However, not every videos are captioned.

That’s the point you misunderstood : the scale of uncaptionned video and the deadline. Given the huge amount of videos, a fansub can’t match the scale of video content created every days. That’s where AI can save my day. It does help me.

If i watch something that doesn’t have a fansub, community : 0 captions. So i have to create a request in your communities. some people may accept, some people may reject it. At best i have to wait some days or months. It depend on our free time since we are doing voluntary work.

You omited podcasts. If i try any french webradio : 0 transcript. Some people used AI to get a transcript for their podcast. They reread and corrected it. It helped them getting a transcript quickly and i benefit from it.

I studied space design. Teachers shared lot videos on architecture, those videos weren’t captioned, so as a student i poured lot effort to understand what they said in those videos…At the end of day, i was exhausted. I poured too much effort and ended up in burn out.

Later, i followed a course to become a farmer. It was during the Covid period. I had to wait 6 months to get sign language interpreters. Not only i lost half a year battling to get sign language interpreters, but i also had to watch video on agroecology without manmade captions and participate to visio meeting…Luckily, there was some apps as Ava, google transcript and later Lokas (free software from framasoft. It use whysper) that use artificial intelligence. Teachers and students weared mask, i couldn’t read on their lips. So how do you handle it ?

I can’t imagine how i would deal it without those AI app. It would be hell and would have stopped my lesson because of burn out.

Another example. In 2024, the french president dissolved the national assembly. Election were upcoming in less a month. I battled very hard to get captionned videos, contacted lot people, joined various group, called deputies to get their video captioned for deaf people and translated in sign language. We were a team and only got two or three videos…

I can use those AI app when :

• no one is taking note on a collaborative pad
• if interpreters aren’t available.
• if there is no caption

Lastly, some deaf friends told me they used AI to help them writting good sentence. Most of deaf people struggle with writting.

So, I have a nuanced opinion on AI. They are part of corpothieve, tech bro that destroy our environement and promote fascism or occidental visio on the world. On the other hand, it is also a tool that can help deaf people in their daily life and scientific research.

There is pro and cons using lemmy or piefed. Both have a different stance on moderation and offer a different experience.

Lemmy doesn’t check downvote or users with bad reputation. How are you able to act with toxic users ? For example one downvoting a lot and the other one that post terrible thing thus get lot downvote ? Is this good for your community ? I don’t think you will enjoy interacting with them.

Piefed score was requested by most admins and mods. It help us creating good community, our main job is creating a place where people enjoy sharing their experience. There are 2 scores :

• attitude : it calculate the ratio of downvote/upvote. How do you react when people have lot negativity ? Most of us are around 70%. If you downvote a lot, that’s not a good behaviour. There are few users or bots that downvote a lot. their attitude score is around 20% something like that, it is low. It removes the ability to downvote until you upvote and reach a threshold. So it invite user to use other tools (filter) to improve their timeline instead of voting.
• reputation : that’s the upvote you receive. Posting meme don’t boost your reputation. Why ? Because of karma farming. Let’s say i post terrible things, and i receive lot downvote. Meanwhile, i post fun meme and get lot upvotes…

So it just give us a general idea on users and improve community ambiance.

Futhermore, you can’t just take the scoring system alone. Those features work together :

• mods can remove downvote per community. I removed them in my communities.
• filters : you can filter keywords, communities, instances and users.
• report. It is more efficient, i prefer it over the automod that work well.