But what if it’s actually a man pretending to be a bear?

How do you have a football site and NOT list the NFL or college teams as an option? I do t recognize any of the leagues on that list.

I hate the idea of “blocking” a user or community, to me I hear “block” and imagine a user who harasses me or posts actual spam, whereas someone who comments politics a lot might also comment non-political stuff I’d like to see, or if an event is big enough I could see cross posts in more niche communities. I wish there was a “show me less of this on the front page” option.

What’s that supposed to mean?

Yeah, it’s happened multiple times that a website has reached critical mass such that normal people start joining and posting a variety of interests, rather than just non-stop posting about their super duper hardened non-fingerprintable self hosted LibreWolf instance with VPN to prevent those dirty big tech companies from stealing their precious browsing history data. No one will ever know how much they prefer AMD cards over NVIDIA and that they use Arch BTW! And general news and politics (Capitalism Bad™).

How much worse could it really become in terms of politics? It already feels like 60% of posts are politics, and jumps to 90% if you include the “Windows/Google/AI bad, use Linux/Librewolf/Selfhost” posts.

Sadly that’s not one of my niche interests. But thanks for the offer!

That was over 30 years ago, longer than I’ve been alive. I just want niche communities to subscribe to (Cities: Skylines, model trains, Madison WI) instead of the constant barrage of generic politics, Linux obsession, and low effort memes.

All I see is about 60% general news/politics (pointing out the obvious, Trump bad, ICE bad, America is dumb, people should be rioting in the streets from all the bad things, capitalism bad), 30% Linux/FOSS circlejerk (don’t use Chrome, use Firefox, don’t use Firefox, use Librewolf, don’t use AI, Linux always works out of the box and is so easy to use even a grandparent can do it, it also has an App Store, oh you had an error with the App Store just start typing black magic into the command line, and don’t use snaps, I use arch BTW), and 10% low effort memes (Greentext, ADHD memes, usually generic and low effort). None of these are particularly plentiful — except for the fact that they’re the ONLY content seemingly available — and none are high quality either. I don’t ever see any Cities: Skylines content for instance, let alone Workers and Resources. Have to go to Reddit for that.

I disagree about being content with a small user base, I want more niche communities beyond News/Politics, Linux/FOSS, and memes.

I thought Linux was supposed to be easy to use and that implies not needing to use a terminal?

Which OS?

I feel like a lot of the communities here are generic “meme” communities, which are low effort to begin with and thus easy to invade with slop. And many other communities iterate the same tired points about Linux/FOSS which sees easy for an LLM to imitate. Just prompt it to say “windows bad, use Librewolf”.

Does the 18-28 crowd even use Facebook anymore? Oh wait they probably do since even if they don’t post on the “main” portion, they still need an account for Facebook Marketplace, and Facebook is often the only source of truth for local businesses and social groups.

But how can we really tell what’s AI content and enforce it? I feel like there’s only these tiny tell tales that are getting harder and harder to spot. It’s gotten to the point that legitimate content (certain writing styles and images) are getting “called out” as AI even if the image has been around longer than DALL-E has.

What’s wrong with an Amazon? The products do t break the bank and the 2 day shipping is really nice to have, plus they have a fairly generous return policy in case anything goes wrong.

At last China is still capable of building infrastructure for the benefit of its citizens. I’m envious of their high speed rail network.

To be fair, genital mutilation is probably the least of America’s worries at this point, they should see about fixing their monthly school shooting “surprises” first.

Oh dang that’s sad if true. I forgot that books used to be treated in a high enough regard that people believed women couldn’t write them, usually I only see them as the punchline to an insult nowadays (“You’re wrong and an idiot, read a book”).

I do feel like the accusations are kind of on a different level though. Books are long and you usually know the author (they have a face, a name, a husband) so the husband insult was to discredit the author rather than the material itself. Meanwhile most written content today is news articles and Lemmy comments put out by generic news websites or faceless avatars — the content is all you have to judge them by. And considering how much of the content made by soulless websites actually is AI slop, it’s hard to see it as an attempt to discredit women. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens, but it’s probably a very small percentage of total AI accusations.

Do those all degrade the speed of copy and paste as well?