Overall, I’d say that most of the downvotes are people disagreeing with the article’s core criticism of Mozilla’s AI language translation using scraped content; then people see the excessive crossposts and assume you’re a spammer and mass-downvote them.

Given that !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the second largest Lemmy community, it’s clear from the start that piracy-bashing articles are going to have mixed reception at the best of times. In addition, the article places an undue emphasis on Mozilla’s practices rather than the industry as a whole.

Ultimately, the article should have been half as long and give readers a clear solution at the end, such as instead using a Firefox fork to make opt-out the default. While not likely to be as effective as an AI trained with non-permissive license content, such an explanation at the end could also have recommend an open source translation AI extension trained solely with permissive license content.

In the future, perhaps try posting your article once in the most popular relevant community, and if people respond well, then crosspost it a maximum of two or three times (3-4 posts total). More than that and people will think you’re spamming.

Lemmy does need to get better about being welcoming to newcomers, so apologies for the rough start; if you have any questions, feel free to send me a message. 👍

Hopefully after kicking out the 30 Hungary-equivalent states that would obstruct any and all progressive policies.

Be more selective with your crossposting in the future or people will downvote you for spamming.

The Threadiverse may have too many tankies and not enough active communities, but with Reddit becoming greedier and greedier by the day, it’s the only viable alternative.

Blocking .ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad solves a lot of the tankie problem, but it could certainly still use more people to support non-news or politics communities.

5 km to 20 km

Quadruples.

Important to note that he’s unfortunately still convicted under the national security law for 20 years.

The Bay of Piglets?

It would arguably be better to link to a real source rather than Perplexity.

From the beginning, we’ve said the pace of AI and uncertainties in the field would require us to rapidly iterate and improve the policy

Allowing the US military to use AI for weapons and mass surveillance is not ‘improving the policy’.

Does Sharkey require the community name to be mentioned in the post body?

So they want to sacrifice ‘effectiveness’ in later years then?

If they were to stop funding genocide in Palestine I’m sure they’d find extra room in their budget.

Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to stem the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.

Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.

“Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.

A crisis entirely of his own design.

I wouldn’t call it a backslide—that implies policies actively getting worse—more of a slowdown.

Plus it’s a game-key card, so it’ll be worthless when Nintendo’s servers shut down.

Alternative to CBS.

The crash over the weekend had no connection to the shooting last March.

Press X to Doubt.

There’s websites with paywalls that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. In cases that it can, it sometimes just fetches the article contents from archive.today.

That doesn’t mean an alternative shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.

They have historically been against the Common Fisheries Policy.