Oh dear that didn't take long, did it? And they only want to comply with the law!

Guess social media is dead, then. Extinct like the Mastodon. Oh wait.

@d4v maybe do a little reading about how Miyazaki feels about AI.

That's not censorship, that's respect for real art and real artist's work.

@kudra @d4v is likely trolling. But it is also not just about Miyazaki's feelings. It is just an infringement on basic property rights. Idk about your posts, but many have not even acknowledged the original artists.

But the point of this post is that you can move to another instance. There might be a space on fediverse even for this most disgusting perversion.

oh hey cool they're doing exactly what I said they'd do, which is never federate and then slowly become yet another walled garden

it's literally built by the former twitter CEO, who left over arguments about federation not happening, like.... come on here...

@kudra @d4v
Ya, that's censorship with extra steps.

Fash have REALLY GOOD reasons in their head too.

I thought everyone was OK with copyright violations when we were doing big corporate but we feel different now that everyone is on the skewer?

@d4v that is cuz mastodon(.)social has moronic mods. (my account got suspended after going back and forth cuz a bunch of pricks abused the reporting system by reporting my comment as transphobia and harassment which were false)

I honestly despise that instance. Anyone with a brain who notices what is going on there should find different instances like I did.

@tommi

> for instance

Lol, I see what you did here

@d4v @osma

I'm confused. There are multiple, federated Bluesky servers, according to this post:

bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2…

So, why doesn't the user move their account from a server in Turkey to some other server?

@d4v Specific case aside, the main difference is that Mastodon is not one company deciding everything that happens on its servers.

Mastodon is kind of just the protocol, the one removing your post is the administration of your specific instance. Thus, you can move to a different instance and connect with all the same people

If you are banned from X or Bluesky, you're no longer present for everyone there

This is not hugely surprising.

If Twitter is fascist central then Bluesky is liberal central, and the sad reality is that liberals are just the good cop to the fascists' bad cop.

@punissuer @kudra @d4v
Just to get this moral conondrum right in my head;

Stealing from Corporations (push to the side) = Acceptable
Stealing from you (push over the edge) = Unacceptable

Right?

This theft of IP thing is not a new thing, even though millions of artist suddenly found immortality in the machine.

There is a saying that's applicable.

If you steal my art, that's theft.
If I steal yours, that's appropriation.

Anyway, I am of the belief that the AI will be the end of us.

But youse folks are way too late.
Few if any of you were with me when I fought privacy violations over the last 20 years.
Few if any of you were with me end of 2022 when I approached politicians about imminent danger from AI. In fact many of you LAUGHED OUT LOUD at my doomerism.
And I don't see many of you burning data centres.
So I find the indignation from folk who never even used AI properly...hollow.

All the respect to all you cross posting at each other about the evils of AI.
When you have a concrete plan of action, me and my home baked free model will be by your side.

"That's not censorship, that's respect for real art and real artist's work."

Tbh, @d4v should be allowed to post AI-generated artwork on their Mastodon account. Especially if it was a one-off.

"Yep if you call it like that, it was everywhere and it was cute"

I mean, online tech sites posted about the Ghibli AI trend and include these images in their news story. I wonder if sharing a news story like this also gets flagged for deletion:

techcrunch.com/2025/04/03/stud…

@grb090423 @kudra @osma

@matt @d4v @grb090423 if the Mastodon instance doesn't allow AI art, then it's up to them.

I am in a private Discord server that mods frown on AI art being posted. No one has been banned yet but the behaviour dropped off after the community made its feelings known - the majority expressed dislike and concern for the various harms, and so it's been rarely seen there since.

I think the ratio here speaks for itself.

@bekopharm

💯 Instance rules rule.

I was just pointing out that on mastodon.social that the rules state you are allowed to post AI images so long as it's clear it's AI and that isn't the only thing your account does.

@kudra

"If the Mastodon instance doesn't allow AI art, then it's up to them."

💯

My point was that mastodon.social does allow it, so long as it isn't the only thing you are posting. I checked their rules before replying.

cc. @d4v

@matt @d4v @grb090423 @kudra they can do that on their own account on their own instances where they can make the rules.

On someone else's instance you play by the house rules.

Calling that censorship completely misses the point and has "but muh free speech" vibes.

Bluesky is one house so there's no choice. It's only federated on paper.

@matt @kudra @d4v Mastodon social allows it, as long as it is clearly stated that the posted image is AI. If that wasn't done then it does violate their rules.

mastodon.social/about