Lemmy is a lot "bubblier" than Reddit, I suspect because the communities are smaller. It's a lot easier for a community to have a preferred view on things, even things you wouldn't suspect were part of the community's theme, and if you take the wrong position you'll get pummeled with downvotes more easily.
Not that it doesn't happen on Reddit too, but I see it far more here on Lemmy. I'm still active on both and while I haven't done any formal comparison you're asking how it "feels" and that's definitely how it feels. I speak my mind freely on both platforms but on this one I'm more likely to see a pile of downvotes.
Thanks! DFCaverns was kind of my "baby", and the one I keep thinking I should get back into modding to continue developing. I can't promise anything, of course, but this is of course fun and encouraging to hear. :) Making DFCaverns Mineclone-compatible was quite a chore back in the day, glad to hear it's still working!
Oh, neat. Yeah, that's me. :) Been a couple of years since I've picked up the modding pen, but I still remember those days fondly. Just got really busy with life for a while and fell out of the habit.
Well, yes, why would you believe something without seeing it? But given how litigious the publishing industry is about this kind of thing I don't see it as likely that they wouldn't fight.
They'll compare the amount the publishers are demanding against how much it would cost them to lawyer up to prevent that and any future payments. Meta's heavyweight enough that they can use "lobbying their way out of the law, aka changing the law so that they're not violating it at all" as a strategy.
If they do simply pay the publishers off, oh well, at least it's just the status quo. But I don't see a reason to assume that's the way this is going to go. Other countries have already carved explicit exceptions to copyright for AI training, Meta would be in favor of that kind of thing.
I think this is still going to be a net benefit to us, though. Meta may not have contributed much bandwidth, which is leeching in the short term, but in the long term they're now forced to contribute something much more important; lawyer power. Meta is going to have to fight to defend piracy.
Trump imagines himself a real estate magnate who builds luxury vacation properties, this might genuinely be one of his own ideas this time. It's terrible enough that I'd believe it.
AI would be able to do a good first pass on it. Except that an AI that was able to reliably recognize child porn would be a useful tool for creating child porn, so maybe don't advertise that you've got one on the job.
I expect that a lot of this isn't "bowing down to Trump", it's just people going "oh good, I can stop wasting money on initiatives I didn't really believe in without facing backlash over it."
generative ai though? absolutely not, we need to burn it down.
If it's really not useful then there's no need to burn it down. It's expensive to run so anyone using it must just be burning money themselves.
That's not true, though. I know it's not true because I'm making extensive use of AI myself, and it is indeed useful. I even run local models for some of the tasks I use AI with. I can assure you it's not going away because I have all the tools I need to keep on using it indefinitely, even if for some reason the companies producing this stuff all shut down or stopped right this moment.
It may not be useful to you, and that's fine - use it or don't, it's up to you. But it's not going away because other people do want to use it for various things.
I'm not expecting them to do anything specifically to benefit the rest of us. But let them fight. If nothing else, it costs them money.