You see, it's not the internet censorship tool that prevents you from speaking your mind, it's the people that control it!

You can dislike the tool.

AI was built on stolen work, and will not create a generation of future artists that simply has a new tool available. It'll create a generation of workers that create profit for the wealthy class by generating garbage until it's somewhat presentable. Meanwhile, AI will starve out because it will run out of data to learn from.

Generative AI is the current fad of the tech bro world and it's what everyone clings onto because if everything goes well (for them), they can get future generations hooked and make stupid money. Meanwhile, media literacy will further decline, and with it the ability to look up anything on the internet, making it even more easy for the masses to be controlled.

Yeah no, that's definitely AI. I spotted a couple of flaws and probably missed a bunch, too.

• Left tree: Trunk is thicker further up than further down, the trunk sorta blends into the background.
• There's a pole that's behind the buildings, unsure if connected, but out of place.
• The closest pole has a wire coming from the right that's not connected to anywhere.
• Also in general the posts have no consistent structure at the top.
• The top window in the closest building doesn't make sense. It's connected to the edge on one side but not the other. There's some sort of sheet (let's presume it's in the room) that has a clear corner and white stripe at the bottom but then blends into nothing.
• The curb on the far side of the crosswalk doesn't line up with itself.
• In the middle of the picture, there's a tree that grows out of a building, and one that doesn't appear to have any leaves.

From what I read online, Matrix is not very good with its federated moderation tools. Apparently, a quirk of it can cause the state of a federated channel to reset in time, thus also undoing removing of messages. Here is a blog post criticizing Matrix.

Sweeeeet! Can they be embedded into the article?

The videos aren't from their channel and they probably won't be able to get the rights to rehost them all.

This smells of AI. I can't quite find the usual artifacts I expect (though I'm not that experienced), but the positioning of the legs ~~and arms~~ don't make sense to me. edit: Which is weird because this seems to be an artist who has been at it for longer than AI art existed. Is this just a blunder?

I'd say start with Apple's and Google's app stores.

Scream printing.

I don't think that's how it works and it would likely not be legal. By explicitly blocking Threads, you make a big statement about not wanting your instance's posts to show up there. Also from a technical standpoint, I don't think a "middle-man" instance will push posts from another instance to a third one. You'd have to explicitly scrape data that's not available via the API. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Could you please provide some sources for that? I'd like to know more.

First of all though, there is no such thing as a "hostile fork". Being able to fork a project, for any reason, is the entire point of open source. And to be fair, not wanting to continue working for a for-profit company for free is a very good reason.

And yeah, when you suddenly turn a FOSS project that's been developed with the help of a bunch of contributors, into a for-profit company, without making a big fuss about it beforehand and allow the contributors and community to weigh in, then yeah, that's a hostile takeover of sorts, at least in my opinion. Developers gotta make money, but they could've done that by creating a new brand instead of taking over that of a previously completely FOSS project. Forgejo is preventing that exact thing from happening by joining Codeberg (a non-profit).

Allow the admins of the instance to enforce their rules?

Say you have an instance with a "no-NSFW" rule, for people who don't want to randomly come across NSFW communities. Their admins could take care of the curating of rule-breaking NSFW communities without having to resort to defederating from the entire instance. This doesn't have to be an outright block but just a filter that could prevent the community to show up in "All".

There's Android forks out there that avoid Google's crap. LineageOS and GrapheneOS come to mind. Though I'm less familiar with all that.