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  • I mean… What? That’s kind of exactly what’s happening in lemmy communities

    Indeed I can understand this one. I’m really liking Lemmy but discoverability is pretty bad, add the fact the ranking is shit and pretty useless in suggesting interesting content and you will understand his point.

    Reddit has both much more content and not only a better ranking system but also a functioning personalized algorithm, if you want to use it.

    To this day, all of the non mainstream Lemmy communities I’m following it’s because I’ve used to follow the subreddit and it migrated here.


  • But I think there’s a big difference here

    I tried to use mastodon but I feel that microblogging inherently require some centralization, it’s impossibile to find people to follow and the feed is always a mess with bunch of stuff that doesn’t interest me.

    On the contrary I’m using Lemmy since a while and it works much better for content discovery, communities act as a"human algorithm" the same way they work on Reddit and it help much with the federation approach.

    What I arrived to realize is that some form of social media are more adaptable to the fediverse.

    For example, I hardly see any decentralized version of TikTok



  • YT’s system that had messed up and not the legal system.

    Oh the legal system is very much messed up, YouTube tried to put a bandage in it. You have to consider that usually you would need a full personalized legal contract for each piece of copyrighted material you use. Content id tries to automate the process, but it’s not perfect.

    A 10-20% royalty should be more than enough to incentivise research while still preventing price-fixing and monopolies.

    Which is what happens with patents today. The company holding the patent rarely also physical produces the drug, they usually have “manufacturing agreements” expecially in geographic far markets; where they let a second company make the drug with the company holding the patent on it and they are free to sell it in exchange for a percentage of the label price.

    That’s also what happened with vaccines and many other medications, it’s like the standard procedure lol


  • Look at this.

    It’s just a single example, there are endless songs which are samples of samples of samples… Once in a while YouTube content id will have some problems as it’s not perfect. It doesn’t mean the system is fundamentally flawed. Like saying every car on the planet is cursed because once you got a flat tyre.

    Only the rich and powerful or those willing to go deeply into debt are able to benefit from all of that extra research.

    Pay attention because the alternative to patents is not a “free for all” approach , it’s industrial secrecy. As research is still very much expensive for entities to carry out.

    Set aside than, no, extra research benefits everyone in the society as new cures for diseases are discovered faster and medicine evolve organically. Patents were the compromise to ensure companies could monetize their research while sharing their knowledge, are there other possible equilibrium? Sure, but we still have to remember we live in the real world, you can’t have a cake and eat it


  • let people reuse each other’s melodies

    I think this is an interesting example, because it’s already like this. Songs reusing other sampled songs are released all the time, and it’s all perfectly legal. Only making a copy is illegal. No one can sue you if you create a character that resembles mickey mouse, but you can’t use mickey mouse.

    And pharmaceutical patents serves the same scope, they encourage the company to release publicly papers, data and synthesis methods so that other people can learn and research can move faster.

    And the whole point of this is exactly regulating AI like people, no one will come after you because you’ve read something and now you have an opinion about it, no body will get angry if you’ve saw an Instagram post and now you have some ideas for your art.

    Of course the distinction between likeness and copy is not that defined, but that’s part of the whole debacle




  • Democracy spreads the power out through as many people as possible in order to lessen the potential for abuse by any individual actor

    Well, that’s not our democracies work. We don’t let people vote every law by referendum, that would be spreading power as much as possible.

    In ancient Athens it was common, as was common for judiciary decision to be made by 3-4 hundreds people drawn at random. But that’s something almost universally considered stupid now, we have a judge, who we consider an “expert” in law.

    By your definition, we don’t live in a democracy, on the contrary, democracy is extinct on this planet