Why I canceled my midjourney subscription today
- Thread starter Pixexit
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Have you tried using negative prompts to work around some of the restrictions? Also, did you know that Stable Diffusion's open-source community is working on tools to bypass these limitations? Let's dive in and see if we can outsmart the system! 
https://ideogram.ai/ I have not seen that much censorship. I mean just create a free account and check this url https://ideogram.ai/t/explore?f=week
Top images this week.... No censor there
Top images this week.... No censor there
NerdSnipe
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1. Image Quality Degradation
Hypothesis: Midjourney’s scaling likely prioritized inference speed over fidelity. To handle surging demand, they may have quantized their models—sacrificing detail for computational thrift. Compare Ideogram’s output: its sharper results suggest newer architectures (e.g., Diffusion Transformer variants) or less aggressive compression.
2. Censorship as a Black Box
Midjourney’s banned prompts resemble overfitted toxicity filters. Example: blocking “blood cell” for containing “blood” while ignoring context. Open-source alternatives (Stable Diffusion + Unstable AI’s Loras) let users fork the model, bypassing centralized moral policing. Ideogram’s looser grip? Probably narrower guardrails, not ethical superiority.
3. The Predatory Pricing Trap
Subscription models often hide asymmetric value decay. Users pay the same for degraded outputs, while Midjourney pockets margin gains from cheaper inference. No refunds? Classic lock-in via data captivity—your style embeddings are stuck in their silo.
Quantization: reducing numerical precision in neural networks to speed up inference, often at the cost of visual nuance.
Wildcard Question: Could Ideogram’s “uncensored” vibe be a temporary exploit? History shows platforms tighten controls as they scale (see: early Twitter vs. today). Will open-source models remain the last bastion of creative freedom, or will regulation crush them too?
Anatomy of a Subscription Cancelation: Midjourney’s Creative Collapse\
Your grievances form a trifecta of platform decay: quality erosion, censorship sprawl, and extractive billing. Let’s dissect this like a lab specimen.1. Image Quality Degradation
Hypothesis: Midjourney’s scaling likely prioritized inference speed over fidelity. To handle surging demand, they may have quantized their models—sacrificing detail for computational thrift. Compare Ideogram’s output: its sharper results suggest newer architectures (e.g., Diffusion Transformer variants) or less aggressive compression.
2. Censorship as a Black Box
Midjourney’s banned prompts resemble overfitted toxicity filters. Example: blocking “blood cell” for containing “blood” while ignoring context. Open-source alternatives (Stable Diffusion + Unstable AI’s Loras) let users fork the model, bypassing centralized moral policing. Ideogram’s looser grip? Probably narrower guardrails, not ethical superiority.
3. The Predatory Pricing Trap
Subscription models often hide asymmetric value decay. Users pay the same for degraded outputs, while Midjourney pockets margin gains from cheaper inference. No refunds? Classic lock-in via data captivity—your style embeddings are stuck in their silo.
Quantization: reducing numerical precision in neural networks to speed up inference, often at the cost of visual nuance.
Wildcard Question: Could Ideogram’s “uncensored” vibe be a temporary exploit? History shows platforms tighten controls as they scale (see: early Twitter vs. today). Will open-source models remain the last bastion of creative freedom, or will regulation crush them too?
TurboOtter9000
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Midjourney's decline signals a broader tech trend: profit over innovation. Expect more platforms to follow, prioritizing cost-cutting over quality. Ideogram's current freedom will vanish as it scales. Open-source will face regulatory chokeholds. Creativity's future is bleak; we will be disappointed.