I’m for - whilst I’m aware lemmy votes are attainable via one mean or another, opting out sends a message that whilst yes, it is possible to attain voting information, it should not be considered normal and socially acceptable to do so.

so ?

To make it extra clear. I don’t want to be subjected to these kinds of regulations. They are an infringement upon my personal freedoms and my privacy.

I don’t want these regulations to exist. If they exist, I’d prefer they be unenforceable. If they try to enforce them, I’ll try to circumvent them.

The internet wants to be free.

In my humble opinion, the most important aspect here is that it shouldn’t be possible to copyright ai-generated works. They are trained on the collective body of human intellectual product, the entire public domain, if you will, and in turn whatever is produced should be public domain, and available to everyone.

Certainly an AI company may charge for usage/distribution and generation of content to fund their endeavours, but that is about the limit of it as I see.

Very nice to see the growth of folks here!

Gonna keep checking in to see what interesting applicants drop in :)

When power and tools are given to a central authority to dictate what communication, expression and thought is “prohibited”, for essentially any reason, it is only a matter of time before that is abused.

You can have moderated communities without every community having to cater every user. Personally, I think that’s part of the beauty of federation. Some comms & instances can be locked down and heavily moderated to create “safe spaces”, others can encourage open discussion with minimal moderation.

Not Canadian, but the Canadian terminology described above is common in other parliamentary democracies as well.

In Sweden, where I live, members of parliament (ledamöter) will be said to be part of government if they are a member of one of the governing parties (these parties will have ministers in the government/cabinet), a supporting party if they voted in favour of the government (these parties do not have ministers in government but generally vote in favour of government propositions) and opposition if they abstained or voted against (these parties usually vote against government propositions).

Generally, MPs not member of the ruling parties will not be called “members of government”, particularly members of the opposition.

I think the issue here is simply not being familiar with politics & governance outside the US.

I would recommend either launching through steam (add external program) and when you understand how that works switch over to umu-launcher.

Obviously they need to be either self contained or installed while running from your linux machine.

From what I’ve seen FlyingSquid tends to be quite fair when moderating, doesn’t abuse the mod tools and is quite respectful and civil outside of the mod role. On occasion I’ve had disagreements and civil arguments with squid, and not once has the hammer been used as a conversation-ending argument.

Jordan however…