It's too late, go on without me. Save yourselves!

I have absolutely no idea what piefed is, even though the blahaj community has posted a lot about it recently. I'm just glad I can still access this community from the same app.

This is a really positive change. Moving to blahaj will hopefully make a significant impact on the concerns raised recently in this community. I'm glad that you guys have been proactive about protecting this community and have also been vocal about concerns that this community has raised.

Ada is amazing I'd like to also thank her for facilitating this move and also generally for being such a positive influence in so many communities.

I do have a few questions.

In light of the concerns raised, do you have anything else planned to overcome these challenges?

While I see the removal of downvotes as generally a good thing, are there any other means by which the community can self moderate besides reporting posts or comments that go against the overall mission of this community?

Are you, or would you, consider(ing) changing the community from blacklist to whitelist? Like blahaj is overall with their sign up applications. I'm not advocating for this I'm just curious if this is something that's been considered.

Finally, if Lemmy grows significantly how do you plan to handle the impact that this will have on the community? If we are already having issues with external influences I only see that becoming worse if Lemmy were to see an increase in membership.

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I don't know if it's possible but some communities on Reddit had an account age limit to prevent spam, harassment, and also to ensure active moderation had a long-term effect. Is this something we could implement here?

I've been waiting for a story like this to happen in the UK for a while now. When I saw this I was actually surprised to see it was in the US. It's only a matter of time, if it hasn't already happened.

Not a real answer, sorry. I never found tutorials helpful. I just bought a bunch of clearance items and experimented. A lot of tutorials talk as if you already know what you're doing so I found them nothing more than frustrating. Also, a lot of the stuff they use is so expensive!

I don't know if there are tutorials that use cheap items and are actually for beginners (there almost certainly is) but I ended up learning from trial and error. Just make sure if you do what I did you buy some decent stuff to clean it all off with.

Very true. While my partner does do chores, it is seen that way by some of my family. He is "helping" me. No, he's doing his part of the chores that we both agreed to how it would be divided up. But no it's seen as polite of him to "help" me.

He is good for it but I feel that the fact that I have to say that is evidence of the problem. I don't think the same would be said of me because it's expected.

Your clothes do not teleport with you

You now lactate and secrete rennet. Making it possible for you to harvest the ingredients and make cheese at will.

You can only shift into a species that you've seen before. Can only shape shift into living things (not sentient and mobile inanimate objects)

And you can never return to any species you were previously. It has to be a new one every time until you exhaust the possible species. Leaving you stuck as the last possible species you pick to shape shift into.

I love warm, cosy, fluffy clothes. I loathe that I'm too warm right now because it's summer.

It looks AI generated

Money is so incredibly devoid of creativity it hurts. They see it as nothing more than an extension of the ever present algorithm. It's so fucking sad. I get that a lot of money is spent on making these systems but why can't it be for anything more than printing more money. (Yes capitalism, comrades, I get it)

I'm sleep deprived and have only thought about it for 10 minutes but here's some ideas off the top of my head..

1. Use AI to assist in reporting the disgusting content that's pumped out for kids on YouTube. You don't want to pay people to review every video so at least get it to report suspicious content.

2. Train it to spot the signs of fraud to help prevent people falling for scams or identity theft

3. Specialise it rather than some generalised system that spurts out bullshit. Actually give it roles. A purpose to exist. ChatGPT is not a personal assistant, it wasn't designed to be one. It cannot function reliably as one. If you want to sell it as that then make it do that reliably and nothing more.

4. Train AI to assist in accessibility broadly across the internet. A page doesn't have TTS no problem our AI was made for this purpose. The images have no meta description? It's all good our AI will interpret what it sees for you. Unable to pass this captcha because of impairment? no worries our AI will deal with it.

5. For fuck sake design it to want more than immediate satisfaction from the user. I don't want a one stop solution to an issue I want to discuss it and figure it out. Let it think for more than one second. Let it contemplate over the broader discussion rather than just my last response. Let it speak not simply respond. Let it speak honestly when it does not know an answer or is uncertain. It is merely glorified I/O in its current form. Useless for anything more than asking it which side to butter my toast (and 50% of the time it'd confidently declare that I should butter the crust). If you must burn the climate and doom our children in order to operate a b-movie skynet then please at least let it have the decency and respect to tell me it's as ignorant as the apes that funded its existence.

Yes. Will it be good? No.