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  • I disagree with porn having no place on the Fediverse. A lot of amateur creators started their work on sites like Reddit, and the platform becoming unviable will push them to alternatives like Lemmy.

    However I do agree that there should be some gateways to get to that point. Filtering instances/subcommunities that are marked directly as all-NSFW is a good first step (and should've been part of the protocol from day 1).

    I also see why the default "filter out all NSFW content" filter is problematic (even though it is enforced by app stores on every mobile platform, sadly). A much better approach is to filter subcommunities and instances that are marked as entirely NSFW. That way e.g. news subcommunities can still post NSFW articles that have a wider reach, without anyone's primary feed getting slammed with porn and gore.

  • True, see my other comment about filtering.

    Also, it's Fabergé eggs. Fabrige must be the knock-off Chinese version.

  • Adult conversation equals not NSFW.

    However I do agree that the available filtering is quite lacking. Tons of topics fall under NSFW, and disabling the filter brings the usual Russian Roulette of "will it be a titty or a beheaded guy or a 60yo bloke getting fisted?".

    I've actually brought this up before, the Fediverse in general needs more granular NSFW sub-categories. Like, I have (or now with lemmynsfw being down, I guess, I had) a separate account for porn only. I've disabled NSFW filtering, but that doesn't mean I wanna see gore, rape, murder, animals being gutted, gruesome accident photos, cartel and ISIS execution videos and so on, I just don't want titties blurred in my main feed.

  • There was a "Golden Age" period of dating apps (that actually coincided much with the same "golden age" of many other services including streaming), where making money wasn't the goal, and the services actually served their official goal - pairing up people.

    Problem is, any kind of dating app is self-detrimental for revenue, because if they serve that official goal, they're essentially nixing their own customer base. Because what's the point of a dating app? To find a person you can date, therefore you wouldn't need a dating app anymore. If it works as advertised, users spend bare minimum time on the platform before achieving their goals and leaving it.

    This simply means that a dating platform is only viable in three scenarios:

    • the platform itself is an extension of an existing service, meaning it doesn't have to be financially successful on its own as long as it helps retain users and user-minutes (aka how much time a user spends on the entirety of the service, dating included). See e.g. Facebook's dating subsection.
    • there's VC funding, the app is in a growth phase, therefore the goals can stay as-is as long as userbase growth can be shown to the investors. Problem is, once the platform reaches critical mass and those investors want their money back, from then on, enshittification ensues.
    • the platform is driven not by VC funding or connected services but by a person's or a group of people's genuine interest in getting people paired up. There will be ads, there will be some paid features, but it cannot scale and is therefore doomed to fail on the long run (think pre-dating-app forums specialising on dating/partner-finding)

    Most dating apps fall into the second category, and in fact if you do just a moment's research you'll notice that some 80-90% of the highest traffic (or most known) dating apps are under a single company. Yep, there's a literal dating apps monopoly going on that snuffs out competition, or buys them up and shuts them down, and so on.

    In fact... I'm a mobile app engineer, and I've actually ended up applying to a few dating app startups. The one common denominator between these was not that they wanted to do something new, or wanted to engage people differently than the rest... no. It was that all of these companies were specifically made with a niche idea in mind with the sole purpose of creating a minimum viable product that catches the interest of this dating monopoly and buys the company out. Yup. My job would've been "make our company sellable". You can imagine how inspiring that is, especially when there's no offer of equity on the table...

  • Wouldn't the NSFW filter (which is enabled by default) take care of that?

  • Clearly.

  • If you read the post, it basically boils down to:

    • the Lemmy instance crashing
    • the primary admin (whom would have system level access, not just admin role assigned in the Lemmy instance itself) hasn't been heard from since last October

    sadly it's not uncommon for open source devs and maintainers to "disappear" from the community - a lot of these people do not share what they do with their friends and family, at least not the friends and family that could take over or even take steps in case of their passing. Accidents do happen, so do random events, so it's perfectly possible for such an admin to pass due to some unforeseen reason, and have nobody within their immediate circles who even knew about their role in maintaining the instance.

  • Matrix is a good option, can host it for your friends, and can bridge it to literally dozens of other platforms (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Discord, Signal, Telegram, the list goes on)

  • I'd much prefer to see the US split up into separate states, then form a union much like the EU instead of the monolithic eldritch crap they have right now.

  • Oh, it will most certainly be used to maintain an up to date facial information database that can then be used by authorities who’ve already started facial recognition camera systems all over London (“for now”, only linked to criminal facial databases but obviously the goal is to gather as much data as possible in the near future).

  • is that chocolate pre-digested?

  • Castro did 9/11 is a conspiracy theory I haven't heard of yet.

  • With the current atmosphere in the US I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow twisted the fact that she was against said "erotica mode" to be gender based discrimination because "men want it and women don't" or some other similar bullshit that would usually not fly, but with Big AI and Trump passing money and favours between each other, these companies can literally do anything without any semblance of punishment...

  • The more I hear and see of Mamdani, the more I like him. Even his "stunt" with the kids - usually I frown upon bringing kids into politics, but he seemed to be genuinely interested in representing every single New Yorker, regardless of age, and wants to engage with them to better the city.

  • Our communist club has a picture of Stalin.

    It's used as a spitting target.

  • Given the new CEO... Doubtful.

  • How would this be detrimental in a world where money didn't exist?

    The licence says CONMERCIAL exploitation, aka building a product to sell. In a world with no money, there's no commercialism. There's no commercial exploitation possible because the prerequisite for a commercial operation is commerce, aka the trade of products/produce for money.

  • They're super straightforward though?

    You set up indexers to be searched for content.

    You set up downloaders that can download from the indexers.

    You set up the downloads and the media folder (e.g. the series folder for Sonarr).

    Then you simply add whatever content you want downloaded.

    Finally you can set the renaming in a very neat templating language.

  • No, which makes it even funnier.