<3 thanks

Is there an easy way to see what instances we are defederated from? (I fully support defedding any white supremacist instances, but also love transparency stuff about how the content I see is influenced)

Couple things on my mind regarding this post.

1. Is there any way for us to have transparency on the bans / the rationale that resulted in the ban? I.e. a ban log with the evidence? Lemmy.zip, feels somewhat like a collective, I know it’s not truly, but I’d like it to lean on that direction, as is many instances of Lemmy. So transparency on when / why people are being banned feels important.

2. Love the idea of thinking about the first time user exprience. We should def make those default rules very obvious with explanations on why they’re there, what each of them does, and a one click url or button to remove all pre-added filters. Short and to the point. These communities create controversial content and can be off-putting for new users. Here’s a lost of all pre-applied filters, the rationale for each, and if you’d like click here to remove all filters and start fresh.

Perhaps hosting on GitHub could be good too.

As a whole I’m concerned for Lemmy if/when we become the target of a misinformation / bot campagin, but not sure of there’s anything to do about it til it happens. But feels like it’s relevant for the defed Convo and the pre-applied filter rule. If, for example, some instances have much higher level of bad actors present.

So excited! I hope it has a return to the core original KF vibes.

The interesting thing about weed and ADHD, is that, since weed is a stimulant, if you find the right microdose (edible) it’s super super energizing and you can focus even better because it’s stimulating the under active executive part of your brain.

Failure? They accomplished exactly what they intended to.

Right. So promptly stopping funding Ukraine while grand standing about peace is really just capitulation and giving Russia exactly what they want.

But you’re right. They wanted all of Ukraine. Guess they’ll come back next year for the rest of it.

Lol well. When I saw this I knew the model would be censored to hell, and then the ccp abliteration training data repo made a lot more sense. That being said, the open source effort to reproduce it is far more appealing.

I feel like this is all grand standing. “Look I’m being tough on them” meanwhile working to broker a peace deal that gives Russia everything they want.

Idk why you’re getting downvoted. This right here.

Yeah I agree with this. But then you have all the things thetyve taken away as well (account sharing etc…) and I could make a chart that shows the true price increases as well.

I think, frankly, all you have to do is look at Netflix’s ever increasing annual net income for a very similar chart to above. They are price gouging, despite any additional costs they may have

Furthermore, their content library hasn’t gotten better. They don’t have a lot of the aaa content they used to have. So yeah, people started licensing it for more, and in a lot of cases Netflix said, nah we’ll just have a shittier library.

done.

Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.

Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.

In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.

Lol all good and fair points.

I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads

Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.

I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.

Ah I see you’re learning from the latest installment of the United States government.

I’ll turn this into a corporate selling point!

“Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)”

As kbal pointed out, the standard plan has increased 125% as well. So your original statement really doesn’t track with that.

Yeah, which is even more insane. Probably should have graphed that.

I don’t or at least didn’t read your original comment as “eat the rich”, but I agree. Rereading it I can kind of see the sentiment a bit, but ultimately Netflix 4k isn’t a “rich” kind of thing. Call me crazy but I think their profits show the price increase is just greed. And sure, make it be more than the standard plan, but that doesn’t account for the meteoric price increases.