Meant to comment on this when I first saw it.

It sucks, but after my Kbin instance was swapping over to Mbin (quick shoutout to tuckerm at supermeter.social, dude’s fucking awesome), I decided to give Lotide a shot, and unfortunately, the instance I signed up for didn’t seem to federate at all for the communities I subscribed to.

If people want a federated Reddit alternative that isn’t Lemmy or Mbin, I’m on PieFed rn and it’s honestly been great so far. I like that the source code is on Codeberg, which is what made me swap to Kbin from Lemmy to begin with.

There’s also Brutalinks, which has their source code on SourceHut like Lotide does, but I’ve yet to find a live instance of it: https://git.sr.ht/mariusor/brutalinks

Feel free to disagree, but it’s a bit of a moral thing for me as to whether I’d be comfortable utilizing tools developed by a group with issues like this.

As said in another comment, I’m already on a separate server, that being tchncs. I just personally wouldn’t like to see my usage of the protocol possibly being seen as me being content or indifferent to these heavy moderation issues in their official rooms.

As the other comment said, it’s less used than Matrix, but it’s moreso I’ve heard that XMPP, unlike Matrix, doesn’t really have their own official chatrooms directly managed by XMPP Standards Foundation.

Whether that’s true or not, I’m not quite sure, I still need to do some exploring with XMPP and see for myself, but that being the case alone would prevent a situation like with Matrix where this kind of content is being posted under their direct supervision.

Again, I’m reiterating just to make sure I’m being clear, but it’s not an issue for me if there’s going to be CSAM on the protocol or even on an official server for it, but I’d be uncomfortable using a protocol if that kind of content was being posted and not properly dealt with in official chatrooms.

I’m currently on tchncs. As said in my last paragraph, that while I understand this doesn’t reflect on all servers, rooms, and spaces, it still makes me wonder if I should be using a protocol where the official space for it ran by the foundation building the protocol has such ineffective moderation to the extent that CSAM can exist in their biggest official room for multiple hours.

To give a comparison, let’s take Tor. Tor is used for people to stay anonymous online. Now this of course is a bit of a double-edged sword since on the one hand, you have the intended purpose where people utilize it to circumvent censorship or just as a method to increase their privacy in their daily browsing habits. The other side is people who use it to access and distribute illegal services or content such as buying and selling drugs, or distributing and viewing CSAM.

Now do I feel uncomfortable utilizing Tor because I see them as not doing enough to prevent the bad people from being on their network? Of course not, there’s a lot of great people who use the network from hobbyist projects to simply enhancing people’s privacy. However, if the Tor project had an onion site directly administered by them that constantly had moderation issues with CSAM or illegal services, then I would be more likely to utilize something like I2P because I wouldn’t be comfortable utilizing a service where the developing organization didn’t properly moderate that stuff on their own onion site.

That’s the case with Matrix. I’m not even quite expecting them to be on top of everything sent to their server immediately, but this was the biggest room in their official space, and it becomes a question of whether I’d be comfortable using a protocol where the foundation behind it’s development doesn’t take adequate action dealing with CSAM in their own rooms.

While there are 60K users in the room, only an incredibly small fraction are active there. It works like a Discord server where despite a server having multiple thousands of people in the server, only a small fraction of them will actively post in said server.

These 60K users could be anything from dead accounts to lurkers outside of small percentage that post to the room. However, as an official room under direct supervision of the Matrix Foundation, this still gives a ridiculously bad first glance of the protocol to people.

Ah, my bad, misunderstood Matrix as being part of the fediverse due to the decentralized nature of it and because I saw a cross-post regarding Matrix made to this community.

I’ll delete the post here and keep the original one up.

Look dude, Imma be blunt, but this take has got to be one of the dumbest takes I think I’ve ever seen regarding politics.

You really think there wouldn’t be any consequences at all for just culling 100 million people off the face of the Earth? That’s more than every single death in World War II.

Russia and the world is lucky to not have you as the leader of China because frankly your username matches the quality of the take.

Having a hard time understanding the downvotes on this one. Definitely not a popular opinion by a longshot.

Yeah, no, completely personal use. Not anything I’d be posting or publishing anywhere.

Still want something that specifically generates stories from images.

Funny seeing this around now.

Was looking into trying to find an AI to make stories from images, since I have to deal with the unfortunate reality that for a fandom I like, just about all the fanfic is unbelievably badly written to the point that an AI does a better job making interesting stories. I know they exist, just a question of where the ones that work are.

Simple ask you’d think wanting to find shit that generates stories from images. Search engines hardly helped, so it was like, fine, I’ll ask an AI about AI. Surely it’ll help me find the tool I need, right?

Somehow the results it gave me were worse than the search engine itself.

Standing by it. Prefer it over fresh n hot.

Gotta say, as someone who identifies as a progressive, she’s really been beating my expectations compared to what she was saying and doing back in the 2020 primaries.

Honestly fantastic. Hate being “that guy”, but if a profit is at the end of the agenda, you can never really be sure if what a service provider promises is going to be there for good, or if they’re already doing things behind your back for the profit motive.

Tuta is fine as an email provider, don’t get me wrong, but I just recently swapped from them to Disroot considering I like the latter’s non-profit nature. Just a matter of me becoming able to spare the funds every now and again to donate.

Here’s an Invidious link to the music video, option to watch it on YouTube directly is provided underneath the video on the left-hand side: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=S_IAqwrvEuU

Not trying to rage-bait, being genuine when I say it’s the exact opposite for me.

Like, I can see why people like Queen, don’t get me wrong, but honestly it’s just been the case that their music has been so overplayed. I know Bohemian Rhapsody is a low blow, but I personally get that same vibe with the rest of their music library.

On the other hand, I’ve heard from a lot of people that they find Crazy Frog annoying, and I still personally don’t “get it” as to why they feel that way.

Dope! Thanks for the info. I’ll be sure to join it then.

Who could have ever seen this coming?

Okay but seriously, it’s not like the IDF hasn’t been dehumanizing Palestinian lives for as long as we can remember. They were literally purposely shooting the legs of peaceful protestors during The Great March of Return in 2018 let alone the shit that’s happened since October 7th.

Not denying this, but can I see a source for that? This is the first time I’ve heard of this as someone in Canada and would like to learn more, though can’t say this surprises me unfortunately.

(don’t mind the young account age, I just swapped instances)