James R Kirk

I’m not sure what this is meant to convey but I upvoted it anyway because I didn’t want to experience bij.

The reason behind his weird android haircut is that he thought it looked Caesar-esque.

Someone said elsewhere that that whole plot is EXTREMELY in the vibe of TOS and it made me appreciate it a lot more.

Totally I loved seasons 4 and 5 the most

LOL and we are better for it

I’m loathe to defend Reddit’s moderation decision but my experience you can never trust the person being banned to explain why they were banned.

Because it is a post to an entirely different social media site.

Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:

That means this short reel has been viewed more times than every single article 404 Media has ever published, combined and multiplied tens of times.

It doesn’t shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but “multiplied tens of times”? A recent comment me chuckle:

“Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore.”

(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).

I think it’s interesting how “maximizing for engagement” inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?

S-tier effort meme.

In short, when too many cooks are in charge, it’s hard to make a good meal. Take content moderation, for example.

The take that Fediverse moderation is “not as effective” always makes me smile, because:

1. The moderator-to-user ratio is several orders of magnitude better on the fediverse because volunteer-run instances have zero incentive to grow beyond their ability to self-moderate. But also-

2. Do you really expect that paid employees (or even trained AIs) are going to be more effective at recognizing who/what is disrupting a community than existing members with a personal stake in it’s quality?

Also, as aside I am very happy they said “Bluesky, if it manages to become truly federated” and not the “promises to be” or “is federated” language we usually see.

We have an entire instance dedicated to popular 1960s television show Star Trek (don’t go there)

I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit’s MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

Regardless, this is nice to see and I recommend everyone check out [email protected] if they are interested in helping to promote Lemmy instances on Reddit.

…Propaganda? Cnet?

Well said. I think AI “art” is really best considered just a form of entertainment since there is no human perspective put into it. Adam Savage said it best (paraphrasing here) “In order for me to be interested in a work of art it needs to be coming from a point of view. I don’t see anything resembling a point of view with AI.”

“Portable identities” is a major feature of Mastodon and ActivityPub platforms in general. It’ll be on Lemmy one day too.

major GPT vibes