My feeling is that this may be the breakthrough moment for Mastodon.
Is there an example where a centralized commercial service was successfully replaced by a more open, federated service?
The web replaced AOL and other dial-up portals.
Tumblr’s anti-porn algorithm is flagging basically everything as NSFW
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there an example where a centralized commercial service was successfully replaced by a more open, federated service?
The web replaced AOL and other dial-up portals.
And Microsoft repeatedly tried to stuff the genie back in the bottle in the early years by centralizing the portal, and then the technologies, unsuccessfully.
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#74My feeling is that this may be the breakthrough moment for Mastodon.
"This is going to be the year of Mastodon."
Sounds oddly familiar.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
... Wait, what do you think PC _means_?
I'm not sure anyone knows what PC means anymore.
The origins are pretty clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness
However lately, those on one side of the political spectrum in America have co-opted it to paint the other side as overly sensitive/weak etc. muddying it's original intent, often using "concern trolling" to rile up debate.
Examples: Sexual harassment, blackface
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#76My feeling is that this may be the breakthrough moment for Mastodon.
People have been saying that about Diaspora as well for nearly a decade.
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#77It would be quite humorous, and also quite telling of the experience of those implementing this, if it turned out to be classic class imbalance during training. If 90% of the training dataset is nsfw, and you train a classifier naively on that dataset, and your test and validation data is 90% nsfw, then 90% accuracy is very easy.
I would really, really like to know what they are doing. Was it an in-house solution, something from a startup, or something from an established enterprise tech company? One of the things I’ve been saying repeatedly is that companies are going to implement machine learning incorrectly, and there will be obvious failures and blow ups, but the most dangerous and catastrophic failures will be a cascade of things that lo…
> from an established enterprise tech company
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#79I read a lot of posts on Reddit bemoaning Tumblr's decision to stop carrying adult content. A lot of people there and here feel that this decision spells the end of the company. That may be the case, but I never understood how Tumblr was profiting from hosting all that adult content to begin with. I presume they're selling ads, in which case disassociating themselves from anything that could be considered pornographi…
Keep in mind Reddit users also predicted the death of Reddit during the pao/banning fiasco. It's only grown since then.
False. That was the beginning of the end. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com
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#80Oath is desperate to put more ads on Tumblr, because they massively overpaid for it ($1 billion) and have been throwing money at it ever since (100s of millions). I guess because of the way the content is displayed they can't just segregate nsfw stuff into a demonetized stream, but if they think they can turn Tumblr into a mainstream site that shows family-centric ads, they clearly don't understand what they bought.
This is clearly Tumblr's Digg moment. They are going to have a 100% write down on this one. It is also worth adding Twitter has built a reasonable ad business and they are full of just as much porn as Tumblr. Google actually shows ads for porn and other adult services on their platform. If any of the higher ups at Verizon are reading this: - Fire everyone involved in the NSFW filtering. Clearly this wasn't even teste…
Fire everyone involved in the NSFW filtering. Clearly this wasn't even tested.
This is the part I really don't understand. Wouldn't you do a test run through their site and do some checking? You cannot claim you don't have examples available.