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While I agree with you that art will be there for as long as humans exist (since it's something a lot of us like to do), access to other's art might be severely diminished, especially in atomized societies.

Let's be real, for a lot of people, internet is the source for most of their art enjoyment. As more and more of the internet is filled with soulless AI slop, it might be more and more difficult to find real art here.

I also don't anticipate that AI will fully replace art on the internet - if you look hard enough, you will always be able to find niche communities of people doing their thing. E.g. I am quite fond of art communities here on lemmy, which seem to be mostly AI-free for now (since there's no monetary incentive to posting here).

But I can see how someone who loves art and finds all their life's meaning in it can be concerned with all the slop filling up mainstream artsy social media like instagram/pinterest/music streaming/etc.

It's categorically worse for privacy than signal. The latter is at least e2e encrypted. Probably also worse than WhatsApp, they also claim to be e2e encrypted, but it's less certain because the apps are closed-source.

You can use it as long as you consider all conversations on there, including direct messages, as public and readable by any three letter agency out there. Telegram is not e2e encrypted, which means Telegram LLC can read all your messages and share them as they see fit.

Also remember that they have your phone number and IP address

In short, planning a night out with friends is probably fine, coordinating a protest is probably not.

BTW this is also the case for most network printers. You can just print to them by sending a pdf/postscript file with netcat. CUPS is rarely needed nowadays.

In my experience:

1. All printers are pain. This is a sad fact of computers.
2. If it detects&gets recognized in CUPS, you can usually fiddle with it and make it work eventually.
3. If it works on one distro, there will be some way to hack it enough for it to work on all distros.

F**k. You added two, so I have to censor one to keep the world balanced.

The dumbest lemmy take I've read all day (that said, the day has just begun)

The far left wants to exterminate a particular social group - capitalists - because it directly oppresses everyone else through violence. Depending on the flavor of leftism, extermination of a group doesn't have to mean extermination of individuals, rather it means the destruction of their social status and the redistribution of their wealth. The goal is self-defence: stop the literal physical violence through which the masses are kept poor & under control, through violence if necessary.

The far right wants to exterminate all minorities. And in that case it does literally mean hanging black people in trees and setting gay couples on fire, physical destruction of marginalized individuals. The goal is to install an religious ethnostate.

If you can't tell the two apart, you're literally the centrist from the OP meme

The point of ActivityPub is that you don't have to migrate your account to be part of any shiny new social media platform. You can just stick to lemmy and interact with piefed communities/posts/comments without even knowing about it, just like this post here (it was posted by a piefed user and you're viewing it on lemmy).

I'm afraid european carmakers are also catering to the overcompensating crowd.

Ban private cars in cities. It's the only sustainable solution.

KYS is an acronym used by trolls/edgelords on 4chan and some other forums, meaning "Kill YourSelf". Here it is used to mean "Know YourSelf", and the authors are probably oblivious to the more common meaning

Matrix/XMPP do not require a phone number, just FYI. Might be the perfect time to start advertising private alternatives.

Honestly, "shopping lists, calendars, the weather" can be (much better) done by an e-ink tablet stuck on the door of the fridge with a magnet. There could be other interesting info only the fridge itself knows (electricity consumption, temperatures in the fridge and freezer, humidity, etc) but then all that info could also be shared via a bluetooth API or something.