Muchas gracias for giving folks a place to land when everything else blew up. I’m sorry to hear how things have been going offline and I hope you and the whole team have smooth sailing ahead.

From a content UI perspective I guess this is why I would lean in preference towards Lemmy. It’s pretty quick to figure out how to locate and browse similar content.

That said I will be up front about not having dived deeply into Sharkey to figure out all the potential that’s there to make it do things in a way I’d prefer. Though perhaps that’s a point against it as well, since it may take more work to get it functioning like that.

As much as the blog author drags this idea, if there is any sort of legal crackdown (whether through legislation, or legal precedent via lawsuit) on the usage of scraped non public domain data to train commercial models on, this is where the companies are going to turn to.

They’re going to buy up or strike deals with companies that have some sort of actionable rights over data that they’re legally able to license and/or sell. It’s the logical route and as long as the majority of consumers aren’t effected as far as content access goes, they’re not going to care. Likewise content creators will be stuck between a rock and a hard place trying to find replacement platforms/publishers/etc that are built around safeguarding content creators against such deals.

Depends on what you’re making. There’s nothing worse than under seasoned dishes. Freshly ground black pepper is a versatile ingredient that compliments many other flavors, but it’s hardly a requirement for everything. I keep two spice mills on the counter, one with black peppercorns, and the other with white, because there’s many things that can benefit from one or the other.

I appreciate the link. I tried seeing if anyone had forked it at some point but my lack of familiarity with navigating Github likely prevented me from locating anything.

As a user it sucks, but it’s not surprising.

Hopefully some other person/group will take it up/fork it/etc.

I think this would be a fair change and compromise.

Because logged in users can toggle both the NSFW Blur and the Auto Expand in their account settings it doesn’t seem as if it would significantly negatively effect current account holder users.

I suppose if there’s a userbase that utilizes the site without an account or without being logged in on a regular basis this could hamper their experience, but I guess that’s where the big question is. Would such a change effect the conversion of non-account holding users to account holding users on a positive, negative, or neutral basis?

I’m no marketing or analytics person so I wouldn’t know what sort of data would be needed to determine that, and if it’s even available in the current site version, but either way I don’t think there’s any way to tell other than making the change and seeing what happens.