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Need to call this bullshit by its name: Microsoft killing their competition. They had just released their own version of stable diffusion in bing a moment ago and now they ban the biggest competition from GitHub.

I don't believe they didn't know what they are doing. They definitely have statistics about repo usage and the guy suspending him definitely knew that it's one of the most popular repos out there.

Microsoft don't deserve the benefit of doubt here. This is a warning to anyone who competes with Microsoft in an open source project. Move elsewhere.

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> They had just released their own version of stable diffusion in bing

Did they? I thought that was chatgpt variant.

https://bing.com/create

Thanks, didn't know about that.

That sounds incredibly unlikely.

I know we all love a good M$ conspiracy theory but this one is far too silly.

They literally got nothing to lose and they can just go "oops, we saw X in the repo and banned by mistake".

There's just no way this is a mistake. I don't believe for a second their internal review systems don't have any safeguards against banning extremely popular repositories without manual oversight, because they must have these safeguards. Other open source repos probably get spurious reports commonly.

These systems always have popularity thresholds for manual oversight because as something gets popular, it gets false reports. It's just fact of life.

Any manual oversight would easily recognize what's going on and would never ban extremely popular repo for a random transgression of its creator in other repo. Not without consulting a manager.

A1111 did the following things:

- Made a mod removing all non-white characters in a video game.

- Put black people and artists who draw black people in a category/folder called "n".

- Is allegedly also anti-semitic but I don't think the "((()))" thing is proof of that.

I don't think there is anything Micro$ofty going on. Just a racist being banned.

They can ban the offending repo. They are either extremely incompetent or malicious, either way I'm totally avoiding GitHub from now on. Absolutely disgusting behavior.

> - Made a mod removing all non-white characters in a video game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15187...

“Edit 26-mar-2020: finally, the injustice has been corrected: all races are welcome! You can choose the range of skin colors you want in mod settings.”

> - Put black people and artists who draw black people in a category/folder called "n".

this doesn’t really mean anything.

> - Is allegedly also anti-semitic but I don't think the "((()))" thing is proof of that.

besides using () for weights what other proof do you have for your public accusation?

> Just a racist being banned.

love these kinds of conclusions drawn from conjectures.

I don't really see how that Steam link is supposed to be helping their case here... Yeah sure, you can change the settings on the mod called "Whites Only", and we are supposed to be like "oh, ok, I guess thats fine then"?

This was created in response to existing mods which had removed all white people

You can call it immature, I sure would, but still we can't have 'rules for thee'

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