Thought it relevant to this community and posted it to have a discussion on this topic. I am not the author of this blog nor do I endorse the authors views.
Before leaving an upvote or a downvote (a function that IMO should be reserved to posts/comments that are offtopic, made in bad faith or low quality), please first read the blog post.
TL;DR: Author of the blog is criticising Codeberg outright banning LLM and crypto projects. Author thinks this approach is not nuanced enough and introduces censorship to the platform. Author therefore decided to selfhost his projects that the author previously had migrated to Codeberg.
Hmmh. Yeah, I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who likes to talk in the comments. So I generally appreciate to know whether OP wants to discuss a topic, inform people, post the news or whatever. That changes how I react to a post.
Also appreciate some lead text in the body, so I don’t need to click on 200 links a day to find out what’s behind the url or (clickbaity) title…
But that’s usually not how it’s done here. A lot of people just post the link and that’s it. I guess in your instance it would have been helpful to disclose whether that’s your perspective on things… Or whether you want to draw attention to someone’s ignorant opinion… I suppose most of the downvotes are because people are confused (as always) and it’s a mixture of just reading the title and disliking the content… Though… Similar posts about: OpenAI has this and that weird stance usually get upvotes here. So I suppose if you want to draw attention to someone having weird opinions, you should be getting upvotes as well?! I just think if it’s backwards like this (the article fits fuck_ai because they’re wrong), you might want to add a few words to make it clear people aren’t supposed to sympathize with the text.
Thanks for the constructive feedback! I’ll add the context ASAP.
But I don’t want to tell people how to think. IMO people should form their own (educated) opinions. I know this community has a heavy bias and I respect that, but can’t I just post new opinions so we can have a discussion around that (and maybe even change our opinions based on the outcome of the discussion)?
In my experience not everyone is knowledgeable about everything and an open and respectful (as opposed to hostile) discussion is the way to inform new opinions. Am mistaken in thinking my approach should be tolerated in this community?
Awesome, thanks!
Considering “[…] thinking my approach should be tolerated […]”: I’m pretty sure this (AI) is one of the polarizing topics here. Most people will come with pre-formed opinions, and/or they’re quite trigger-happy with the up- and downvote buttons. Informing new opinions is rarely what happens with polarizing topics on the internet 😆.
It’s appreciated by some users, though!