I agree. Nevertheless, people here prefer arbitrary decisions based on rules that are so broad that they only encourage arbitrary decisions by the moderators. From this, I can only conclude that even the people here would rather be entertained than face the adversities of reality.

For me, that is unacceptable - so I’m moving on.

I’ve tried so many comms by now that I’ve lost interest. From now on, I’m just not going to post anything anymore. I’ve said this to myself many times before for the very same reason, but the downvotes on this post confirm it unequivocally. I obviously have no business being here.

Feel free to take a look at my profile to decide whether I really am such an unpleasant person that I shouldn’t be allowed to express my views in any community with some viewability.

This struggle is simply not worth it to me. I’ve also cancel my financial support - I’m sure you’ll manage well without me.

Here’s an example: I posted on /c/unpopularopinion that it can’t be right that even a well-known actor like James Van Der Beek is becoming impoverished because he can’t afford the cost of his cancer treatment. I posted there because I know from experience that this would not be allowed in other communities because it is supposedly a political post - even at unpopularopinion, the post was removed by the moderators.

Therefore, I believe that this arbitrary rule is completely absurd.

Go back to reddit please.

I’ve been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I’m starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.

So get a decent block list…

You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.

However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality…

And so I’m supposed to leave it up to some random person to decide whether to allow me to speak?

How absurd is it that /c/unpopularopinion has “no politics” as its first community rule - as do most of the Lemmy communities with the widest reach? This achieves nothing but opening the floodgates to arbitrary censorship. And why is that? For the simple reason that people would rather be entertained…

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Yes, exactly. That’s why I’m concerned about the system in my home country. However, I find it incomprehensible how anyone who is a US citizen can still believe in the illusion that the US is a democracy. It has been an oligarchy for at least thirty years and, to be honest, always has been - that is to say, a nation that is actually ruled by a few instead of by its people. This was the case long before the first term of the current, unusually criminal president. He has changed little in terms of the facts, but is simply particularly unscrupulous, thus making it obvious that the US system has long since ceased to have anything to do with democracy.

I’m sorry to have to say it so bluntly, but your comments suggests that, like many Americans, you are not really aware of what a democracy is. If there were such awareness in the US, it would not be possible, for example, for there to be no statutory health insurance, no protective rights for workers, and so on.

Is that really what democracy is about, or is that just what billionaires have made of it?

I ask because you are applying a monetary standard instead of what the citizens want. This leads me to suspect that you are a US citizen, as this system no longer has much to do with democracy at all since the fewer than twenty people who make up the Supreme Court, the highest judicial authority in the US system, ruled that there is no upper limit on “campaign donations,” that they do not have to be disclosed, and that “political consultants,” such as Musk, do not need confirmation by the people to be entrusted with powers that in any other democracy worthy of the name would naturally require the consent of the citizens.

Oh, and one more thing: the Supreme Court has also ruled that the US president is de facto above the law – which is also incompatible with any democratic constitution.

I would say that it wasn’t us, the ordinary people, who created this terrible world, but we definitely allowed the worst among us to do so - and we even rewarded them for it, so that this monstrous world is now ruled by the most ruthless, like a monarchy that was believed to have been overcome. Apparently, civilizational progress is not bound to the passage of time, as I strongly suspect that we are regressing civilizational: back to absolutism with its degenerate rulers who give free rein to their perverse desires - and they can do so, because they are at the top of a society they exploit with impunity.

The thing is: it is no longer necessary to burn fossil fuels for transportation or energy production. The idea that this is still necessary is a narrative fueled by the money of a few unscrupulous people, which is what this random post is about. It is a lie that will lead us all to ruin.

We simply cannot continue the status quo. This conclusion is not just my opinion, but a proven fact that, to my knowledge, no reputable scientist would dispute.

Unfortunately, the Eppstein case proves that not even this is their downfall.

That’s a really good analogy. Thank you very much for that.

Oh, I enjoy studying history. And I find it terrible that apparently no one learns from history, because otherwise fascism would not be back in vogue.

I find the AI audio translation on YouTube, which Google now seems to be imposing as standard, to be the most absurd thing of 'em all: even the intros are so poorly translated that it couldn’t be more ridiculous.

I’m sure many users don’t realize that this is supposed to be a “feature” and mistakenly believe that the foreign-language video they deliberately clicked on is obviously AI-generated because the audio track is so horribly bad.

Well, another reason for PeerTube…

This development will certainly not end with books - countless other creative and intellectual achievements have long been affected. That is precisely the problem with generative models, whether they involve text, code, video, images, or whatever else. All of this boils down to the fact that the already precarious situation for everyone who creates value by themselves is continuing to deteriorate. Professional work in all these areas will undoubtedly become even more precarious in the future, with artists, designers, and writers, who were already in a difficult position, now being joined by industries such as software development and administrative work.

Please don’t get me wrong: I am anything but a technology pessimist, but the business model of the so-called AI companies is so exploitative and their owners so unscrupulous that, given the status quo (cloud models), I can hardly imagine that this will lead to even halfway fair working conditions or remuneration models for people who create value in the form of intellectual achievements. I mean, this post is a vivid example.

So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won’t pay the author a single dime?