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  • The amount of domain knowledge to even begin to parse what the fuck you’re talking about is absurd.

    Secondly, why would anyone want this?

    I’m glad you’ve found yet another project to look nice for your github portfolio, but maybe be up front about that instead of drowning everyone in near gibberish and what seems like poorly written advertisement.

    “Hey, I’ve made another quasi-social media network leveraging the fediverse, AI, and a programming language made to resemble normal english. Check it out!”

    Otherwise this is just blatant buzzword salad. I’m going to guess you’re also using AI to get project idea involving the latest buzzwords? Maybe even using AI to write this psuedo ad-copy?

    Again, more power to you if you’re trying to build a portfolio/github/resume where you can say that you’ve “created numerous projects leveraging federated social media and AI”, but just be up front about what you’re doing when you post about it here please.

    No one needs more shit pretending to be something it isn’t. It’s okay for your little portfolio project to be just that.



  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFediverse@lemmy.worldfedi 4chan?
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    4chan’s style as a concept doesn’t work too well with the concepts of the rest of the fediverse. There’s no benefit to federating anonymous image and text posts across multiple servers and merging those feeds together. Especially if the content is meant to be ephemeral, why are you wasting bandwidth replicating it? Hell, with the average lemmy server’s replication delay the original content would be gone before it could replicate anywhere.

    There’d also be no reason for each “instance” to not be its own separate entity with no federation. It’s not like 4chan really does crossposting between boards, you just can link between them.

    Also, having spent far more time on the chans than is in any way healthy, there still isn’t any real solution for good or consistent moderation. Federation doesn’t inherently make moderation better or easier, if anything it complicates things in that regard.

    Edit, additional info: Certain threads on /vg/ have been dealing with their own thread specific trolls for literal years with no mod action. Some of the threads have figured out rough schedules of mods based off what type of shit gets removed and when.

    Federation is not a magical pill for better quality. I direct you to explodingheads, or plenty of other examples of shit instances documented by fediseer.



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  • I have literally never heard of this group before now, and my immediate question is "What do they bring to the table? How important can they be if I’ve never heard of them? In what universe can any organization related to the fediverse justify looking for 1.3 million dollars in funding‽”

    The two systems they offer (as listed in the article) Fedicheck and CCS, as far as I am aware, already have open source alternatives in db0’s Fediseer and whatever his anti-CSAM tool is called.

    They also offer… guidelines for fediverse moderators? Not frameworks for bots or automoderation tools. But their opinions on how others should moderate spaces that this group doesn’t actually run.

    Did anyone out there ask for an advisory group for something that thrives on it’s individuality?


    Maybe I’m too used to the old reprehensible internet. Maybe I’m too used to spaces that keep an intentional level of friction against new joining outsiders.

    Maybe I’m missing something critical here and I’ve only been exposed to db0’s work being on his Lemmy instance.

    I would love to be provided with more information on this group, and direct examples of value they’ve provided to the Fediverse.


    But at a simple gut check, this comes across like a group of self righteous people who rather than run their own instances, want to be paid to tell others how to run instances.

    Anything this group is doing should be open source, should be well advertised, and should be well discussed Fediverse-wide. The fact that I’m only first hearing about this group during what is effectively an e-begging session sets off alarms.

    Lemmy has just had it’s first round of spambots in DMs. Does the fediverse now have a group of self righteous non-admin non-mods trying to make something they can make money from and put on a resume?

    This would not be the first instance of resume stuffing “guidance organizations” to try and enforce themselves in an online space/open source project.


    At absolute best, assuming this is a group known in Mastodon and the various non-lemmy fedi-spaces: This would not be the first time some group that is deeply invested and well known in Mastodon crosses the border to Lemmy to find that despite sharing protocol, there are differences in culture.

    Just because your Scout Troop and the AA meetings use the same building, that doesn’t mean that AA members have any interest in supporting the scouts, or in having the scouts tell them how they should run AA meetings.


    Let me be clear: I want to be proven wrong and for this group to be a pleasant surprise of a worthwhile force for good and the continued growth of the Fediverse.

    But I’m also being honest about my reaction to some group I’ve never heard of before claiming to be so vital to the Fediverse that them maybe not getting $1.3M is something that I should care enough about to donate.



  • A user blocking an instance does not block the users from that instance from interacting with the user who blocked.

    It’s not well explained, but my understanding is that an instance block just prevents communities from that instance, and posts made by users on thay instance, from showing for the user that blocked the instance. Comments from users of that instance still show for the blocking user, and the block is one way anyway.






  • Speak for yourself.

    There were a lot of people that looked for a Reddit alternative not because of particularly strong feelings politically or towards corporations in general but instead because Reddit broke their main method of interacting with Reddit (third party mobile apps) while simultaneously completely breaking the moderator tools to quell the shitstorm and maintain quality discussion.

    I left Reddit because I saw it going further to shit faster than it ever had before, and they communicated loud and clear that they didn’t want users like me that cared about having control and options over how we interacted with the site.

    None of my accounts there ever had a single comment removed by a mod, although I had been preemptively banned from multiple subs due to posting in others.