I run a neighborhood association and it's hard to get anyone to do any tech thing and it's hard to host Mastodon and I found GoToSocial a little rough last year

But! I love the idea and I want it to work and I want an alternative to NextDoor for us! I'd love to host a little fedi thing for my neighborhood

Also, Terence Eden has done some thinking about location-based services on the Fediverse.

Perhaps you could have an anonymous setting and a public setting. The first for random chats with local strangers, the second for attending events etc.

mastodon.social/@Edent/1169856…

@tom79 Define nearest town.

Geospatial anonymization/pseudonymization is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, exercises in GDPR native design.

It's literally data that yells out to be deanonymized.

I think anonymity should be optional.

How about default real name with optional zero knowledge proofs for anonymisation?

Instance owners should be able to enforce real-name or stable pseudonym policy for civility.

People are idiots and don't have a clue.

Citation: fortune.com/2026/05/18/6-7-mil…

perso, je ne comprends pas que tu protèges l’anonymat de tous ces fouriens.

Et pour le reste, bah courage !

C'est pourtant évidant que l'IA est incapable de garder une telle continuité au niveau du style et des personnages. Les poses sont beaucoup trop dynamiques aussi.

Gros soutien 🥰

@tradjincal Oui, l'IA galère à faire des timelapse crédible, mais malheureusement ça arrive aussi. Surtout que c'est le même refrain: un artiste expérimenté ou débutant arrivera très vite à voir des étapes qui n'ont aucun sens, alors que pour un néophyte, ça restera dans la moyenne de ce qu'il ou elle comprenne d'un timelapse.

C'est pas galère dans Krita, et intégré: je le partage avec toutes mes BD (dans le post, ou dans les reply) depuis un an et plus: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min…

@Yahiko @ledeuns 🤣

@ledeuns Incroyablement Amical même !

@davidrevoy

@Yahiko Un Incroyable Artiste ?

@davidrevoy

@rdp
In my case I have proof they have! One of the books I did a chapter in is in the Anthropic case, and I know LAION5B scraped my art blog for art, I am guessing they trained the 100,000s of words I wrote there too.

So yeah, I'm not copying AI, they are probably copying me!

(although the em dashes are not my fault)

@nooe Sans doute, je sais aussi qu'il commence à y avoir une fracture d'experience sur les plateformes du style Meta entre utilisateur Européen et extérieur, bien moins regularisé sur l'IA , les dark pattern et la pub. Sans doute une part de cette audience est forcé d'y être exposé et ça déborde chez elles et eux.

Merci en tout cas pour les mots sympas! 💜

@tcit Merci

(bien vue pour cet oublie! J'ai flouté et re-uploadé l'image)

While it hasn't happened to me as much (in part because I only post here really and am not as well known or popular of an artist), it is devastating every time someone makes that accusation.

I find that the people making accusations usually just have a feeling, and then pile on the confirmation bias as they search for reasons in the art itself to justify their feeling.

Keep doing what you do. It's invaluable. Even if there are those who can't be bothered to do the research, having real art made by real artists is so important right now.

Je suis curieux de comprendre la démarche de ces personnes.

Préserver l'Art et les artistes en dénigrant les rendus de l'IA ? Dans ce cas supposer par défaut que c'est un rendu de l'IA conduit au contraire à dénigrer les artistes.

Vanter les capacités des IA ? C'est justement parce qu'il y a des artistes talentueu·se·s à plagier qu'il devient plus difficile de distinguer les rendus d'IA récents.

Pourquoi s'adresser à toi comme ça ?
J'ai l'impression d'être à côté de la plaque.

@feff
I think this must be a 'user' thing, people assume you use Facebook, or other big tech social media, we can tell this as there is very little option to 'share on fediverse' for example.

Another example is the media talk about people who are apparently super famous usually either influencers or reality TV stars that no one out side of those circles of influence have even heard of.

@skobkin
you didn't read any of david's comics, did you? AI slop being everywhere and spreaders of slop not disclosing their use of AI means no one can trust if anything is authentic anymore, whether it's art, news, articles.

don't celebrate this breakdown of trust.

@skobkin oh no the AI hatred is TOTALLY justified.

GenAI is lazy and ruining our livelihoods - I stopped creating my watercolours because I thought what is the point? I am feeding a machine without payment, I am not getitng royalties for the folks who created stuff on Midjourney and Stable Diffusion trained off my landscapes.

And it does matter how it's created. If it's created by stealing all our work - and yes my work like David's is in the training models, then it's bad and parasitic.

And terrible for the planet...all that water in a drought for the data centres...ugh.

@Cyani Moi en tout cas je suis très admiratif de ta technique, et du résultat — j’aime vraiment beaucoup tes dessins :)

(j’ai un peu ri devant certains commentaires, notamment ceux qui attaquent le D20 qui a pourtant *clairement* été dessiné avec un vrai sous les yeux)

I'm sure this won't make much of a difference but if it helps at all, I never got an AI vibe from any of your (beautifully drawn BTW) comics. No idea what these people are seeing beyond the whole "Everyone I disagree with is a bot" thing going a little overboard lately.

Maybe you should start your next comic with a character saying "You're absolutely right" just to mess with them