It’s not that hard to use llama.cpp directly anyway. Why would I use a wrapper when I can just run a python script?

Apologies, I think we are talking past each other. I think I misunderstood your initial comment. It read like a suggestion that lemmy’s more extreme communities were terroristic and a criticism of the first amendment, which suggested that you believe the government should be allowed to dictate what kind of speech is or isn’t acceptable – in particular on these little platforms. My comment was in response to that notion.

Re-reading it with your second comment, I think you’re saying that “terrorist ideologies” have been allowed to develop on conventional social-media by claiming first amendment protections in order to not moderate communities, and 2016 was not in reference to early lemmy but to the MAGA movement. That makes more sense, and I generally agree that conventional social-media follows irresponsible stewardship practices.

Turning to authorities to suppress fascism doesn’t seem practical. We need to cultivate good democratic systems and education systems that create citizens capable of thinking critically and turning down bad ideologies on their own. Citizens should be empowered, not coddled.

FOSS dominates by sheer persistence growing slowly as everything else burns bright and extinguishes until it’s the best remaining option.

It’s the slow way, but it’s the right way.

Fair enough, but in that case your argument seems in favor of staying with established systems even when central figures in those systems are corrupt. It’s hard not to sympathize with the impulse to separate from systems with prominent corruption, but perhaps there is an argument to be made about the need to tolerate some level of corruption for sake of social structure.

This concept of structured communities creating diversity appeals to me. As structural biologists, we often say Structure is Function, and it’s obvious this concept applies to societal rules and systems as much as physical systems.

It’s not willful ignorance to block users, comms, or instances. I’ve been pushed to block news/politics comms across multiple lemmy instances just to save myself the time spent reading the smooth-brained mouth-breathers argue we should abandon money and build a utopia out of hopes and dreams.