That's not how modern AI image generation works. AI no longer just mix-and-matches various assets from a library. It's creating its own unique images based on what it knows about the shapes and colors of things its been trained on.
Chozo
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Yeah, one of them definitely had the fake, post-processed bokeh effect added to it that a lot of phones with "portrait mode" use. Which, to be completely fair, makes that technically an AI-generated image.
I was looking for artifacts of AI generation, and I found them, but I'm still wrong. I can't win.
Cool, thanks for verifying that!
Is Micro.Blog actually federated with ActivityPub? The site says it supports cross-posting to Mastodon, which sounds like it's more of a post mirroring service than an actually federated instance. I couldn't find much more clarification on their About page.
Instagram is still decently big among GenZ for still-photo content.
As the owner of a 2000+ user server, this setting is an absolute necessity because yes, disposable email accounts are plentiful and Discord still does a poor job of detecting them. Server raids still happen, and temporarily restricting access to non-verified accounts helps mitigate this.
However, Discord's phone number verification blocks most VoIP or burner numbers from being registered. It's one of the few things Discord does pretty well these days, IMO.
How often are you using Firefox on your TV?
If you're in line at Burger King, your life's already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.
explain to me why I should care what the designer thinks anyway
Because they're the ones who ultimately control the future of the AP protocol. How it behaves today may not be how it behaves tomorrow. If their intent was to create communities that are isolated islands on the internet, they would've just made a new phpBB. So understanding their design philosophy is going to be important when it comes to running a community on that protocol.
I could see it as being part of Meta's plan to make the Fediverse fracture itself to make it easier to manipulate.
Okay, but that's a disingenuous argument to be making. Yes, AP is designed with the options to block instances, but that's not the core function it's built around. That's a failsafe, not the selling feature that would make communities adopt it. Communities can already exist without federating with other platforms: by running their own, non-AP platform in the first place. The developers of AP didn't say "I want to make a protocol built around blocking connections".
Nobody buys a car for its brakes, but you still need to have them for safety purposes. Defederation is pumping said brakes. It's a necessary feature, but not the main point of the car.
I think it's "There's nothing he won't stoop to".