aramis87

@aramis87@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For crying in the sink, stop posting imgur links⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you're really interested in seeing imgur content without the tracking, you could use one of the imgur frontends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd also suggest the granddaddy of interactive fiction games: Adventure / Advent / Colossal Cave. I actually still have the map I made around here somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's the reason a felon can take office in the government. Otherwise, it would be easy to "convict" someone you considered a threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does free healthcare access increase or decrease the need for medical personnel overall?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a study years ago about putting up Jersey walls on parts of US interstate highways, to see if they increased or decreased the number and severity of accidents. The conclusion was that it increased the number of minor accidents, and decreased the number of serious accidents.

  My guess is that universal healthcare would be the same: increasing the number of minor visits and (by noticing and addressing issues before they became serious) decreasing the number of serious visits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I edited everything before deleting it, double-checked it was still deleted periodically, and it all got restored sometime earlier this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hates fediverse, still wants to be part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A goodbye to kbin ...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So had I!

• A goodbye to kbin ...
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, have UK children not been getting the chicken pox vaccine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.