GreatBigJerk

joined 1 year ago
[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about someone generating fake imagery to create fear or anger about something?

There are a lot of ways AI art can be used to deceive.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instagram has like over a billion users. They definitely aren't automatically signing people up.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jury is still out on Twitter. It very well could fail.

It just didn't happen the instant Musk entered the building. This type of thing usually happens on longer timeframes. Digg died unusually fast.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I mean some people just want a social media app without Elon Musk...

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You still have to create a profile on Threads when you set it up. Instagram is waaaay bigger than just 10 million users.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

If an instance does off because Meta won't defederates from it, then it probably would have died off anyway.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

They do if they're collector's boxes. Usually the same for regular editions.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be a shame if subreddits changed their rules to make photos of Tiennamen Square mandatory in all posts.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Defederating helps because it limits their reach to a wider community. They're currently a small group because Lemmy and Kbin are new. If they're left unchecked, they will grow.

You are never going to eliminate groups like this, but deplatforming them prevents their ability to radicalize more people.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Banning white supremacy is not the same thing as making an echo chamber.

[–] GreatBigJerk@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Support for Trump is inherently racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic.

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