🧓 oh boy, I guess I get my senior citizen’s discount now!

Computer output cannot be copyrighted, don’t focus on it being “AI”. It’s not quite so simple, there’s some nuance about how much human input is required. We’ll likely see something about that at some point in court. The frustrating thing is that a lot of this boils down to just speculation until it goes to court.

This is why CC0 should not be used for code. Its public license fallback explicitly does not give patent rights. Compare that to MIT which implicitly does by saying you can use the software however you want. CC0 literally has this clause in the public license fallback.

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Yeah, a lot of copyright law in the US is extremely forgiving towards creators making mistakes. For example, you can only file for damages after you register the copyright, but you can register after the damages. So like if I made a book, someone stole it and starting selling copies, I could register for a copyright afterwards. Which honestly is for the best. Everything you make inherently has copyright. This comment, once I click send, will be copyrighted. It would just senselessly create extra work for the government and small creators if everything needed to be registered to get the protections.

Edit: As an example of this, this is why many websites in their terms of use have something like “you give us the right to display your work” because, in some sense, they don’t have the right to do that unless you give them the right. Because you have a copyright on it. Displaying work over the web is a form of distribution.

I’ve said this a lot in different places and the Lemmy community is so small folks might even recognize me repeating myself, but I’ll say it again here. The problem with recommending a good Discord alternative is that Discord is different things for different people. For some it’s streaming. For some it’s video calls. For some it’s voice calls. For some it’s DMs. For some it’s group servers. For some the image and video sharing is an important aspect. It’s hard to recommend a good alternative because you’ll always inevitably run into the problem of someone saying “but it doesn’t do the thing I use it for.” The reality is that folks might need to use multiple apps to meet their needs if they migrate.

If you’d skimmed the article you would’ve seen they they suggested Discourse which the author openly admits is a forum, not a chat app. But hey, that’s what some folks use Discord as.

Where do you think you are? (Yes I know this isn’t exactly a BBS.)

I guess I need to talk about my 401k at least once before March or something.

It’s probably like 98% every other week/twice a month, 1% monthly, and 1% weekly.

Given that those fees are typically meant to cover processing fees and credit cards typically offer rewards because they effectively give you a cut of the processing fee this would make sense.

That’s amazing. I’m gonna tell my mom that, she’ll love it.

The thing is that Discord is sort of like three or four things all in one and it’s really difficult to find a good replacement that does them all while still having a nice userbase.

This is the part where my mom would mention party lines.

In some rural areas there was something like not every house had a unique phone number, but as a side effect you could just pick up the phone and talk to all the people on that same party line at once.

Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.

Define “quickly” and why is it not always immediately after confirmation?

That joke is NSFW, please present facial verification and ID now or you will be banned and reported to the authorities!

One of my Discord friends has a stalker and can’t get anything but automated messages.

Guilded went to Roblox-only in 2025. I’d never heard of it until someone else mentioned it as an alternative.

☝️🤓 Discord said they’re going to delete the data!

Yes, that’s the one small silver lining one the pile of bullshit this is. Plus you won’t need to do it multiple times anymore.

It comes down to is Discord really deleting it once they’re done and not training on the facial scans.

But snap bad

That length sock is better than the one for Ubuntu in my head though. So win win.