Who mentioned piracy?

I get the files from bandcamp and quobuz. Unlike movies, you can still legally buy music, and get actual files.

Are they going to switch to a reward system that doesn’t allow botfarms to steal money from legitimate artists?

No?

That would reduces apparent user volume?

Oh noo…

I’m happy it works for you. In my case it simply wasn’t long-term stable, as such I’d never return to it, or recommend it.

Also, giving manjaro a hard time is the style at this time.

Manjaro, twice?

Surely no-one is that foolish?

That is such a chad move.

It’s going to sell no matter what the price. But knowing that, they set the price low, trusting they’ll still make a profit on volume.

If MS, EA, UBI, or any other publisher were in control, they’d set the price high, no matter how big the actual game was, knowing they’d make even more because of the hype train around the game.

NAS drives matter. Even without disk activity, 24/7 means they’ll do a LOT more spinning than other use cases.

You don’t run a torrent server on the NAS? Generally you wanna be doing the actual torrenting on something with uptime and storage.

Then to manage the torrents you either use a webui or app.

Are you just using a desktop client?

Good

The increase is recent, and still rising.

That’s not really my point.

You can’t cancel out bad things with good things.

That China averages out to stats that look OK, doesn’t make the stuff happening in HK or Xinjiang go away.

If you cut up the population groups into multiple population sized chunks with the compared countries, they each will still have a better number.

Not necessarily. If you average everything, that hides any outliers.

The bigger the sample size for your stats, the less it tells you. You could have an entire country’s worth of people in China, living in conditions that lead to horrible stats, and have that essentially disappear in the stats of the whole country.

You should break stats down into smaller chunks. But not just arbitrarily. Do it by province, city, district. That’s how you find the problem areas. The bigger the area you measure, the less the stats tell you about the individual citizens.

Every 100 000.

This is formatted to imply percentage, but for that the decimal points on these should be moved three digits over.

That 16.6 is 0.0166%.

Well yeah.

You’re not going to see a significant suicide rate, if the people who might kill themselves, are killed by something else first. Mostly looking at NK.

As for China, their population is so large that almost any bad stat looks small. Zoom in on someplace like Hong Kong, and the stats go right back to concerning.

That’s unfortunately not how words work.

Get into etymology and you’d be surprised at the number of words whose current meanings are complete 180s from their historical definitions.

You can’t just look at a word a decide what it means. Very few people use the word feminist to intend what you are claiming it means.

Suggesting they secretly intend your interpretation is mad, and claiming everyone except you is using the word wrong just means youre the one who has its definition wrong.

Unlikely. 5 is just all of OpenAIs previous models in a trenchcoat.

Taking a closer look, this is just nextcloud+onlyoffice?

How long before these kernel level rootkits start identifying each other as cheats, making being a fan of more than one game a bannable offense?

Was the statue at least US made?

You literally do, though. You just said you do.

No I don’t and no I didn’t. I don’t get downvotes and reports and go “yesss, views and engagement”. Each time I have, I’ve reconsidered my posts in an effort to not have that happen again.

Your apparent assumption that I don’t care whether content is seen by people who want to see it, is entirely on you. I do care.

But the only way to ensure no-one who doesn’t want to see it, sees it, is not to post. So yeah, I’m ok with some minority of people being put off.

Okay, but then can you stop trying to use people talking about communities which include the ones you don’t want to engage with as a way to dismiss their claims as blown out of proportion?

Do you have an example beyond the one I made it clear I’m aware of? I block these too. They’re not popping up every day, which was your point.

I have the courtesy to marking my NSFW as NSFW

Did you miss the part where I said I do the same? I’m simply do not agree that there is any level of sense in filing the entire ecategory of anime content on lemmy, under nsfw. That is completely insane. It’s an art medium, not a pornhub genre.

beyond that I think the culture of ridiculously exploitative depictions of women in anime being defended as “not technically porn” is the root of some incredibly toxic aspects of modern culture, which is a completely separate issue I admit

I’m not sure where to even begin unpacking the prejudice towards anime-fans here. Sure there are issues, but come on. This isn’t argument. The only reason to include this thought is to reveal how little you think of me because of something I like.

it’s just bizarre how hostile people are to being asked to use the one tool we have to separate content.

