Absolutely, if you’re seeing propaganda, it’s because it’s allowed on that instance. But the presence of propaganda has nothing to do if an account is an LLM or not.

Moderation on the Feviderse is different than on commercial platforms because it’s context-dependent instead of rules-dependent. That means that a user accout (bot or otherwise) that does not contribute to the spirit of a community will not be welcomed.

There is largely no incentive to run an LLM that is a constructive member of a community, bots are built to push an agenda, product, or exhibit generally disruptive behavior. Those things are unwelcome in spaces built for discussion. So mods/admins don’t need to know “how to identify a bot”, they need to know "how to identify unwanted behavior".

Yeah BlueSky is a solid side-step. It’s still for-profit and not federated but every BlueSky user is one not on X. And a lot of BlueSky’s userbase is comprised of particularly influential X users so them leaving is particularly harmful to the ecosystem.

I also think it’s funny how the journalists who repeat BlueSkys “decentralized” nonsense thought Mastodon was too weird and technical, and yet are promoting Pixelfed. Not complaining, but it is funny.

What bugs have you encountered lately? I’ve been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it’s overall been very smooth experience for me.

I have had similar thoughts, I think the answer ultimately lies in active mods that can really get to know a community and it’s users and identify when users are pushing a narrative even if they can’t confirm if they are a bot or not.

Also as @[email protected] pointed out, user registrations. On startrek.website we have a question that is easy for a star trek fan to answer but not easy for a bot (although getting back to your concern, chatGPT probably would have no problem)

I do not think the future of the fediverse lies in general purpose instances but that said, IMO Beehaw is the gold standard of a general purpose instance.

Post scheduling is huge! Lots of good stuff in here.

This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can’t have. Very cool.

That’s the user downvoting the copy of the post on their own instance. If OP doesn’t have downvotes then those votes won’t federate.

It’s not a single person instance either, it’s just using your own domain in your handle.

It’s a for profit company founded by jack dorsey and currently led by a cryptocurrency fanatic

The CEO comes from the world of crypto and it is a for profit company

Can you link to one of these other instances?

There is only one bluesky it’s literally centralized

This is the first I’m hearing of any issue with it resembling a pentagram, the criticisms I’ve heard involve the design in general not looking professional, not scaling well, and lacking a unique palette.

This logo is really unpopular hence why there is always so much talk of making something cleaner and more professional.

This logo is really unpopular hence why there is always so much talk of making something cleaner and more professional.

This is just the domain name, not the instance itself. If the instance is offline the moderator accounts will be inaccessible even if the domain name is sold.

I think this is the next big step for fediverse adoption. Mobile apps can easily obfuscate the different servers, but an integrated browser solution would be huge.

Like imagine commenting on a blog directly with your Lemmy account, without first navigating to your instance. No more “please link to the original source”.

This is cool. The CEO of ghost was on dot social (fediverse podcast) recently and I thought their approach to ActivityPub integration was interesting.