Given the way that Lemmy's federation currently works, with content being cached on remote instances, I think it's really important that the admins of instances are able to moderate what is cached on their instance. I agree that it seems odd, but if the feature were removed they'd have no control over what was being cached on their server and potentially over what they have legal liability for.
It's a serious issue with the way that Lemmy handles things, but is kinda endemic to the design at this point.
I'm pretty sure posting pictures of people you know without their consent is explicitly against LemmyNSFW's rules, and not only that it's liable to get them in some serious legal trouble. Doesn't seem like a good sign for their platform if that's on there...
Leigh made an analogy to how in kink communities, it's generally not cool to involve people in your kink who didn't consent to it, and that defederating was basically just Blahaj Zone saying that they don't consent to seeing any sort of ageplay-adjacent content.
I'm saying that's a bad analogy, because they could just ban the offending content if that was the only concern; instead they've banned the entire instance by association. I'm not saying it's a bad call, just that it's a step beyond "don't involve me in your kink", it's now "I don't want to see anyone who lives in the same house as you while you do your kink, even if it has nothing to do with your kink."
I think it's a little more complicated than that. If it were just a matter of not consenting to seeing their play, that community would be blocked. But instead, the entire instance has been defederated, so that's not really a fair comparison.
The only thing you can "pirate" is LLaMA, and it's not really piracy you can just grab it from HuggingFace on the honor system. Check out GPT4All or oogabooga, which will both give you nice web interfaces to selfhosted LLMs.
You'll need some beefy hardware to get responses comparable to the commercially available models, but it is possible—if impractical.
The Fediverse is everything that is connected via ActivityPub. You have Lemmy and Kbin, but you also have Mastodon serving as a Twitter analogue, PeerTube as a YouTube analogue, Pixelfed as an Instagram analogue, etcetera, all of which are part of the Fediverse umbrella.
The Threadiverse is just the "forum" side of the Fediverse, the Reddit-alikes. At this point that means just Lemmy and Kbin, but there's no reason there couldn't be more alternatives in the future.
I think the concept of the Fediverse is still really alien to people, even the people who are using it. Everyone is still so used to their centralized platforms, so they still think of the Fediverse in terms of platforms rather than as a whole.
You still hear people say "Mastodon" to mean the microblogging corner of the Fediverse even if they're not actually on Mastodon, and now people say "Lemmy" to mean the link aggregation corner of the Fediverse even if not everyone is actually on Lemmy.
Melmi @ melmi @lemmy.blahaj.zone Posts 1Comments 246Joined 2 yr. ago
At some point the metaphor starts falling apart a bit...