The existence of Lemmy is a testament to this.

Lemmy has existed before the reddit shitshow.

Human language change happens first of all because the reality that the language is meant to represent changes. I.e. you create a new thing, you create a new name for it too.

ChatGPT does not intend to represent a reality when it uses a language. It does not even know of a reality outside of its language.

Human language also changes due to various rather vague “economic” reasons, e.g. simplified pronunciation, merging sounds, developing some new habits in grammar that spread within one community but do not spread elsewhere… For example, we have extremely obvious proof that Latin developed into Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, etc., so language change clearly isn’t some magical process. On the other hand, if you fed a ton of ancient Latin into ChatGPT, it wouldn’t even develop the pronunciation of medieval Latin used by priests, much less the totally different descendant languages that developed at the time.

I have a nasty tootache right now, so… seeing this thread and your post feels like some ironic joke that the universe arranged for me :D

(Thankfully paracetamol is helping, but most likely they will have to pull it out.)

they are often expensive and not everyone can afford those

the average costumer and mobile data plans which are **mostly certainly inevitably caped **

I’m sure you know a lot about the pricing and internet caps across the entire world. 🙄

So you understand the system very well, yet completely ignore the ethically dubious aspects of the system.

People are not born desiring harmful garbage. They are, at least in part, taught, conditioned to desire it.

When you say that a site “feeds you whatever you want”, you’re ignoring the chicken-or-the-egg pattern of desire and satisfaction on the market. The site teaches you want you want. Internet addiction and the ways in which contemporary media and tech affect your mind (most obviously by reducing people’s attention spans) are fairly well known today.

Imagine a drug dealer who sells his garbage to the same person so much that they develop an addiction. With your logic, we can just blame the junkie who keeps returning to the dealer, while the dealer is pretty much innocent - surely it’s not his responsibility if someone else develops an addiction and destroys their life!

You can relativise things all you want, it’s a fact that online insanity does leak back into the reality. For example see Qanon, or Brenton Tarrant, who used to frequent 4chan and 8chan. Not to mention the more trivial things such as people openly agreeing with Andrew Tate, or becoming fans and voters of Donald Trump due to his online presence, etc.

If you know people IRL that believe lgbt people shouldn’t exist, I guess I feel bad for you and who you associate with.

Did you just spin this into a covert ad hominem? Nice job, but I don’t “associate” with every person whose views I hear espoused IRL.

I don’t know anyone at all like that, not even close to that.

Ok? But why assume that every community and society is exactly like yours? From your other comments I notice you’re from Canada, I hope you’re aware your political culture isn’t typical for the rest of the world, not even for the entire “west”.

I don’t feel the need to defend the most extreme examples of dumb things you’ve read online that someone else posted.

Right, so you didn’t have to claim such people and such extreme positions literally don’t exist - with caps lock, no less. I probably wouldn’t think of replying to you if you didn’t formulate it so categorically.

No one. NO ONE, think LGBT people shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

What I’ve heard IRL and what I’ve read online in less moderated spaces speaks to the contrary.

Ruining this year’s /r/place

Easy there, Robespierre. You won’t “ruin” r/place by creating some tiny logo that will be scrubbed away by the moderators in five minutes.

Ehh, flags dominated since the very first r/place.

But yes it’s pretty obvious each new edition is ever more astroturfed. The second one had lots of obvious organised bots designing perfect shapes and logos, and moderators’ meddling was noticed as well.

This will just turn the site into a massive shill fest full of people pandering

Ummm…

fck you descriptivist

You mean prescriptivist? 😅

(beep boom I’m a human)

Yes, that sounds very much like the other descriptions of the issue that I’ve come across.

while artists get very little payout from it

This! I’ve seen people claim they like Spotify because it’s legal and you support the artist that way, but the actual money they get from each song-listening is comically miniscule compared to the profit from the traditional mediums (vinyl/CD).

Some stuff is too obscure to be on Youtube, and IIRC the bitrate there is only 192kbps. It’s acceptable as far as I care, but I would still look for better rips if available.

Honestly going for the ‘largest’ instance is kind of dumb. Smaller, faster instances provide a much better experience. Bigger is not better in the fediverse.

Ok, but how is a new user supposed to know that?