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  • And if people weren't looking for a reason to leave Twitter, we wouldn't be having this conversation. The point is that this is how decentralized / open standards have been broken and made proprietary in the past.

  • They don’t pull users away from the competition, they grow their own user base much faster than the competition, the result being that most of the popular content is on their platform. If you want to follow that celebrity/ influencer / news organization/ sports reporter/ politician, you need to join threads.

  • Yes and no:

    Yes, votes are shared between instances. However, they aren’t synchronized. When you click on “upvote”, your server sends a message to the community with the requested change. The remote server applies that change, then sends messages to other remote servers with that update.

    There are retries built in, but if for some reason one of those messages doesn’t get delivered, the different instances will get out of sync. I do not think there is a mechanism for “catching up” once this happens.

  • Yes, absolutely. This not only limits fragmentation due to defederation, but would really help scaling as well. Having user servers lets those servers focus on being essentially caching servers, while limiting load on any community server.

  • I think an important take-away from this is that Lemmy pushes changes between instances, it does not synchronize. Instances get out of sync when changes get lost (as you describe) and I don’t think there is a mechanism for the destination to know it it out of sync with its peers.

  • My crazy theory is that Musk’s sudden political shift is because the above demographic was getting saturated with Teslas, and he needed to broaden his market. He learned from the blind loyalty Trump gets from his cult of personality, and is looking to duplicate that success.

  • You are saying that it isn’t original content because AI can’t be original. I’m saying if the content isn’t distinguishable from original content, and can’t be directly traced to the source, in what way is it not original?

  • I think you hear a lot of college students say the same thing about their original work.

    What I need to see is output from an AI, and the original content side by side and say “yeah, the AI ripped this off”. If you can’t do that, then the AI is effectively emulating human learning.

  • I think you hear a lot of college students say the same thing about their original work.

    What I need to see is output from an AI, and the original content side by side and say “yeah, the AI ripped this off”. If you can’t do that, then the AI is effectively emulating human learning.

  • And exactly which AI is republishing content unmodified?

    We are creating content based on this article, but no one is accusing us of stealing content. AIs creating original content based on their “experience” is only plagiarism (or copyright violation) if it isn’t substantially original.

  • And exactly which AI is republishing content unmodified?

    We are creating content based on this article, but no one is accusing us of stealing content. AIs creating original content based on their “experience” is only plagiarism (or copyright violation) if it isn’t substantially original.

  • So anyone who creates something remotely similar to something online is plagiarizing, got it.

    Folks, that’s how we all do things - we read stuff, we observe conversations, we look at art, we listen to music, and what we create is a synthesis of our experiences.

    Yes, it is possible for AI to plagiarize, but that needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis, just as it is for humans.

  • So anyone who creates something remotely similar to something online is plagiarizing, got it.

    Folks, that’s how we all do things - we read stuff, we observe conversations, we look at art, we listen to music, and what we create is a synthesis of our experiences.

    Yes, it is possible for AI to plagiarize, but that needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis, just as it is for humans.

  • Federation with Kbin has been broken since before the upgrade. Reading OP, it sounds like Kbin Lemmy compatibility is going to be problematic until Lemmy stabilizes. User bases is going to dictate that Kbin follow Lemmy rather than the opposite, unless they find a solution that is fundamentally better than how Lemmy does it.

  • Federation with Kbin has been broken since before the upgrade. Reading OP, it sounds like Kbin Lemmy compatibility is going to be problematic until Lemmy stabilizes. User bases is going to dictate that Kbin follow Lemmy rather than the opposite, unless they find a solution that is fundamentally better than how Lemmy does it.