Hey there!
First off, I wanted to say on behalf of the entire mod team that we hoped this place would be successful but none of us expected to reach over 1,000 subscribers in 96 hours. That's incredible and we are extremely humbled and grateful. The community has thrived and we're so happy to see so many people engaging with the community, whether thats posts or comments. Things have really kicked off and we hope things only get better from here!
That being said, we as mods do have some work to do. This community was made with the idea that we would have clear rules written for our users so you knew when to expect intervention from the moderation team. We're all pretty new at this and while we have the advice and experience of others who have been doing this for far long, we do have to still update things as they go.
There have been some posts made recently that were reported and brought to light. The mod team has been discussing it behind the scenes and we decided we needed to address it by adding a couple of more rules to the sidebar. If we started removing posts without giving explanations on the side of what to expect, then we've failed in our original purpose for the community. So the new rules being added are as follows:
The first new one is No AI Art. It hurts the creative community overall but is also very low-effort in general. There are many communities in which AI can work but this isn't one of them.
The second is No reposts within 1-2 months. We're keeping the timeframe vague because mistakes happen and you might not be aware of if posts did happen at all. Then there's the factor of how popular that post was and whether it would have easily been seen. However we're really generous and understand that not everyone is active at all times. Reposts within 48 hours? That's something different.
The third new one is Limit of 3-4 posts per hour. Honestly that's probably more than anyone really needs to begin with but we don't want to hamper the community. If things grow and activity does too then we can definitely revisit this but as it stands, posting 5 posts within the space of 30 minutes is essentially spam.
We hope that everyone understands the changes we've made and that more changes may come in the future, especially so early on in the lifespan of /c/TenForward. Thank you guys for your time, patience, activity, engagement and love. We all feel it here at the mod team and reflect it back at you.
Live long and prosper!
Depending on your hardware you might be able to generate images without using any service! For all its quirks, downsides and moral stuff, it can be a lot of fun to play with. If you’re on Apple hardware, try my favorite tool, Draw Things https://apps.apple.com/it/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id6444050820?l=en-GB that is free, without ads and worst case scenario it runs like crap on your device if it’s not very modern. If you’re not using Apple gear, Enfugue (that still supports Macs) https://github.com/painebenjamin/app.enfugue.ai is quite simple and easy to install.
And obviously what’s probably the most popular option, the behemoth that is known as automatic1111 stable diffusion webui https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui that’s not the most user friendly solution but…
I appreciate the advice, but I don't think those work for me because I am currently on Apple hardware, but it is too old to run those sort of apps. It's an Intel iMac. I'm not a huge Apple fan, but I have needed Macs for work for many years, but I'm no longer working and won't be for a while. I'm going to replace it with a Linux machine as soon as it dies, but I don't see a reason to until it does.
Perfectly sensible is the only thing I can say about it :)