I really miss kbin… 😔(no hard feelings, I genuinely wish Ernest the best and hope he makes a comeback)

I actually tried migrating my account from there before the major issues, as a backup, but realised it didn’t back up my blocked lists, which are much harder for me to recreate than my subscribed list and settings are, so decided to wait and see if anyone improved the migration tools.

Then it became too late, and I had to start from scratch, and am now regretting the instance I chose, and have not yet had the brain space to check out the other kbin/mbin instances and find a new one I like. Until then I’m reluctant to participate.

If anything, the last couple of months, with kbin dying and realising how uncomfortable I am on an instance run by people who have expectations from their users I fundamentally disagree with, have made me want to start my own private kbin/mbin instance for myself so that I don’t end up in either situation again, but I don’t know that it’s something I can take on, having no programming knowledge or any experience with anything like that.

So yes, I agree with you, for more than the reasons you’ve provided, and I hope we, as a general community use these developments to learn and improve.

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I love this

Right, there are so many different reasons people would find this helpful.

Ah, but you see, these examples are about lesser people, that society shouldn’t have to consider or provide access for…

(heavy sarcasm on my behalf, but that’s the implication of this post and almost all of the replies)

but that’s not a hard fuckin book

For you.

JFC, is it really that hard for some people to see outside of themselves? 🤦‍♀️

Yeah, the amount of ableism (and classism, racism) in the post and comments is fucking gross.

AI is a tool.

Are capitalists using it for evil? Sure.

Is this specifically an evil use?

Only if your goal is to exclude people who you see as lesser than yourself from accessing information you have the privilege to freely access.

Personally having the knowledge and ability to read books in general, but in what is often outdated (or not even someone’s first) language, unaided, doesn’t mean everyone does (or that everyone ever will be, even in whatever “perfect” world they like to imagine where people with different needs don’t exist), and making literature more accessible will only ever be a positive thing (again, unless someone’s goal is to exclude people they see as lesser than them, which evidently many do, in which case, rallying against accessibility aids is right on brand).

People need to get off their high horses and start aiming their anger where it belongs (how about the billionaire owned governments that ensure the population is poorly educated to make us all, yourselves included as is clearly evident here, easier to manipulate, or that exclude those of us with different needs and learning styles and classifies us as “burdens”, or the billionaires making billions more from commodifying freely available information), not join hands with oppressors and stomp anyone they consider bellow them.

On a personal note, I think the exhibition should have just been called “Beauty” rather than “Other Beauty”, but “Free” fits the statue perfectly.

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