I totally agree with you, thanks for suggesting this change.

Let me start by saying that I am in favour of the rule. Going into topics-centered community and voicing against that topic is kind of stupid, and everybody should be able to feel safe in their own spaces. All my concerns (generality of the rule, downvote trolling and automating moderation) were already voiced by others and addressed one by one. Also, as a practical suggestion, maybe we can have sticky posts in each community where the rule will be applied? Not forever, but for a set period of time.

I waited longer to give my answer, as I am very skeptical about AI in general but in favour of many other instance topics, and I wanted to form my own opinion on the topic at hand before commenting. I am really happy at the level of the discussion here and how the feedback was received by OP. I didn’t agree with some comments on other posts leading to this one, but I am happy to see that the discussion was kept objective and on-point, so a huge thank to OP and everyone who participated for showing me how the instance governance and discussion works (I’m relatively new here).

In the end, while I don’t go specifically go searching for AI content and barely see it in my feed, I am happy that stuff like AI-horde exist, and I really think it’s a good way of doing things. And in general, the governance experiment here and the way this instance is managed is way more important for me than my own opinions on AI.

Had identical experience, went with immich and never looked back

Family or rally any retired person who doesn’t understand that you are working and trying to survive in this fucked-up word, and get upset when you can’t take days off whenever they please, trying to guilty-trapping you or just being condescending about you being busy.

As an academic, yes, please pirate stuff.

Fuck parasites publishers that make profit on our unpaid job and gatekeep knowledge.

A nice read about publishers profits: Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free or if someone prefer the newspaper format

I think they are capped to like 3 downloads per day