The US left wing has a lot of great ideas and some really really terrible ones that are completely out of the mainstream.

That’s probably specific enough, right?

Replacement is just one application. What about generating entire performances? Can’t do it yet, but the data will be there when they figure it out.

The data is still going to be there when there’s cost effective AI tech…

• Dump on tl;drs
• Subject your readers to a minimally-edited 4000 word rant

You get to pick one.

Malicious custom emoji contained scripts that sent session cookies to the attackers.

Nope sorry, Youtube gets punished for bad ad practices. You don’t get to pretend that the content creator is the victim of the ad-blocking user when YT controls the platform.

Americans who understand the first amendment will tell you that freedom of association is inseparable from freedom of expression. The government (plus its agents) is the only entity constrained by the First Amendment. Everyone else benefits from it, including certain instance owners who don’t want to associate with certain others.

Right but to your other point, the admins who don’t fork will send you spam.

Also, even if I don’t upgrade to v0.18, I have to live in a fediverse that have other instances that WILL, and they might pose a problem with increased spam.

A fork avoids this problem how?

I disagree, once your open source project “sprouts wings” you enter an unspoken power battle. If enough of the community disagrees with something the chance of a successful fork grows. Once a project is forked away, you no longer have any control at all.

Who’s writing the code for the fork? If you see them, can you ask them to just submit the PR that the devs said they’ll approve?

Despite what you’re implying, the devs have no duty to fix admin-reported problems using admin-dictated solutions.

They have already said they would accept a PR adding support for captchas. Someone will undoubtedly do this before long.

Until then, why the urgency? What is it that’s preventing you from keeping your instance on 0.17?

So basically we are sitting in a room.