Exactly!!
Thank God, you get it.

This video (which was trending a while ago) explained it pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7GtDMTd3k

And to add to what you said, people have some huge misunderstandings about how Gen AI work. They think it somehow just copy pastes portions of the art it was trained on, and that’s it. That’s not the case AT ALL, it’s not even close to that.

AI models should be allowed to be trained on copy righted data. If they shouldn’t be allowed to do that, then humans shouldn’t be allowed to do it either. Why do we give such advice to upcoming writers and musicians and artists, to consume the kind of content that they want to create in the future? To read the kind of books that they want to write like? To listen to the kind of music that they want to create? To look at pieces of art that they want to create? Should humans ALSO be limited to only publuc domain content?? I really don’t think so.

Again, Gen AI models don’t just copy paste stuff from their training set of data. They understand what makes up that piece of data. Just like a human does.

Thankfully, reasoning models like Deepseek-R1 have started to show the average person how an AI actually reasons and thinks about things and that they don’t just spew stuff out of nowhere in the hopes that it makes some kind of sense, slapping pieces of their training data set together to write something that’s barely comprehensible. The “Think” tags in such models really helped clarify some huge misunderstandings that some people had. Although, many many people are still left who have a really messed up view of how AIs work, and they somehow speak with such confidence about these topics with no knowledge of the technical details. It drives me nuts.

Dude, I read everything that you wrote here. Every one of your replies. It’s so sad to see that no one, literally no one, has actually agreed with what you said here.

It’s scary how extreme left the whole community of Lemmy is. I’m not even a US citizen, and even if I were a US citizen, I wouldn’t be a conservative by any means. I wouldn’t be a full on extreme left winger eaither though. And it’s just really confusing how the left, the side that is supposed to be empathic and understanding, scientific and logical and level headed, fails so hard to see how they come off to someone who hasn’t taken a side. The leftists think of themselves as logical and sane and moral, while they see the other side as pure evil, and pure insanity, stubbornness and stupidity. Not realizing that at least, at least some of the things that they do and say, are extremely immoral, stupid, and illogical.

The left usually claims moral superiority, but I really don’t think that’s how they’re coming off AT ALL to the average person or any neutral person at this point. They ALSO come off as immoral and evil. They ALSO come off as stupid and crazy.

Like here, just watch these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoYTPnxPMk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GHVJv8tSyo

It’s from a conservative tech blogger, talking about just how many tech projects and communities are explicitly banning, and straight up silencing ANY opinion that differs from them. You don’t have to be into tech at all to sympathize with the message of his videos.

In one of his videos he talks about how some people that threatened to literally kill him, were given a pass because they had otherwise the “Politically Correct” opinion, while people who even just questioned the choice of moderators, and how they were allowing these death threats to “Evil Right Wingers” to continue, were getting banned and silenced, having their messages being deleted.

It is horrifying, horrifying how the left who was once the party who would hear you out, listen to you, and empathize with you, has become the party that silences and advocates for extreme censorship of opinions. The party who has become so obsessed with creating echo chambers where everyone just agrees with each other and no mental exercise of any kind is needed. Echo chambers don’t improve the situation. They only serve to radicalize you, and make you mentally lazy and impatient with any opposing opinion.

The party who was once about listening to different opinions and ways of living, has become the party that advocates for echo chambers. I have witnessed so, so many conservatives being banned from communities, and somehow, I REALLY haven’t experienced the same phenomenon in right wing communities. They allow people who disagree with them to the community (eg. Trans people). Do they fight and argue with them? Yes. Do they call them names? Yes. But most of them actually don’t kick the person out of the community just because they disagree with them. The left though? Absolutely. Somehow, having the slightest difference of opinion gets you kicked out of left wing communities.

The party who was once about being inclusive, has become about being extremely exclusive.

It’s just so sad to see. I value free speech and agency above anything else. I don’t care how “stupid” or “evil” your voice is. You should be allowed to talk. We shouldn’t just grab stupid people by the throat and pull their vocal cords out with bare hands. Somehow though, something tells me that a dangerous portion of the Democratic party, now wants to do exactly that. If there was a button that you could push to just kill right wingers on the spot and erase them from the world, something tells me that a DANGEROUS portion of these empathic, understanding, logical, and level headed people, would instantly push the button. And that’s horrifying, and very, very sad and disappointing to see.

