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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Haven't used Midjourney since Flux dropped

MJ has always been this pixar-style-hyperfit SD variant. It almost seemed to just repeat google images but with gloss. Or at least a year ago it was like that.

For a period I daily checked its best outputs page: the "pixar" style was frequent, but far from being the only one. "Typical" like 10 is the type (mode) in 10+9+9+8+8+7+7+6+6+5+5+4+4+3+3+2+2+1+1 - but still 10% of the whole and just one possibility of all.

Midlibrary.io recognizes 5500 styles Midjourney knows.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Yes, unfortunately. That’s a no-go for me.

I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services. Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?

Why not just make another google account that you solely use for registration in services like these? Use a virtual machine with VPN if you really do not want it to be linked with your real account.

It is a bit of extra work but that's just how it is nowadays.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Because the alternative is pretty provably worse for you, and for them. * You have to save your (hopefully unique!) email/password in a password manager which is effectively contradictory to your "I won't use a cloud service" argument. * The company needs to build out a whole email/password authentication flow, including forgetting your password, resetting your password, hints, rate limiting, etc etc, all things that…

All very thoughtful arguments but I think this solution to these problems is flawed. I don't believe we should be solving authentication management problems by handing over all authentication capabilities and responsibilities to one or two mega companies. Especially since those companies can wield this enormous power by removing my access to this service because I may or may not have violated a policy unrelated to th…

There is: passkeys and alternative password managers.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Yes, unfortunately. That’s a no-go for me.

I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services. Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?

Yeah, they should add Github support.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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I have to say I'm very impressed. I've previously used free generators for generating scenery for my D&D campaign, and running a prompt here that previously took me dozens of tweaks to get something reasonable, instantly returned me a set of high quality images, at least one of which was much closer to my mind's eye than anything in those dozens of previous attempts. ( Prompting: An iron-gated door, set into a light…

Midjourney's "house style" leans towards fantasy by default.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services. Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?

Why not just make another google account that you solely use for registration in services like these? Use a virtual machine with VPN if you really do not want it to be linked with your real account. It is a bit of extra work but that's just how it is nowadays.

Does not google require a telephone number to create accounts nowadays? In some regions there are no anonymous SIM cards by law. (Temporary number services may not work well.)

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Why not just make another google account that you solely use for registration in services like these? Use a virtual machine with VPN if you really do not want it to be linked with your real account. It is a bit of extra work but that's just how it is nowadays.

Does not google require a telephone number to create accounts nowadays? In some regions there are no anonymous SIM cards by law. (Temporary number services may not work well.)

Midjourney is a paid-only service anyway, you would need to enter your credit card, so no anonymity.
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