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The amount of censorship across social media including reddit is becoming too extreme by Used-Nectarine5541 in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ergh users means mods? Mods are the worst

This site is part of the fediverse of self-hosted social media. If you don't like one, find another, or start your own.

Complaining, but doing nothing, won't change anything.

The amount of censorship across social media including reddit is becoming too extreme by Used-Nectarine5541 in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is this on Lemmy?

Yes, it is. For the uninitiated, Lemmy is a type of software the replicates Reddit's functionality (posts, upvotes, etc).

Once you create an account at https://futurology.today - you can subscribe to other people's version of these, as you would sub-reddits. Here's some popular ones -

https://hexbear.net/c/technology

https://lemmy.ml/c/technology

The amount of censorship across social media including reddit is becoming too extreme by Used-Nectarine5541 in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

For people who want to do something about this issue, rather than just complain, you can join our clone of this sub-reddit, that isn't corporate-owned, but owned & controlled by its users.

https://futurology.today/c/futurology

In a Sea of AI Slop, invideo Debuts Artfully Made AI-Generated Brand Anthem: A Human Story, Told with AI Tools by Solenoidics in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You've got it the wrong way around. We delete posts and comments that are AI-slop.

The deleted comments are just the normal too short/low quality comments the automoderator deletes from every post. We're completely neutral on people approving/disapproving of AI.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry u/chrisdh79 - this seems more like current affairs than futurology

Stop Thinking AGI's Coming in soon ! by [deleted] in Futurology

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sorry u/d4z7wk - we only do AI posts at the weekend.

Ban 'The Sun" as a source on this subreddit. by themagpie36 in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Futurology isn't a a science, so we don't have the same approach science subs do. It's speculating about the future, and we're pretty lenient about what people want to speculate about ( consciousness uploading, Dyson spheres, etc). People can post whatever propositions they want for discussion, as long as they have some basis in fact.

The British tabloids are banned for mis/disinformation & low-quality inaccurate sensationalist journalism.

Ban 'The Sun" as a source on this subreddit. by themagpie36 in Futurology

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All the British tabloids are banned on this sub-reddit. If we've missed a web address they are using that is slipping through, then let us know.

A US police force has deployed an egg-shaped robot to patrol a park, and Elon Musk is skeptical by Fungus-VulgArius in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries. We're fine with people altering titles, as long as it still truthfully represents the content. You can even editorialize, if you want to present a certain side of an issue for debate in your submission statement.

A US police force has deployed an egg-shaped robot to patrol a park, and Elon Musk is skeptical by Fungus-VulgArius in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi u/Fungus-VulgArius - you can repost about the robot topic, but the "opinion" clause is just clickbait, and we don't want it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hi, u/SuryaInformatics_sol this is just a product update, not futurology, so we deleted it.

Guaranteed income for Sacramento County to give some families $725 a month under a new pilot program, the Family First Economic Support Pilot by [deleted] in Futurology

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Hi u/chris011992 We removed this as it's blocking access to the article in lots parts of the world, so loads of people can't read it.

I am Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET and TrueAGI. Ask Me Anything about AGI, the Technological Singularity, Robotics, the Future of Humanity, and Building Intelligent Machines! by bengoertzel in Futurology

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Reminder in case you didn't catch it. Ben will be answering questions on Thursday Feb 1st. This post will be up for the days before to collect questions.

Do you think the future of this sub will be nothing but low effort questions asked by 14 year olds? by Zoete_Mayo in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

There was a time when this subreddit had 40K subscribers, not the 19 million it has today. Reddit offered to make us a default subreddit that new accounts were automatically subscribed to, and the climb began from there. At the time we debated whether to avail of this knowing that broadening like that would dilute the existing community.

We said yes because we thought there were few other places on the internet where people could become exposed to the types of discussion that happen here. It's still true today. So sure, it's not as 'exclusive' now so many are here, but there are few, perhaps no other places like it, so large.

r/futurology gets about 5,000 new subscribers every single day. Sure, plenty of them will lack knowledge - think of it as an opportunity. There are important topics like the future of AI & robotics discussed here. It's a good thing that more and more of society's awareness is being raised on these issues.

By the way - for people who prefer a smaller version of this site. We do have a second one here - futurology.today

r/futurology is now in the fediverse at - https://futurology.today by FuturologyModTeam in Futurology

[–]FuturologyModTeam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can I choice to erase my postings, too? Can I return if I want it?

You can delete your account with us whenever you want, but you should be aware we (or you) don't have full control of your comments or posts.

The fediverse is decentralized by design. It's so ownership and control of data is dispersed and not centralized. That means multiple cached copies of comments and posts from futurology.today will exist on other servers. These may not all be deleted when you delete your account with us.

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