We must take this opportunity to realise that just because one can do a thing, does not mean one should do a thing. -Federation President, 'Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country'

Ah, but you see then you would see the limited amount of content coming from the right individuals, not have new stuff pushed at you all the time, and you risk being (shock and gasp) disengaged and look at some other app or some other content before your content creators create new stuff...

Yeah, all the stupid "recommended" shit the algorithms added to my feeds eventually made it pretty easy to break the fb/insta scrolling habit. Fb was the place where I went to see what was up with people I knew and interact with them. Their comment setup is even worse than reddit for "anything you say is lost in the noise", so attempts at discussion were useless, though even if it was setup better, the quality of the comments themselves was like YouTube comment level.

Even more annoying, in addition to adding random shit to your feed, they also seemed to filter the list of friends they showed updates from to a small list that I have no idea how they even selected them. So I'd still end up missing life updates from some people if I didn't go to their profile.

I mean, I don't doubt it's way worse now with AI slop, but it was already shit before this.

deadname them. It's facebook.

Benn Jordan’s approach to finding AI music was interesting. But apparently the compression that causes the artifacts in ai gen music aren’t as easy to determine in imagery.

The real way to find out how malicious these generative ai companies are is how hard they try to evade filters.

Creative works are copyright by default.

Fuck me his quote got me torqued. If I create a thing, it's fucking mine. I can go further and register for a trademark, but the copyright is mine. If I so much as take a pic of a mushroom on my phone, that pic is copyrighted instantly and without question.

haven't gone through the trouble of registering copyrights with the government or with copyright policing services,"

This is country specific, of course. For example, in Australia the act of committing a work to media of any form is enough to register and assert copyright for that work.

So as an Australian resident I am quite within my rights to assert the following immediately, with the legal backing of the Commonwealth of Australia:

This post is copyright ©️ dgriffith. I grant the Fediverse and its users/instances permission to duplicate as necessary as part of the normal mechanisms of participation, all other rights are reserved.

Having gone through my own DMCA slog with a news site using my artwork without permission, having copyright without it being registered is basically useless. I consulted two different lawyers and both of them recommended the same thing, register every work I produce, which is just not feasible.

Took 2 years and multiple self submitted DMCAs before they finally removed my artwork. Lawyers basically told me I couldn't do shit unless I registered my art.

Yep. I pretty much use antisocial media exclusively these days. Smaller, more human oriented and operated, with no "algorithms" to drive perpetual engagement. It's like the internet of almost 30 years ago in all the best ways.

So continue to ignore it like I always have?

Done!

"we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas."