They’re necessary, but any power will always bring a chance that someone will abuse it. So I usually prefer moderators with a lighter touch, that talk to their users before taking more controversial actions.

Begun, the git clone wars have.

Hm, but it sounds to me like this will be a problem for Reddit’s plans regardless of AI.

If people start churning out upvote-worthy AI-generated content and posting it on Reddit, then Reddit will be happy with all the extra views coming from Google. They won’t mind.

So, every year on my birthday, I could go here and pretend I’m still 20. Yay.

It’s technically not gerrymandering, but the electoral college is a very similar issue.

So basically: only do this if you enjoy sucking dick? Noted.

But it’s a rock with purpose. You know where it’s supposed to go. Its fate is now in your hands.

Upvotes and downvotes, sure, but actual karma that’s tracked per account, no. I don’t think that’s planned either, but I could be mistaken.

Just look at that wasp waist. Come on, you know she’s hot.

Ads can deliver viruses, many ads are animated or have sound, or both. If every ad were static and safe, I wouldn’t mind so much… but alas, that’s not a thing. So AdBlock it is!

I agree. A thing can be sensitive content for more than one reason at the same time.

I agree that the de-federation and attitude is worrysome, but I disagree on your stance towards more tags. Servers that disallow NSFW now, might choose to allow NSFW but not porn. Servers that allow NSFW now, are likely to keep allowing both. Servers just don’t want to deal with liability and weird protocol quirks showing people stuff they don’t want, so they’ll ban any category that’s likely to include stuff they don’t want. More fine-grained tagging means they can ban a smaller selection of things.

I’m all for various kinds of tags to indicate why someone might not want to view certain content.

Interesting style! Reminded me of Jollyjack at first. I feel like you two have a similar use of colour and exaggerated shapes. The meme is funny too, of course.

The Onion, I think?

Okay, this is a good article. I was on the fence about Meta, wondering how they’d cause any damage, and this article cleared that up for me.

That long borzoi snout has been a meme for quite a while now, often accompanied by a “let me do it for you… kermie”, a snippet from a Muppets show where Miss Piggy sings to Kermit, at a high pitch.

Hey, let’s not be insulting. Sometimes it’s a hot glue gun and a soldering iron, used purely for melting through plastic.

Man, as an outsider, I thought all newsgroups began with alt.*

I think that would self-correct when such a thing would be implemented. They’d just get more specific names, like solarpunktech or such. It would be an issue for existing communities like that though.