It doesn't matter, it's a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.

(i.e. non beehaw members cannot post on beehaw, but beehaw members can go interact on other instances). But as far as I understand that’s not how it works.

It depends, you believe that's not how it works because you're thinking of both sides defederating each other, but defederation is one-side.

For example, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world but lemmy.world didn't defederate from beehaw, so lemmy.world people cannot participate on beehaw but beehaw can participate on lemmy.world.

It's actually a bit more complicated than that, since lemmy.world people can still participate in beehaw discussions but only lemmy.world people would see those comment, I think also other instances that are not defederated can but I'm not sure about this.

Exactly, that's the problem.

human artists are worried they will be replaced

The problem is plagiarism, easy to control when humans do it, not so much when AIs are involved, that's why we need regulations.

As for copyright infringement, what exactly is being violated here?

Intellectual property of the original art creators? OP says "unlicensed", if you take any piece of art someone else created, and you use it to make your own stuff without their authorization, you're committing a crime.

Rather, it highlights that people need to adapt and evolve.

And risk being sued? Valve is right in being wary of this, especially since there's no real regulation about it.

Let's have regulations first, then we can tell people to adapt.

That's anecdotal experience, I'm 50+ and I got 19/20, I 100% identified all fakes and marked fake one of the real ones, so I'm on the skeptical side of things.

I don't think beehaw doesn't fit the fediverse, I do believe it doesn't fit every user.

As I understand it, they want to be a safe place for a very specific audience, that is, people afraid to be harassed for who they are, that could also include people with extreme social anxiety, that's why it's so heavily policed and they defederate from a lot of other instances.

It's like having a heavily moderated subreddit, you wouldn't say it doesn't fit reddit just because they don't accept contribution from everyone.

The purpose of the fediverse is to have things spread out so one or few nodes dying doesn't affect the entire system, it's also about avoiding corporate control, the same principles on which the internet was founded.

I don't think it means having to trust everyone or accepting everyone into your local group.

I agree, my point is that as long as the masses stay there, reddit will appear fine, garbage to us obviously but I think we are a minority of the reddit userbase.

I use Firexox and I found it in its addon repository, just search the name.

Many subs reopened but they're still protesting in very creative ways.

User traffic back to normal means people are now posting as much as before, it doesn't mean reddit itself is back to normal, unless you consider spamming Oliver pictures everywhere, literal steam on r/steam. all users "promoted" to mods, NSFW content where it shouldn't be, etc, as being "normal".

I'd be much more interested in knowing how all this is affecting ad revenues and investors opinions, but it seems this kind of info is really hard to find.

Are advertisers backing off for example, realizing that porn could pop up unexpectedly in subs they sell their ads in? Are investors realizing reddit is a very risky business, not only because users can protest any time, but also because they showed they can literally crash the entire platform?

Another dip in traffic will occur when apps stop working July 1st, after that I believe things will go slowly back to normal, "real" normal this time.

Many users are already migrating to alternatives, but I believe it will take quite a long time before the masses realize reddit is a sinking ship.

That’s amazing! Thank you for what you’re doing <3

It's very possible it was the admins banning you, not the mods (admins are reddit employees for those who don't know, mods aren't).

There have been other reports of people being banned by admins for "contributing" to the protest with NSFW content, they're desperate, they're trying to keep the protest under check by any means.

Mods should quit moderating altogether IMO, more than 20 thousands participated in the protest, there's no way they could replace them all in a reasonable time-frame, it would be a much better chaos than the blackout.