FAT TITTED DYKES, MONSTERS AND CIGARETTES

I already wasnt getting any traction on this godforsaken website and tumblr partnering with AI is the final nail in the coffin

Ill be deleting my blog (AGAIN) in a few days i guess

If you actually want to follow me elsewhere, follow me on cohost (PREFERABLE) or Bluesky (if youre really too stubborn to use cohost)

The nutshell version:

You don't have to pay. When I signed up there was a waiting period between registration and being able to post. I have no idea if this is still a thing, but when I did it, it was about a day. (There's a Cohost Plus thing you can pay for but it's not mandatory and is presently only really for increasing your max upload size.)

It works a lot like Tumblr. If you're used to using this place, dollars to donuts you'll be able to use Cohost without any issue.

There is presently no algorithm, so no real built-in discovery. If you want to find stuff, search the tags and you'll probably find whatever you like.

You can hide 18+ content if you don't want to see it. This is, of course, dependent on people actually flagging their stuff as 18+, but as far as I've seen everyone's been really good about that.

The toggle is right inside the post box. Dead simple.

Bonus junk -

If you hate the color scheme but you use the Stylus extension, install this theme (https://userstyles.world/style/7690/cohost-theme-customizer) and you can make it any color you want.

There are no metrics. No way to see how many people have liked or reblogged your stuff, and no way to see how many followers you have. Some people hate this. I like it because it shaves some of the stress off.

You can toggle a bunch of things on other people's blogs depending on what you want to see.

There are no themes, but you can put images and junk into your sidebar, so you can still fancy up a bit.

As I mentioned in a prior post, you can make side-blogs, and those side-blogs all have their own feeds. So if you don't want your peas touching your potatoes, you don't have to let them touch.

I already wasnt getting any traction on this godforsaken website and tumblr partnering with AI is the final nail in the coffin

Ill be deleting my blog (AGAIN) in a few days i guess

If you actually want to follow me elsewhere, follow me on cohost (PREFERABLE) or Bluesky (if youre really too stubborn to use cohost)

I already wasnt getting any traction on this godforsaken website and tumblr partnering with AI is the final nail in the coffin

Ill be deleting my blog (AGAIN) in a few days i guess

If you actually want to follow me elsewhere, follow me on cohost (PREFERABLE) or Bluesky (if youre really too stubborn to use cohost)

I already wasnt getting any traction on this godforsaken website and tumblr partnering with AI is the final nail in the coffin

Ill be deleting my blog (AGAIN) in a few days i guess

If you actually want to follow me elsewhere, follow me on cohost (PREFERABLE) or Bluesky (if youre really too stubborn to use cohost)

sure, here's 5 reasons.

#1 - they're designed for very specific models of ai. by the time they could even hypothetically poison enough of the world's images to affect ais in any meaningful sense the architecture will have changed. it's not fast enough

#2 - it only prevents people training things like LORAs or fine-tuning on a specific artist's output and does nothing to affect image-to-image (the only thing that could realistically be qualified as plagiarism in any sense) or image prompting (i've tried this one myself to win an argument on twitter but they told me to kill myself).

#3 - image ais are no longer trained by vacuuming up as many images as possible and training on the resultant sludge - that's 2021-tier. two years in ai research is a LOT of time and by the time enough data gets poisoned to hypothetically matter it'll be years down the road. the emphasis in ai research nowadays is increasing the quality of the caption data as well as developing models that function more efficiently off fewer images, which is not something that many anti-ai people don't know because they keep a concerted effort to not stay up to date.

#4 - the image ais like stable diffusion are already trained. as that one post about vegan chicken nuggets said, the chicken is already in the nugget. you can't un-train the ai and then force the poisoned data back in. if you poison enough data for it to matter ai art people will just go back to earlier models (or wait until the architecture changes enough for it to not matter, see point #1). anyone selling you 'algorithmic disgorgement' has no idea what they're talking about and fundamentally doesn't understand the FOSS ecosystem.

#5 - the most damning is that nightshade and glaze can both be trivially defeated by applying a 1% gaussian blur to your image, which destroys the perturbations required to poison the data.

garnet pinup is up on patreon!

plus a 🍆 variant :y