SnotFlickerman

Ghost is a lot like substack, but instead of, say, someone like Ken Klippenstein owning their own domain name and redirecting it to substack content, Ken Klippenstein could have his own domain and host his own substack-like-Ghost on that domain. Because it's federated, it could directly interact with other Ghost instances potentially as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, and so forth.

(I think it's a little silly that one of their example images shows it federating with Bluesky when Bluesky has its own proprietary protocol.)

It's because like all the rest of the federated web, it uses ActivityPub, and thus can interface with other services using ActivityPub. The instance and usernaming scheme works very similarly as here on Lemmy, actually, based on their documentation.

I do think it's a little sad that it's only available to people on the Pro tier, which means you have to pay for access to this feature currently through paying for hosting directly from Ghost themselves. While Ghost does need a pathway to self-sufficiency, hopefully this will be removed in the future, because it is a bit antithetical to actually hosting your own instance, by forcing you to use their hosting services.

I'm fairly sure it's not legal to create cartoons of children having sex with adults in the USA, so why should it be any different for humans who are mentally children?

I'm going to take your comment at face value and go with the charitable interpretation that you have sincere beliefs and are sharing them, but I'm also going to explain why doing so is difficult for me and hopefully addressing your points.

It’s not illegal to create digital art (even the disgusting kind) which depicts fictitious grown adults doing grown adult things.

True, but someone with a developmental disability in which they mentally remain very much a child for their whole life is clearly a different thing. I am fairly sure that in the US at least, creating digital art of children being involved in sexual situations is illegal, and as such, I believe by extension that since a developmentally disabled person cannot be considered a "grown adult" that arguably the same should be true for them. (This obviously cannot address the AI-generated amputees, who are "grown adults.")

I would argue that if any such subclass of degenerate exists they already exist.

And I would argue otherwise. There are many, many ideas that I was exposed to throughout my life that had never entered my mental lexicon until the idea was presented to me. Nobody can know everything, and so I don't actually think this is a chicken and egg problem at all. When someone previously has no idea such a thing even exits, and then is presented with such an idea, definitively, one of those things came first.

Secondly, the number of people I have met who genuinely have some pretty fucked up views by ingesting way too much "loli" anime/hentai is way too damn high. I have a very hard time believing that they would have such deeply held views if they didn't have access to such materials.

We have a constitutionally protected right in this country to freedom of expression and that right cannot be infringed simply because you believe that it could lead to more people being taken advantage of

Firstly, not everyone lives in the USA. Secondly, that "constitutionally protected right" has literally been hijacked by "free speech warriors" to infiltrate our government with explicit intent to control speech. That's literally happening right now. Elon Musk is a particularly egregious example of someone deeply hypocritical about this subject, who claims he is a "free speech extremist" and claims that he would never ban any type of speech on his social media... yet does exactly that, literally constantly. I don't feel the need to show as much here because it's well documented elsewhere. He also is literally one of the people infiltrating our government and using keyword filters to delete US history from government websites, so extremely that we lost evidence of the Enola Gay and the Navajo Code Talkers. So while in charge of Xitter, it can be argued he isn't an arm of the government and not restricting free speech on his own website (it can still be argued that his stances don't match his actions) in his position at DOGE, he is literally an arm of the government screeching about "free speech" while simultaneously banning ideas he doesn't like... indiscriminately by keyword, no less.

Once again in regards to not everyone living in the USA, Europe has many different countries which have very strict speech laws, and none of those countries are facing the same loss of human rights and access to historical information that the US is under a so-called free speech supporting government administration. Germany has long has strict rules against Nazi imagery and Nazi speech since the end of World War II and I would not consider Germany to be slipping into fascism because of it. It's arguably something that has held the tide of fascism at bay by refusing to let people try to rewrite history. Musk, for example, regularly uses his free speech to do in regards to World War II, like claiming that Hitler didn't kill anybody, he only ordered others to kill people, and so it's really the evil bureaucrats who followed his orders who were at fault. The man who gave the orders and the bureaucrats are all at fault, in reality, is Musk's argument. Free speech advocates often hide behind it to split hairs and attempt to repaint history in vile ways and I don't personally think having laws that prevent things like, say, holocaust denial, are bad in and of themselves.

