> LAION-5B openly indexed copyrighted data that it had no business collecting.
This seems to be legal in many countries (from what I know, the UK, EU, Japan and Singapore) due to the TDM (Text and Data Mining) exception, especially for researchers.
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This seems to be legal in many countries (from what I know, the UK, EU, Japan and Singapore) due to the TDM (Text and Data Mining) exception, especially for researchers.
I feel like they should give Mastodon a try. It differs from person to person, but for me the Fediverse is a lot more personal, equitable and smaller due to the way federation currently works. That seems in line with what the author wants, no?
Related article: https://wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futuristic-mastodon-introd.... Feel free to submit.
Furthermore, the author says that they don’t want QTs due to the toxicity they generate. Mastodon fulfils that too.
Perhaps a "pick what topics you like, and here's a couple recommended, open servers" thing? Maybe that picker can even lead directly into the server's sign-up form.
Sometimes I use Wikipedia or Wiktionary to find generic terms.
That said... sometimes it doesn't work, and I have to cheat using DDG.
My server has a rule for CW on all politics. If someone from another server (eg a journalist server) posts politics without CW, I will silence the account so it doesn’t appear in public timelines, but people can still follow the person if they want to see the content. If a server is full of posts like that, the entire server will be silenced, but people can still see the content if they follow people from it explicitly.
That’s how I’m personally resolving cross-cultural moderation. Well, internet culture at least.
Alternatively, you can also set your settings to expand all CW by default, and then use the filter functionality to filter out posts with things you don’t want to see. I believe the filtering functionality sees the CW field as well.
My current opinion is yes. See Fedsearch and the whole controversy around it recently. Some people don’t like their data being scraped or studied without their consent, even if you could technically visit it.
I enable noindex by default on my Mastodon instance.
Doing a personal experience now where I don’t use Google or any other search engines that are crawler based. I heavily use links I get from other people, bookmarks, portals, “a webpage full of cool links”, and browsing history.
Am new admin for a friend-only instance; currently blocking seems to be done via user reports + checking in on the #Fediblock hashtag. It's all manual, and repeated admin work needs to be done per-instance, which is why the article says it's inefficient but a good trade-off (so you can choose the server you align with best).
> Some of these growing pains come from users expecting that Mastodon will work with the same ease as products funded by Big Tech companies, but the nature of a volunteer-driven network means Mastodon can’t respond to crises like they do.
> “People are trained not to be patient. We expect to pop in, sign up, and we’re onboarded,” says Robert Gehl, a professor of communication and media studies at York University in Canada, who has studied Mastodon. “This is a little bit more complicated. But in the long run, for people who are interested in a more community-oriented space, I think it is very much worth it.”
> Part of Mastodon’s appeal is in hosting smaller communities, where moderators have rules and can regulate hate speech better than on some larger platforms. But with larger servers overwhelmed, people are applying for and flooding smaller ones, reshaping the communities that have grown there. Still, Stone and fellow cofounder Kev Quirk say they are excited about the diversity of opinion and topics coming in the conversations.
> …
> Mastodon’s meltdown may be short-lived. But that depends largely on instance runners expanding their efforts to host more users, and on users having the patience to navigate the network. The model for decentralized social media isn’t really new—it’s more a return to the old internet. And for some, that’s a welcome change.
> “What’s happening now is causing people to rethink social media,” says Gehl. Mastodon “is kind of designed to adapt, because it’s comprised of all these different servers,” he says. “It just takes a little time to shake out.”
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to export data from GrabWallet.
Personally I have to quit Discord to keep myself from getting distracted, so it’s way worse when you have to wait so long just to reply to a notification.
I think O notation represents the upper bound, so a complexity of N can also be said as O(N^2) or O(N^3), but that isn't particularly useful.
In other words, if f(x)/g(x) < inf when x->inf, then f(x) = O(g(x)).
Then there's omega-notation (lower bound, f(x)/g(x) > 0) and theta-notation (both lower and upper bound, 0 < f(x)/g(x) < inf).