It skips the step where you have to sift through a bunch of results and determine “is this what I was looking for?” and “how does this apply to my specific context?”

Right: it skips the part where human intelligence and critical thinking is applied. Do you not understand how that’s a fucking problem‽

Looking up a list of resources that you then evaluate yourself is very categorically different from getting an “answer” from a bot.

Considering how few references there were in the post

Why use many words when few words do trick?

It seems high as Lemm.ee had 1k daily active users for the last week.

What’s the count from the week before the shutdown announcement?

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All I’m saying is, if you don’t want to have a responsibility to the community, don’t set yourself up for people to rely on you. That’s your choice to take on that commitment – but once you’ve made that choice that’s what it is, a commitment.

Just to be clear, I’m not mad at poVoq/Kris, who has a very reasonable attitude about the situation. My initial comment giving feedback to him was very mild.

But no, this attitude of people like @[email protected] and you (@[email protected]), that instance admins can just let a bunch of people sign up and a bunch of communities to be created and then just shut it off without warning if they want, and that’s perfectly A-OK and 100% ethical to do, is bullshit and absolutely deserves to be pushed back on!

It’s a service used by the public.

If it were just a single-member instance that hosted no communities it’d be one thing, but slrpnk has some decently-important stuff on it. That creates some amount of responsibility on the admin’s part even if he isn’t getting paid for it.

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Two of the three I noticed were from different users (but the other two cases were the same username on different instances, so it’s very plausible that they may all be alt accounts of the same human).

You misspelled the instance name, but that’s a good thing since pinging the user in question with a mention probably wouldn’t have been a good idea anyway.

The thing that confuses me is that the user has posted a bunch of other content (both posts and comments) such that the ratio of spam to ham is pretty low, and the writing of the comments seems very human (in terms of the inferences it makes and the idioms it uses), so if it’s some kind of repost-bot, it’s a very sophisticated one.

It really seems like a legitimate user whose account is getting hijacked to occasionally post gibberish spam, which is why I find it so weird.

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I don’t think those accounts are admins of the instances they’re from. They could be alts, I suppose, but why would they use the same alt for both real interactions and test posts? And why would they be test-posting to real communities on other instances (especially without warning the mods first) instead of somewhere like [email protected] ?

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Db0 is super into decentralization! Everybody should make their account there!

…wait.

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