@[email protected] Does the previous message sound like from an AI or someone imitating an AI?

Yes. But at least with the admin group I’m part of, it’s dealt with fairly quickly, because we employ automated tools to help fight the spam.

We also have auto moderators. The recent spam wave didn’t occur on my instance at all. But my Matrix notification channel sure did explode with messages of bots being banned.

That just won’t work. First and foremost, I won’t be hosting illegal stuff, just so you can have your freedom. Think child porn and stuff. Happened multiple times on Lemmy and probably will happen again. If you haven’t seen it, your admin most likely has and dealt with it.

And with stuff like Hexbear and other troll instances, I just don’t want to deal with tens of reports a day, I simply block them because they’re trolls.

If you want that kind of freedom, you have to create your own. I’m not gonna spend a significant amount of time on reports that can be avoided. And definitely not going to prison.

Well, at least I review the user profile in question when banning people. And take the whole context into account. Makes it harder, but I can usually ban people with clear conscience.

It started happening to me as well. And only on Lemmy.

It goes to the mods and to the admins of either the reporting user’s instance or the instance of the user being reported.

So whenever a lemmings.world user reports something, I know about it and whenever something by a lemmings.world user is reported, I know about it as well.

I personally don’t moderate content that breaks community rules, I think that’s the mods responsibility/privilege, but if it breaks instance rules, I deal with the comment/post/pm myself. Some of the other admins I know moderate the same way.

Damn, just recently I started working on something similar.

Just implemented it for fun on my instance (lemmings.world). Sadly you need to be a user of that instance for it to work. When logged in you go to https://lemmings.world/rss/init, afterwards a link is shown (among other information) that looks something like https://lemmings.world/rss/4e6490fe0613f6e2e03cd420f71df14476e769b57604652921c1a7b2150f0888 - that is your personal RSS feed of stuff you saved with a URL that cannot be guessed automatically (the hash is entirely random).

It could be made to work for all instances, but that would take me a while. You can also ask the admins to install the app on their website (it’s open source and can be found at https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyPersonalRss).

I mean, Lemmy devs are tankies, who participate in misinformation sharing.

If you see some, report it. Some of us admins of other Lemmy instances take disinformation seriously.

Obviously we all should go back to the place we were before colonising any land. So back to single cell organisms of the sea. Hexbear and .ml people already have a head start.

I mean, what do you expect? Those two unwashed apes created Lemmy because no one wanted to listen to them on Reddit. Just try staying away from .ml, your online experience will be vastly improved.

If you fancy oversimplification, yes. Otherwise it’s of course more complex, but well, where’s the fun in that, right?

I don’t and I don’t want to, I hate it when everyone makes their own standard which means there is no real standard to speak of. There’s a xkcd exactly for that.

I’m using ActivityPub and that’s what I’ll be using as long as I feel it makes sense.

They could have made ActivityPub better, instead they made an incompatible protocol.

So it’s a centrally controlled network? That doesn’t really seem like proper federation protocol.

Or is it only to federate with their main instance? Meaning InstanceX and InstanceY can still federate with each other even without approval from the overlords.

Pressure your instance to join https://boost.lemy.lol and pressure your mods to add the community there (or you can add it yourself if the instance is already part of the project).

Not really that important, the first load might be really slow, but after that it should be smooth. The api responses will be slower, but it doesn’t matter that much.

Well, even if you ignore the author, the books are actually trash once you’re older than ~16 years (give or take a year or two). There are soooo many inconsistencies, that I could write like one full A4 page just from the top of my head (and I read it in 2007, so you bet I’ve forgotten most of it). I could write many more pages with some light Googling.

Should be simple to rewrite the bot to accept input from this! If you plan on doing so, let me know, I’ll add support for the applications table.

No idea, I didn’t do any api development with Reddit, it felt way too oversaturated already. But event subscriptions are a common thing for such use-cases, so my guess would be actually very similar to what I have created here with this package.