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That’s the kind of nuanced response I expected from lemmy about something becoming less left wing ;)

So… How can you possibly justify that start button?

Yes it is. Although I personally have far less moral objections to it.

To elaborate:
OpenAI scraped data without permission, and then makes money from it.

Deepseek then used that data (even paid openai for it), trained a model on that data, and then releases that model for anyone to use.

While it’s still making use of “stolen data” (that’s a whole semantics discussion I won’t get into right now), I find it far more noble than the former.

Thank you for your insightful comment, it tells me a lot. Mostly about you, but still.

I only know the guy from the thumbnails and dead eyes. But this really feels like reaching for a justification to hate.

If you’ve seen (also past tense) any movie by, for example, Bryan Singer, you have consumed art made by a pedophile.

I’m not defending him (I honestly don’t care about him), all I’m saying is that without any context, these kind of statements are kinda cheap and meaningless.

I’d say that federation is the core principle of the network, so centralisation by piling all the users and content onto one server is very undesirable.
(also looking at you, lemmy.world)

uh huh-huh.

Because triggered and hate circlejerk.

Yeah, if making money is evil, this guy is worse than Hitler!

Cue.

For those of us that are not familiar with all the (future) online laws worldwide, based on what clauses will they be shutting down?

I skimmed the article, but couldn’t find the specifics.

Check out OP defending Apple in every comment in this thread. It would be funny if it weren’t so… yeah.

Everyone who disagrees must be a paid shill huh?

Have you ever heard of Hanlon’s Razor?

I do think every instance should preemptively defederate threads (I did on mine). But assuming that everyone who disagrees must be a shill, rather than just naive or uninformed… That’s some serious next level conspiracy theory.

How would they be more powerful than in the current situation?

Nope, they aren’t as universal as EFI. I think the closest comparable attack vector for “old tech” is a bootsector virus.

Maybe.

If it’s an Ukrainian anti-Russia server, yes. And for that matter, I’d also be against a Russian anti-Ukrainia lemmy server. Are you starting to see the pattern?

No, it’s because the proposal for this new instance stems from the Israel/Palestine conflict - it’s literally the opening sentence. Whether they’re pro one or the other is irrelevant to me.

I am not convinced, but hope to be mistaken.

Peace be with you.

I still think that would effectively imply isolation (at least, moreso than not doing it). What you’re describing to me still has a lot of characteristics of an echo chamber. And by spending time on that instance, in those communities, you’ll be spending less time on “generic” instances and communities. In doing so, those instances will, in turn, also become less diverse and more echo-ey.

Again, I understand your reasoning (except for the corporate censorship, there is none on Lemmy AFAIK), but I do think it’s a step in the wrong direction.