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To me, that image looks like an example of indexing, not promotion.

If the pedophile site uses Lemmy software, an index of sites using Lemmy software would include it.

Is there additional information that would tilt the scale toward this being promotion rather than simple indexing?

Gaahh, my eyes! The green! It burns!

I don’t use Mastodon myself, but I appreciate the author’s perspective.

Just because your system is automated doesn’t mean it’s free of bias. LLMs are trained on human-generated content. Human-generated content has biases. The model will reflect those biases. There’s also the proclivity of GPT to be confidently incorrect, like when it made up completely bogus court cases and a credulous lawyer used them in an actual case. I wouldn’t want to get my news from a source that may be lying to my face.

Mine is located in my house.

everything follows whatever data laws they pass

Not just data access or privacy, but also data retention laws for public officials. While one can hope no nation is afflicted with a leader like Donald Trump, a government-run Mastodon server wouldn’t have problems like this.

“These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”

Try swapping the ! for an @