And before anyone replies with a “But what about the paradox of tolerance!!!”, let me say, the whole idea behind it is wrong. It essentially conveys that good people, should make bad people behave, otherwise bad people will hurt everyone and everything.

That’s good and all, but firstly, how are you a 100% sure that you are on the good side of absolutely EVERYTHING??? Do you have knowledge of the future? Do you even know absolutely everything about anything RIGHT NOW?? If not, then silencing the opposing opinion, rejecting the mental exercise of arguing with people who would otherwise end up agreeing with you, and just silencing them in the name of the good, is exactly something that a fascist would do. I don’t think any evil person thinks that they’re evil. Almost every evil real life person, when asked, would tell you that they did what they did for the right reasons and because they genuinely thought that it was something that had to be done.

Secondly, it goes completely against free speech. I don’t want anyone to silence bad, evil people, even if they are (somehow) objectively deemed as bad and evil. And no, claiming that free speech is allowed but that you’re not exempt from the consequences of what you said, is again, something that a dictator, a fascist would say.

Your dad

Europe being based again just like always

Thank you!

Oof! Yeah, you’re right. It would have been better if they included their email or their Reddit user handle instead

It should be fixed now. I’m new to Lemmy so let me know if it still has that issue! :p

America/Europe is not the whole world. Other countries do exist, each with different economical states.

Where I live, Iran, $5/h is a lot of money. The average job here pays $1/h, and that’s if it’s decent.

This. This right here. I live in Iran, and crypto currencies have been a life saver for many of us. Our local currency (IRR) is getting more worthless by the second. Many people have started immediately exchanging their earnings in IRR to something, anything else, including of course, cryptocurrencies.

I don’t think most people who live in first-world countries like America can see the use in cryptocurrencies as clearly as people who live in third-wirld countries, where you get paid a dollar an hour on average at local jobs, and that’s IF you have a decent job to begin with.

I have provided my services to people outside my country, and I prefer to do that, exactly because they are going to pay in dollar and not in IRR. And of course, they can’t do that through something like PayPal or UpWork, etc. because those services aren’t available to Iranians in the first place. Crypto currencies have saved and continue to save many, many people who live in these kinds of countries, because they provide a way for them to actually improve their lives by working, and not just hardly survive in whatever situation they are in and just stay alive for a bit longer. You can’t really change your life working 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, for $1 an hour. It’s just not feasible.

Again, I think it’s something that most people who already have ready access to these kinds of services, and who use these services without ever doing anything that makes those centralized services start questioning whether they should ban their account or not, won’t really get to appreciate. Want to use PayPal? Nope! You’re an Iranian, so fuck you. You can starve to death for all these kinds of services care. You might be born as the most gifted person on earth inside Iran, and yet, if services like PayPal were THE ONLY way to work non-local jobs, you would lose so so much of your life just trying to survive, instead of doing something that helps people around the world.

Cryptocurrencies, have quite literally, been a life saver for many, many people in my country. And no, they mostly weren’t scammers either. Some of them, sure, of course, but let’s remember that scamming isn’t something that only happens with cryptocurrencies. Scamming has been a thing way, waaay before cryptocurrencies were a thing.

It’s kind of like proprietary vs Free software. You won’t appreciate the Free, open source alternative until the proprietary one reeeally starts getting on your nerves, and changing in a way that directly affects you. This is the exact reason behind why people who advocate free software usage seem like insane people, because again, it’s not something that you appreciate, until what you’ve been using starts to show you why you should have cared about these kinds of things a long time ago.

You get to appreciate the alternative when the current “go-to” solution starts to show its problems. And regular fiat money, for the most part, works pretty well for most people right now, so there’s no reason to care about the alternatives at this point.

Hmm, weird that you couldn’t subscribe. Is it on pending? Or did it just refuse to do anything?

It might be a temporary instance problem (Lemmy.wtf in our case).

Thank you!

Yes, I hope I can come up with some mitigations for that. I’m a programmer so maybe until we have some more mods, I can create a bot (or use a preexisting bot?) to do some amount of moderation while I’m offline.

The hate is kind of understandable so I’m not mad! xD
If you’re not privacy/freedom focused, then you might only see the use of crypto currencies in scam, especially if the news around you confirms that for you 24/7

I hope not, and I’ll do my best to keep scammers away. The good thing about doing it on the clear-net and on Lemmy, is scammers are a lot more likely to leave traces of themselves that can be traced back to them, so if they’re smart, they’ll leave the sacmming stuff in the TOR network.

