How could you save a png then? We’re talking about digital files where you can absolutely copy a file without facing any legal repercussions for doing so. Copy paste is the same as making a copy of a work and would make sense under copyright law to be illegal. But its not because that’s ridiculous, and no one will ever be charged for going to Google image search and looking at a copyrighted picture on the screen. Its also not illegal for humans to learn from the art of someone else and then create similar art. I dont know how you can or would be able to even detect that someone has trained an AI for this purpose. Training modern AI with pre-made models to draw a specific person or character in a specific art style is trivial. Its hard to do it if you’re unfamiliar but it requires very few training materials to become very effective. ControlNet and LORA have made this possible. So how could you even tell if someone made such a model, they’ve only downloaded a dozen pictures and there is no effective way to tell that they’ve then trained this model. It would have to come down to their creations being noticeable enough to charge them. Either through profiting from it or by posting that content online.

Personal use is a misnomer by me, what I meant was fair use.

Yes, and personal use exists so that people who are not profiting in any way off of someone else’s copyright are not chargeable under copyright law. Hence why I can download a jpg of an artists painting and that action alone is not breaking any law.

If my AI is not being used to make money, and it is also not being used to slander someone or harass someone, then what law exactly would I be breaking? How would I be harming someone else, by having an AI that I use solely personally and am in no way benefiting from? Can you sue someone for taking a DVD, ripping it, and then rearranging the scenes in a new video file? Have they broken a law solely by creating a derivative work using the original material, even if that work is not making them money and they are commiting no other crime using that work?

AI has only been capable of… half imitating those things for like a year and a half. And most uses are non commercial, and there is not established case law for personal usage of generative artificial intelligence. It would be hard to sue someone for something they aren’t profiting from, or that they are not using as a form of slander or libel or harassment.

The EU, the UK, and the US are all currently developing new laws surrounding the usage of AI. But this is all incredibly new and therefore in progress.

It depends on your local government, you might be able to take it to a rentalsman or local equivalent. Figure out what your rights as a tenant are. If you have none, then the best you could hope for would be to form a tenants union. That takes time though.

Empathy is part of being educated. A capacity to consider the perspective and emotions of others. We’re supposed to be taught that in school, but the amount of people who grow up to be like this shows how badly we are failing.

One of the fastest ways to garner dislike from me is to say something disparaging about the homeless.

Bigotry and prejudice. Not necessarily uneducated, but certainly poorly educated.

I definitely hope the… simply massive amount of information stored there is archived in some way. I was troubleshooting some technical issues for a very niche hardware and software application this morning and the only sources I could find were on reddit.

I feel similarly about Discord. There is so much technical knowledge and information that would be lost in the blink of an eye if Discord shut down.

Just sorta happened. It’s cute. Sharks are cool.

There are a couple lesbian communities. I havent seen anything like 2x or thegirlsurvivalguide yet though. None show up in the community browser either. Someone should start one.

But we can, its the internet. Why shouldn’t we be able to delete things? I’m not a ceo, I’m not a politician. The world has no vested interest in preserving a post i make. I should have control of my data. I seriously cannot fathom how anyone could possibly argue otherwise. I’m an ordinary civilian, and my data should belong to me and I should be able to have it deleted if I so choose. Note that every single massive social media platform essentially by law has to provide you means to do this. Lemmy should not be exempt from this. Whats the point of leaving reddit to join another platform that doesn’t respect its user base? It’s nonsense.

And I never said it was illegal (I specified the opposite actually), but its obviously wrong to walk up to 2 people sitting on a park bench having a quiet conversation between the two of them and record it without even asking them.

I mean, we can absolutely want that. And data farming is bad. Just objectively. Having a conversation in a public area irl isn’t consent to being recorded (not that it is always illegal to do so). And Why should it be on the internet? If the delete option doesn’t actually delete anything, it should clearly reflect that. I have no idea why you would argue against user control of their data.

Lemmy is never going to handle an entire migration of reddit’s whole user base. Most redditors use the official app, and the mainstream audience for the platform now represents the largest user group. They’re not going to wholesale make the jump to Lemmy. That wouldn’t even be possible without widespread coordination of resources. Each instance can only handle so many users, so new instances will have to continually be created to accommodate influx. Theres no profit incentive either, meaning whoever is running the instance server is purely doing it out of their passion for the platform. That doesn’t scale linearly, there’s only so many people out there with the resources to run a large instance.

Measuring the cost isn’t possible. It depends on electricity and equipment costs which vary a lot. And the question doesn’t make sense either.

Lemmy is not supposed to replace reddit. Lemmy is it’s own thing that has already existed for years now. The benefit of Lemmy over individual forums is the interconnectivity of separate communities and being able to view content from multiple communities in one single feed. You can subscribe to communities and view all your subscribed community posts in one feed. Theres also the All sort on the main page, which essentially functions as Lemmy front page. Its also, as you said, not centrally controlled. So if one part fails the rest can continue as normal. That makes it pretty robust. But it isn’t meant to replace reddit, a massive social media platform with millions of users.

Archival efforts are underway by many archival teams.

However you’re right, a lot of things will be lost forever. A lot of old viral reddit posts from 10+ years ago, that kind of thing will probably not make it out of this.

That being said, screw reddit and screw spez. They’re the ones doing this. The site will be un-moderateable anyway once 3rd party mod tools are banned, so it’s going to be barely usable anyway through their broken app.

In a broader sense this is just the way of the internet. Platforms rise to prominence, then slowly dwindle into irrelevance. It has happened many times before reddit and will happen many times again in the future. The amount of media lost in this exchange is monumental. So much of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is lost forever. It’s the transient nature of these kinds of spaces that makes them this way. For instance, archive team maintains a wiki index of all social media platforms that have ever gone down. You can see how much has already gone and you never even knew it was there to begin with.

… but that probably didn’t help with your anxiety 😅 things will be okay. Communities will survive so long as people remain interested enough in them to continue gathering and talking and sharing together. Have faith in the communities you care about, and if you’d like to try you can always help organize a transition to a new platform :)

I know 😔 I cant believe it honestly. Its been a daily use app for me ever since I started browsing reddit on my phone. Originally I got it because there was no official app, but over the years I’ve gotten so comfy with it. I really hope jerboa comes around, or we can plug lemmy into boost which we may actually be able to do, but for now the standard lemmy browsing interface is actually shockingly good on mobile.

Ive been using boost for reddit for a long time. Jerboa is neat but imo not yet sufficient for daily use. Its a new app, development takes time.

Currently to use lemmy I am using Brave browser on Android and using my instance’s website. This seems to be the most robust option available at the moment.

Moderation on here generally seems to be handled very well. The main instances especially, we’ll see how it all holds up as more people make the switch.

Not yet. I’m waiting to watch it all fall apart. Definitely going to suck losing out on so many communities. But I’m no longer interested in the direction its going and have been using boost for a decade to browse. I rarely use reddit on desktop and refuse to use their bloated app. It’s strayed so far from its original design philosophy that deleting it probably won’t hurt all that much.

It has not, but im considering making a lost media community on Blahaj Zone.

I’m not sure thats the best way to go about it, Lemmy functions quite a bit differently from reddit and I’m not sure communities will easily port over in the exact same configuration.

I don’t think its all necessarily stealing, but I would refer back to the reddit community somewhere in the sidebar so people are aware that the community has been ported.