How long before the extreme right use that precedent to start prosecuting individuals for other thought crimes?

The extreme right are happily using free speech as a shield to do that literally right now and we are literally in a constitutional crisis because of it. Wake up. Your precious constitution is being abused by so-called free speech activists to limit speech and target the vulnerable, under the guise of "you can't tell us our opinions are wrong." As such, I have a very hard time taking this kind of position at face value because so so so many people hide behind "free speech" as a way to push the most heinous ideas... and it works.

I actually think completely unfettered free speech may be more dangerous than not, but you're welcome to disagree.

EDITS: fixing mistakes, tightening up, removing run-on sentences.

It's not illegal to take advantage of amputees, but it's definitely illegal to groom and have sex with the mentally disabled, who are classified similarly to children.

It's promoting the fetishization of already deeply marginalized and possibly easily exploited people due to their genetics.

This is going to create a subclass of gooners who want to groom and exploit the mentally handicapped in real life which is definitely illegal.

Exploitation machines go BBBRRRRRRRRRRRR

I will say that I am genuinely glad to hear your business is giving you breaks instead of breaking your backs.

Your labor before they had LLMs helped pay for the LLMs. If you're 3x more efficient and not also getting 3x more time off for the labor you put in previously for your bosses to afford the LLMs you got ripped off my dude.

If you're working the same amount and not getting more time to cool your heels, maybe, just maybe, your own labor was exploited and used against you. Hyping how much harder you can work just makes you sound like a bitch.

Real "tread on me harder, daddy!" vibes all throughout this thread. Meanwhile your CEO is buying another yacht.

Absolutely. It's maddening that I've had to go from "maybe we should make society better somewhat" in my twenties to "if we're gonna do capitalism, can we do it how it actually works instead of doing it stupid?" in my forties.

If you can't see how the two are inextricably tied together, I don't know what to tell you.

This reeks of "keep politics out of our video games" kind of shit. They're not actually separate issues.

It's not hard to comprehend. It's that we literally have jackasses like Sam Altman arguing that if they can't commit copyright violations at an industrial scale and pace that their business model falls apart. Yet, we're still nailing regular people for piracy on an individual scale. As always individuals pay the price and are treated like criminals, but as long as you commit crime big enough and fast enough on an industrial scale, we shake our heads, go "wow" and treat you like a fucking hero.

If the benefits of this technology were evenly distributed the argument might have a leg to stand on, but it is never evenly distributed. It is always used as a way to pay professionals less for work that is "just okay."

When a business buys the tools to use generative AI and they shitcan employees to afford it they have effectively used those employees labor against them to replace them with something lesser. Their labor was exploited to replace them. The people who actually deserve the bonus of generative AI are losing or being expected to be ten times more productive instead of being allowed to cool their heels because they worked hard enough to have this doohickey work for them. No, it's always "line must go up, rich must get richer, fuck the laborers."

I'll stop being an ass about it when people stop burning employees out who already work hard or straight up fire them and replace them with this bullshit when their labor is what allowed the business to afford this bullshit to begin with. No manager or CEO can do all this labor on their own, but they get the fruits of all the labor their employees do as though they did do it all on their own, and it is fucked up.

I don't have a problem with technology that makes our lives easier. I don't have a problem with copyright violations (copyright as it exists is broken. It still needs to exist, just not in its current form).

What I have a problem with is businesses using this as an excuse to work their employees like slaves or replacing the employees that allowed them to afford these tools with these tools.

When everyone who worked hard to afford this stuff gets a paid vacation for helping to afford the tools and then comes back to an easier workload because the tools help that much, I'll stop being a fucking ass about it.

Like I said elsewhere, the bottom line is business owners want a slave that doesn't need things like sleep, food, emotional support, and never pushes back against being abused. I'm tired of people pretending like it's not what businesses want. I'm tired of people pretending this does anything except make already overworked employees bust even more ass.

I mean it's pretty clear they're desperate to cut human workers out of the picture so they don't have to pay employees that need things like emotional support, food, and sleep.

They want a workslave that never demands better conditions, that's it. That's the play. Period.