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[–] zkxs 1 points 2 years ago

If I had to guess I'd venture that this will be in beta for at least a couple of weeks because there's a lot of problems reported with it on the canny presently.

[–] zkxs 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm on lemmy.sdf.org and I currently see 18 upvotes, 0 downvotes on bdonvr's comment.

[–] zkxs 2 points 2 years ago

Hmm, I see that same post with zero downvotes presently and I'm on neither beehaw nor lemmy.world. I suspect that downvoting beehaw from a remote instance might be local to that specific instance, but I'm not certain.

[–] zkxs 2 points 2 years ago

This is solid proof that SDF is partnered with Smart Pipe Inc

[–] zkxs 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Wow, this is just what I've been looking for without even realizing it. A lot of my friends who are newer to the world of programming are very excited by this new wave of generative AI, particularly ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Conversely, I personally have a lot of misgivings about AI programming sort of half-formed in my mind. I've been programming for a while now (although I'm sure relative to all the SDF veterans I'm still pretty new to the game) and I can't bring myself to believe that prodding ChatGPT into a reasonable output is more efficient than just writing the code yourself... and then I start to worry that perhaps I'm biased. As they say, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".

Anyways, your headline alone is a better argument against the merits of AI programming than anything I was able to come up with, so going into it I knew the post would be a good read. And I wasn't disappointed: you've provided me with a much better framework to discuss generative AI with folks moving forward. Thanks for writing this!

[–] zkxs 2 points 2 years ago

Ultimately, you can do whatever you want. You're allowed to have more than one France discussion board on the internet. And with lemmy.ml being completely overloaded right now, maybe we want more than one discussion board.

[–] zkxs 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good luck spinning up a community, Tigwyk. I quite enjoyed /r/vrchat, so I'm happy to see someone trying to get something similar going over here in Lemmy.

[–] zkxs 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no total karma for a user yet, yes. So the perverse incentive to make number go up at all costs isn't quite as wild as it is in Reddit.

As I wander around Lemmy more I'm also noticing that there's a lot of opportunity for instances to have their own subcultures, which goes against the "It doesn't matter which Lemmy instance you use" advice I've seen in a couple places. It definitely seems prudent to choose an instance that has an admin team and/or a theme you like, because instance-local content is going to be the easiest to find. The instance I chose is decently small and chill, but I've seen some other instances with a big focus on memes. To each their own!

[–] zkxs 1 points 2 years ago

Probably, as I'm on another instance.

[–] zkxs 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

oop! https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/karabin@karab.in is in SDF Lemmy now and it pulled the thumbnail over, but it looks like it's still syncing? That or we can't actually sync kbin content.

[–] zkxs 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm also eyeballing Tildes as a Reddit alternative, and their dev has an interesting approach to increasing signal-to-noise ratio. They don't have downvotes, but they have labels that affect how comments are sorted, with the joke and noise labels moving comments down in the sort by a pretty significant amount.

[–] zkxs 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hmm, if that was the case I'd expect one of these other kbin instances to work. I'm trying [!karabin@karab.in](/c/karabin@karab.in) (kbin link) with no success.

 
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