What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

(Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

  • Oka@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    I’ll add:

    • AI bad
    • Piracy ok
    • Political posts are more frequent (Bias towards political expression)
    • More tech enthusiasts
    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      “AI bad” overrides “Piracy ok”, though. I’ve seen threads in the main piracy community where the general consensus seemed to be that copyright should be used as a weapon against AI.

      • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        20 hours ago

        Just a guess. Because piracy advocacy isn’t about not paying, it’s about not supporting megacorporations and anti-artistic business models. It’s a form of protest, I suspect most advocates would buy media legally when it doesn’t feel enshittified.

        They would probably also support companies that used AI but did not fire workers as a result.

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          Because piracy advocacy here on the Fediverse is about that, yeah. You’re saying the same thing I am, that the Fediverse’s pro-piracy bias is “overridden” by its anti-AI bias.

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              16 hours ago

              Yes, exactly what I’m saying. People on the Fediverse hate AI more than they support piracy, because when there’s a situation that involves both enabling piracy and helping AI they will side with the anti-piracy side in order to hurt the AI side. The Fediverse has more of an anti-AI bias than it has a pro-piracy bias.

              • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                Hmm I still think we’re saying different things. Enabling piracy for consumers and rejecting it for big business come from the same beliefs. It’s not about piracy itself or hating AI more than liking piracy. It’s not about piracy at all but who is allowed to use it. It’s about content being controlled by the public, and not corporations. I think.

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                  It sounds to me like you’re just saying why your support for piracy is limited in this case. You’re saying “piracy’s okay, but not when those companies use it for those reasons.”

                  Having rules about who is “allowed” to copy stuff and for what reasons is, in a nutshell, copyright law.

                  • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    16 hours ago

                    Not sure I understand your argument, nor am I talking about myself personally, but folks I’ve seen on my instance who do. Actually I’m just a privacy and Flying Spaghetti Monster piracy advocate 😅

                    One who photographs a painting from a Walmart and prints it in their living room, and also boycotts a News outlet who underpays their employees is not more anti-news than pro-theft. They are both boycotts equally against capitalism.

                    I’m sure there are also many folks who pirate immorally, like from smaller artists, or because they’re broke. But pro-piracy usually means in the boycott sense.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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      • Piracy ok

      I’m not sure how true that is for the largest instance (lemmy.world) but apart from that it seems quite on point