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 2 weeks ago:
The people who created imgur sold it to MediaLab. ML had been struggling with bills in general, and they lost a couple lawsuits regarding content. In a completely unrelated move, they banned NSFW content, fired the community moderators and local development teams and replaced them with AI and overseas workers, resulting in unequal rules enforcement and broken infrastructure. Videos wouldn't upload, wouldn't play, or freeze partway through. Uploads would disappear without notice. A barely-nsfw post would be deleted and the user warned, while other more NSFW posts made it to the front page. Etc, etc. In short, there's been a lot of simmering discontent with the platform for a while now.
So, you remember that video/gif of Nazi Richard Spencer that's been circulating for a few years now? Back when that first came out, naturally some people posted it to imgur - and the content teams deleted the posts and warned the users, who promptly posted screenshots of the warnings, causing even more users to upload Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. They got deleted/warned, pretty much just causing a cascade of Nazi-punching content, until literally the entire popular feed was just Nazis getting punched.
Well, later last week, notifications failed on imgur for some reason - no notifications when you got a reply, or your post reached the front page or got an award, or the people you were following posted something - just dead silence. We were patient, but it started to annoy people. A couple people uploaded images complaining about the lack of notifications, only to have their posts deleted or hidden and in a couple cases they got warned. And it's pretty much spiralled exactly like the punching Nazis meme: notifications remained down, posts complaining about it got taken down, posts complaining about MediaLab's censorship got taken down, and then the entire front page became this.
Notifications are back on now, though they seem less frequent than normal, and new content is starting to reach the front page but users are still pissed. There have been repeated discussions about moving elsewhere, but no consensus has emerged yet. PixelFed doesn't scratch the same itch, a bunch of people moved to discord but others don't want to, some people just disappeared or stopped posting. And that's where we are, as of this morning.
