Well AI is destroying search, one of the main points of AI is to design an architecture where ads and Not Bullshit can come together in an organic, inseparable union that regulators can’t figure out how to reasonably demand be artificially severed.

The cardinal sin for Google with search engines is it is too obvious when something is a manipulated advertisement vs. actual search result and A.I. perfectly “solves” that problem.

Google needs to be broken up.

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Not convinced yet, but we will see

I am skeptical to say the least.

genius

If nothing else I am consistent lol but my recommendation is Dokuwiki

https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

There is no some obnoxious database just a single folder.

Everything except the initial install can be do in a nice GUI inteface and there are is a wonderful media browser with a great tagging system and everything.

There is a nice collection of Dokuwiki plugins that can tackle this use case I think.

Condescendingly always saying you are too busy doing important things to write good documentation.

No they are not, some are made for obtuse assholes by obtuse assholes.

At least those are videos of a real videogame.

I find it incredibly insulting how my algorithm is always giving me ads and thinly veiled ads for predatory casinos wearing the mutilated echos of popcap games (pre EA). It equally insults my intelligence and the artistry that actually earns the prestige of successful, critically acclaimed games, and it is a disgusting, pathetic way to earn a living.

There are also going to be lots of talent who permanently leave the industry because there are no longer any stable decent paying jobs at larger studios.

Super cool, I realized I was thinking of the wargame A Few Acres Of Snow by martin wallace (the designer of the modern classics, Brass Birmingham and Brass Lancashire)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/79828/a-few-acres-of-snow

Where did this art come from? It seems like the cover to a tabletop wargame about the french and indian war or something.

Also all of these technologies forever and inescapably must rely on a foundation of trust with users and people who are sources of quality training data, “trust” being something US tech companies seem hell bent on lighting on fire and pissing off the yachts of their CEOs.

hence certain tech grifters going “oh shitt…”

Disgusting and scary.

I think it isn’t just about the algorithm of moderation not being perfect, the nature of the moderation problem itself demands an answer of a fuzzy type.

Any single moderation system can never create an acceptable and stable solution. The distortion from edge cases, trolls that exploit them and outside bullshit inveitably leads to toxicity and centralization under a harsh group think (censorship of palestinian voices on bluesky being one example).

Any real solution to the problem must be of an architecture of diversity, with many different moderation policies and authorities that 99% of the time agree in spirit (until they don’t and then sometimes a difficult parting of ways occurs).

It is much more difficult to prey on a community as a nazi troll when every damn fediverse instance seems to draw the red line differently and not only does that make being a toxic edgey boi much harder especially if you have no functioning moral compass left… but also somehow even with all that disgusting lack of conformity every single progressive community immediately recognizes you for being a nazi.

I mean this isn’t actually that complicated, we just live in a moment where we have materially disempowered artists and creatives who understand this kind of thing implicitly.

In a reality where the tech press had any sense of vision or independence the headline would simply read “Ok Now Your Turn Oligarchs”,

Too bad Luigi isn’t a cop, then they might have given him a slap on the wrist and a description of events in the media that read “last night the trigger of Luigi’s self defense weapon caused ignition in the barrel which resulted in a bullet being ejected at high speed. Healthcare provider and loyal family man Brian Thomson was tragically caught in the path of the (*several) bullets. Authorities are investigating the bullets to determine their motive.”

(I made a seperate post because for alternate idea)

Have you considered hosting a lemmy instance yourself and possibly preconstructing lemmy threads in some bulk fashion with gifs grouped by topic or theme and just use lemmy itself as the platform to share gifs?

Just because lemmy threads were created to mimic reddit threads doesn’t mean we are confined to only using lemmy as a reddit-like tool…

Just an interesting thought I had shrugs

…ok I know I always recommend dokuwiki for everything but it is super easy to set up and doesn’t need a database or anything and it comes stock with a nice gui media manager and a lot of plugins that extend that functionality.

If you are willing to provide or pay for the hosting of a large amount of images I don’t see the reason to go with anything more complicated though you may find something more minimal that suits your needs.

https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

https://www.dokuwiki.org/tips:cms

I don’t know if there is a way to handle metadata for non-jpg images but there are a number of ways you could organize gifs including photo namespaces.

https://www.dokuwiki.org/media_manager

or using the imagebox plugin and just directly put tags in the caption

https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:imagebox

or a number of other ways probably.

The nice thing about this solution is all the data is accessible and in plain text readable markdown which also makes it easy to strap other things onto, search through with whatever tools you want and easily run a backup process on (especially since everything is neatly contained within a folder).

Don’t make the mistake most people of thinking dokuwiki is only useful as a traditional wiki, it is such a simple and general tool that its power extends far past that.