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I don’t like it, as I don’t like this technology and I don’t like the people behind it. On my personal website I have banned all AI scrapers I can identify in robots.txt, but I don’t think they care much.

I can’t be bothered adding a copyright signature in social media, but as far as I’m concerned everything I ever publish is CC BY-NC. AI does not give credit and it is commercial, so that’s a problem. And I don’t think the fact that something is online gives everyone the automatic right to do whatever the fuck they want with it.

Here’s OPs thread, from two days ago rather than June last year. But June last year sounds plausible, so that’s good enough for a language model.

If you believe God created this place, literally everything is proof of God. It’s hard to explain a good one, and particularly one that is both good and interventionalist, but the whole “God created it and left it to rot” idea one can kinda understand the appeal of. It’s hard to imagine how this all just popped out of nowhere.

Of course, it solves nothing, as you just shift the problem over to God. But that’s besides the point.

I think the religions that allow for multiple and often flawed gods seem easier to believe in, but if you’ve been taught to believe in some Yahweh spin-off I try not to judge to harshly.

This is a super interesting comment, thanks!

As for why Coca Cola made their Santa red, I guess the Scandinavian influence is also worth keeping in mind.

The Norwegian version of Santa is known as Julenissen - literally the Yule nisse - with the continental European stories of Saint Nicholas having been merged with our own traditional nisse (Scandie gnome) living in the barn (fjøsnisse). Nisses, like gnomes, traditionally wear red hats.

Where I celebrated Christmas on Tuesday, we were visited by a version of the fjøsnisse rather than coca cola santa. He told the kids they are coordinating with the Christmas nisse, as it gets busy on the north pole (there is, of course, only one Christmas nisse, but a bunch of fjøsnisser). But of course a knitted red hat was still in place. 🎅

As far as I know there’s no option to boost posts from Lemmy, it’s an exclusive little function for Mbin and the microblogs.

I quite like it, as it makes it easier for good comments to “escape” from here and into the microblogging platforms. Assuming of course you are followed by users over there. But it is not a function on Lemmy.

So I’m not sure what OP refers to, or how posts appear as boosted in the dadjokes community. But it is indeed possible for Mbin or Mastodon users (among others) to boost any content seen on there.

I think PeerTube is ideal if you don’t want to use YouTube. The first selling point is of course Fediverse integration; the second is that it’s peer to peer, so that hosting costs don’t increase much if many people are watching at the same time.

The hardest part is to find a suitable instance (assuming you won’t self host), but it should be doable.