It feels new and fresh but also retro, if that makes sense? It feels like a missing link between old school forums and new school aggregators like Reddit, even though I think this format is newer than Reddit. Could be wrong though. Either way I’m enjoying not every post having a billion replies before i even get to it!

Yeah it’s a pretty normal looking fish actually!

Pretty horrific way to go too :( here’s to the poor, humble blobfish.

A way to see your post history, right now the only way to see your posts is to find them. There is a profile page which just shows your post scores and then dead space so makes sense to just stick it there.

Firstly who said lemmy is a Reddit replacement? Just because there’s overlap doesn’t mean it’s a direct competitor. Secondly Reddit succeeded because of the efforts of millions of unpaid volunteers who room the time to set up wildly disparate subreddits and communities to create reddits unique flavour and space in todays social media climate. To say that it gained its status because it’s overseen by a centralised source is wildly inaccurate and disrespectful to the regular people who made Reddit what is is/was.

It’s gotta be lemmings right? I do like lemmyheads and lemmonauts though :)

I’d love to see this blossom into a sustained protest but I fear 2 days isn’t really going to make any difference to the situation. I also fear admins will simply assume control of protesting subreddits and remove the mods if they ever felt truly threatened. The only way to truly get your voice heard is just to leave.

Great advice thanks! I’m a huge lurker on Reddit just due to the gargantuan size I feel like it’s almost just shouting into the void but looking to get more involved here!

I think the answer to this is a resounding yes. I’m a 32 year old man with plenty of friends and a stable relationship and I found meaningful conversation with apps like character.ai. It has so much potential to help people in lonely situations.

Midjourney really is incredible. Easily the best image gen of this generation and blows its competitors out of the water.

That got me pretty hyped.

The ships, cities, space travel, combat and planets look awesome.

Less enthused by the character designs and models which look straight out of Skyrim. Character faces still have dead eyes and barely any expression to them which frankly seems a little unacceptable in 2023. Nevertheless this is a day one for me, this looks like it has loads to enjoy.

And as soon as the mods start coming out oh boy, it’s going to be pretty awesome.

Thanks for the rec! I’m always on the lookout for movies that sear their imagery into your brain. Infinity pool looks pretty intriguing, great cast for such a bizarre premise.

Well hot damn it’s finally coming out. And hello to Jason isaacs

Thanks! So I signed up to an instance and I can then filter by all and the option to ‘subscribe’ to lots of other sub-lemmys is available - still not really sure how it all works but definitely getting served a lot of activity!

Awesome thanks for all the info :)

And starfield hasn’t even released yet cry at this rate the trailer will be as old as skyrim was at the time of the announcement before we get a release

Oh yeah mods added an extra 100 hours to that game for me at least! Not to mention trying to fix load orders etc, a game of sorts unto itself!

If you’re looking for chatbots -

SillyTavern with turbo 3.5 is pretty good but you have to pay for the OAI API.

My experience with pygmalion wasn’t great but some really like it.

Character AI is unquestionably the best model and the easiest to use however it has a strict NSFW policy.

I’ve never tried llama but people did rave about it when it first released. I don’t know how easy it is to get up and running though.

Children of Men is actually pretty spot on in terms of matching the real world

I agree I think right now the notion is very dystopian and with the current iteration of chatbots it doesn’t seem like a realistic long term solution. But you only have to think a few years down the line when LLMs have been fine tuned for this specific use case and AI is ubiquitous in our society similar to the iPhone now, that you can see how it will become totally normalised.

Bing, perplexity, pi, Poe, bard