Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@slothrop Decentralization definitely doesn't work if the underlying software stack is unmaintained, so you should still consider helping finance that if you support it.

Reminder that Mastodon costs time and money to develop, and the flagship instances do too.

You can donate to the project via Patreon, starting a $1/month: https://patreon.com/mastodon

@allen099 @mollyjongfast Posting a link will not embed the content of the post, so it makes it harder to turn it into a performative narrative.

@Thegreenman @Gargron I think an even more elegant solution is to resist putting other users on blast in any way.

@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org @mollyjongfast @Gargron

Ironically, this would have been a great opportunity to use a "Quote Toot" to show you what Eugen said, but I think the toxicity outweighs the benefit.

Here's a link: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99662106175542726

@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org @mollyjongfast

@Gargron posted about it a while back.

To paraphrase: quote tweeting takes a response that should be delivered to an individual, and instead delivers it to your followers in a performative way that can lead to dogpiling. Even if you're trying to do something "good" like ridicule a bad take, you're just giving that bad take a wider audience.

@MickeyMaousse @finlaydag33k The fact that you can input the names of living artists and have the AI emulate their style is a major issue. These GAN art generators are novel and entertaining, but the industry is very inappropriately pushing for this to be some sort of creator tool, and refusing to discuss how it could constitute infringement.

I view it as extremely unethical, outside of personal entertainment purposes.

@finlaydag33k

I understand the idea behind AI-assisted coding, and it could be very useful in the long term, but if it is regurgitating existing licensed code verbatim without attribution, it is just a tool for open source license infringement.

Until they can ensure that code is properly attributed, it shouldn't be productized. I firmly expect them to lose these lawsuits.

@A8bit Spam posts like this will earn your instance a place on other instances' blocklists.

If you want to be boosted, post good content.

Best Twitter alternative: Dwitter.

It's like Twitter, but you can only post JavaScript canvas.

https://www.dwitter.net

Thank you to my 800+ new followers. The fact that my viral Tweet gained me more followers here than there speaks volumes!

I plan to follow a lot of you back, but I have a lot of profiles to review through before I do that.

@JulienD @mariusz @Gargron you can always start your own instance that doesn't defederate. Complaining doesn't make sense, nobody has ultimate authority here.