Yeah but the 9-12 hours of darkness at night is different, those four minutes were completely unexpected by anyone without access to internet or common sense.
I understand the point you're making. Deepfake porn is definitely "too far", and editing celebrities to look like funny caricatures of themselves is definitely not "too far", but exactly where should the line fall? Do we err on the side of being too restrictive so that nobody is offended? Or err on the side of being too lax so that nobody has losses a "legitimate use" of the technology?
This writing style at axios is nearly unreadable. It's like they're trying to turn an article into a bulleted list. I generally appreciate a bulleted summary at the top of an article, but not like this.
Honestly I don't even bother subscribing to comminuted. Communities for me are opt-out via muting rather than opt-in via subscriptions. I still see posts from the news community even though I have several Gaza keywords filtered out.
I recommend some keyword filters. I use them to reduce certain topics from my feed, specifically about certain wars or politicians or celebrities. I did the same thing on reddit to filter out some of the "awareness" campaigns where everyone posted about the FCC chair to every single sub.
I also just browse local communities instead of the entire fediverse. This defeats the purpose of the fediverse, but it drastically reduces the number of duplicate and NSFW communities. I then mute the communities I don't want to see. I'll also mute the hyper specific communities that usually have complete overlap with the more general community, i.e. dogs and dogpictures.
It takes some work to get your feed to your liking, but it's worth it in the end. There's still far less content available than on reddit, but the amount of quality content feels similar.
I recently started doing something similar with my cold brew. I found that I actually prefer either a lot of creamer or no creamer. The middle ground of some or a little creamer just doesn't taste right to me. One unexpected benefit is that omitting creamer has made rinsing/washing my cup much easier.
If it has a 50% chance to increase by 10,000% or a 50% to decrease by 90%, the average expected price is an increase of about 5,000%. It's a finance thing, but I doubt the commenter was serious.
Boost also supports keyword filtering. It's one of my favorite features of the app. I find that browsing local on lemmy.world is sufficiently broad for my taste without needing to block thousands of meme, shitpost, or sports team specific communities.
Keyword filters are helpful for this, especially when people feel the need to post about a topic to every single community they can find. Boost has this as a feature, and I'm pretty sure several other apps do, too.
Sometimes I have to just block certain people, though.
Yeah but the 9-12 hours of darkness at night is different, those four minutes were completely unexpected by anyone without access to internet or common sense.