Because it doesn’t work. The NSFW toggle is used to tag porn, spoilers, nsfl, and many other things, yet at the same time a ton of people use and expect it to work the way “not safe for work” implies. It’s a mess. We need arbitrary tagging.

In the meantime using it more than necessary DOES slow down the already glacial growth of federated social media. That’s a fact, not an opinion. Suggesting it should be applied to an entire fucking fandom is not far off wishing that that the entire fandom not be allowed on the fediverse. And no, “it works fine for porn” is not a counter-argument. People looking for porn aren’t going to be avoiding the nsfw tag. They’ll head straight for it. Would you like to guess what they do if they find one of my communities instead of actual porn? They downvote.

also you’re trying to conflate adult-targeted content with a long and entrenched history of sexism with music preferences, and I know you know that’s a false equivalency

What long entrenched history of sexism? Weeb=sexist now? It seems to me you genuinely hate us. As a whole and individually. You want me hidden more than necessary because apparently the things I’m into make me sexist or worse. And/or my sharing the things I’m into, spreads this sexism, and worse.

Seriously, are you actually claiming that having to view a couple anime girls before blocking the relevant communities, for which a convenient list is provided, is so dangerous and corrupting that it warrants the “warning label” that is nsfw being applied to every single related post?

Engagement is any interaction, including viewing, from a user.

I don’t maximize for that. The only “engagement” I actively look for is the positive kind. You think I wouldn’t start marking things nsfw if it got a ton downvotes when I didn’t?

Currently, the reality is the other way around. Pointlessly tagged posts receive significantly less votes, because people looking for porn don’t vote, and people browsing normally, are less likely to check a post tagged nsfw.

Why is Thighdeology marked nsfw on reddit, yet still a hugely popular subreddit, but somehow that would be a deathknell for it to be the same on lemmy?

Critical mass. Tons of things are a death-knell to fediverse activity simply because it is tiny. Reddit can support a shitload of duplicate communities any one of which outweighs the single equivalent fediverse community by orders of magnitude.

Your list includes none of the many AI-specific anime art communities that are out there, I think you need to be a bit more proactive in your browsing.

I actively refuse to engage with AI content. There are active communities besides [email protected] that aren’t on porn instances?

Asking people to specify every word they don’t want to be exposed to is absurd, when there’s already one single and very easy to append word - NSFW - that you are ardently rejecting on the basis that it would damage your interactions.

Finding a common word used in content you don’t like is no harder that blocking. The feature becoming generally available would allow us to implement arbitrary tags. Why does this suggestion offend you? It’s a genuine win-win solution.

if you don’t want sexualized (but arguably non-explicit) images of anime girls in your feed, you’d have to go through and view a bunch of them before you can block it. Surely you can see how that’s… pretty ridiculous? Potentially very demeaning?

That’s true for any category of content. Are you saying anime girls are somehow inherently bad or damaging to users, as compared to for example sports content?

I blocked music content from my feed this way. Should I feel demeaned for having been made to see things other people enjoy, but I don’t care for?

don’t want to see that content as worth less than the people who do

Why are people who want to see the content worth less than the ones who don’t? Anyone can block content. No-one is likely to find content they don’t even know is there.

why is engagement more important to you than curating an appreciative audience

What is the difference between engagement and an appreciative audience? I aim to minimize the number of people I offend, while maximizing the people I reach. What’s wrong with that? What more can I do?

The only certain way to offend no-one, even if I marked every single post nsfw, is to stop posting entirely.

given how many new highly specific “anime moe tiddy thigh-gap colored hair” communities crop up daily

I keep seeing this argument. What new communities? With a couple exceptions, I run them! I haven’t made a new one in over a year, and I’ve only recently had to add half a dozen new entries to my list.

even just bringing out a different tag that isn’t blocked by default (which god, we really need even if just for spoilers) is a perfectly valid request.

Several clients offer word filtering. Asking for the feature in lemmy itself is fine, and something I fully support.