Anyways, that aside, I created this community as the post said, because of the restrictions that centralized services like UpWork, Fiverr, PayPal, LinkedIn, etc. impose on their users.

As an example, I have a few online friends who are artists and take commissions. All of them, without exception, have experiences with getting banned or limited because of taking commissions that included heavier/darker themes (suicide, self-harm, drug use, gore [scenes from a war for example], severe depression, etc.). They not only have gotten their accounts banned, but the funnier thing is, their account has been banned with all of their credits/money inside of it, that they had rightfully earned from their customers. Thousands of dollars of rightfully earned money, lost in an instant, just like that…
That is beyond scary and awful to me… It shouldn’t be acceptable at this point, and yet it is, because of the inhumane TOS that these services make you agree with before you get the chance to use them.

That is one of the very important reasons behind why I created this community. Freedom from the greasy hands of such corporations. If you know anything about GNU and FSF, to me, it’s no different than being dependent on proprietary software with very, very limiting and inhumane TOS. Users should be in control, not multimillion dollar corporations.

The second reason, is the restrictions that these services have for the kind of users that they accept into their platform in the first place.

PayPal and LinkedIn for example, require identification before you can sign up for their services, and in the sign up process, they instantly refuse to let you proceed any further, if they find out that you’re from certain countries that they don’t provide their services to. For example, if you live in countries that are included in the list of countries that are sanctioned by the US by the US trade laws.

Needless to say, if you somehow manage to sign up for their services, you will always run the risk of them finding out and seizing all of your income that you depend on for your life, and that’s IF they decide to stop there and don’t follow you further.

Because of these geographical restrictions, so many creative artists, so many smart developers, and so many hard working people that can all benefit the world in a better way, are forced to do something else that they have no passion for, settling for a job that sucks the soul out of them and stifles their creativity, until nothing is left. It’s tragic and inhumane to let this happen to so many bright people around the world who can offer their seevices to society and make it better. It’s an accepted level of racism apparently by many people, to not let the people who happen to be born in these countries by fate, reach their dreams, and instead to stifle their creativity and turn down their solutions, simply because they are from a different part of the world than what is acceptable.

I know that the crypto currency world doesn’t carry a good name, but as it is, it is the only way to solve these problems. As far as I know, it’s the only way to trade services in a decentralized way, that doesn’t give all of this power to these centralized, multi-million dollar corporations that only have money in mind, and not their users.

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There are services for that available on the web, such as FairTrade on dread that d/Jobs4Crypto mods recommend. I had experience with this one. Looking for similar ones on the web, there’s also FairDesk on clear-net, but I didn’t have experience with them. The mods on r/Jobs4Bitcoins offer escrow services themselves, which I hope to offer if my users are willing to trust me with their money. I would have more to lose in the long-term by betraying their trust and taking their money for my own, than to just be honest and offer a good escrow service for my users, so that the activity in the community can continue as intended :)

If that’s not convincing enough though, any 3rd party escrow service that both of the end-users agree on can be used. As long as the person or organization that offers the escrow service is trustable, it should be able to do the job.

Done! Check my new comment under this post

Done! Check my new comment under this post

Aaaand a new community was thus born!: !Cryptolancing@Lemmy.wtf

I can’t fucking agree more honestly. I already use LineageOS on my phones and not the stock ROMs that they come with, but even then, Google’s way of locking you in with their “open-source” Android kernel is very annoying. Some of the most popular Android apps won’t work because of their Safety-Net and Google Services dependencies. And let’s not even get started on the dozens of binary blobs in the firmware that you can’t get rid of if you want your phone to keep on working.

It’s all so shitty. I’d drop my android phone for a Linux one in an instant if there’s even a decent one out there that works reliably. It’s so sad to see that it’s just a niche yet for privacy obsessed people and that’s it. It definitely needs more attention and funding.

Of course! I’ll let you know. I submitted a request for it on Lemmy.wtf as of now. I’ll try different instances if that doesn’t work out, and I’ll link the final result here.

Gotchu. Thank you for letting me know! :)

I’ll go on to create one then. Since you said that you like the idea, it’s name is probably going to be “cryptolancing” since that would make it easier to find both for people searching for “crypto”, and for “freelancing”.

Keep a lookout if you’re interested