Its harm potential is somewhere in between. To put it in perspective, alcohol is worse than heroin. And like alcohol addicts, your friends should be able to get a clean and safe source to reduce damage, and the help they need without any fear of persecution.

You can’t criminalize problems away. It evidently didn’t help your friends.

The new Lemmy 19 allows users to block instances so that’s not unreasonable for the largest instances. Gotta show new users that users have control.

Distilling has been around since forever. It’s a legitimate technique that can give you a better model depending on your needs.

OpenAI does it too to improve its models.

(They were not serious)

Why would a nonprofit org do that?

Defederation? What happened?

It changes only when you disable regional search.

We’ll be driving monster trucks in 2033

In this case we’re talking literal stolen pets though.

People who use ad blockers aren’t the type of people to click the ads. We’re doing a Google a service by improving conversion statistics.

A plane only has one plane worth of spare parts though.

Zuckerberg is just a man, not a technology

On Reddit I’ve found most of the billionaire news in tech subs is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.

I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.

It’s rare, but this franchise owner understands very well that a lot of people hate Barbie. It’s even in the trailer “If you love Barbie, this movie is for you. If you hate Barbie, this movie is for you.”

I mean it’s not a groundbreaking feminist and anti-capitalist critique, but you do understand that the opening is intentionally tacky and childish, right? You should have stayed to see what the next 1,5 hours of the movie had to say about that tackiness.

On Lemmy you only see local communities by default. On Mastodon you see posts from instances that the admin linked. Idunno about kbin etc

You can block communities and users on Lemmy. You can’t block instances, but that wouldn’t make sense since you don’t see their content unless you go there or subscribe to a community. Maybe blanket blocking users from an instance would be useful.

I’m not confused. You can block people on Lemmy.

On Reddit I’ve found most of the news about the big social networks is posted by only handful accounts, they also don’t post other interesting things, so you can just block them.

I’m hoping that’ll work on Lemmy as well.

I don’t think it legitimizes that. Fans can be blissfully unaware of an artist’s politics. Or better: loving their art in spite of their politics can be empowering. It removes the hate from the art and turns it into a positive force. This has been done over and over again with Lovecraft’s work. That took effort. Not so much with Sinead’s songs, cause her “racist” fit was so impotent to begin with.