With previous Rexit’s like the API debarcle etc. many users were left looking for an alternative, but with decision fatigue and bad UX etc. most did not find the Fediverse a viable option.
What needs to still improve, how can we be ready this time?
Your comment seems if not outright wrong then at least imprecise.
The PieFed.social instance is very much against tankies, but the software can be tuned however the admin installing it wishes. Like how reddthat famously turned off downvoting, you can turn on or off any PieFed feature that you wish. So e.g. if someone disliked downvoting, there’s still a Lemmy server for them! The instances are very much different than the software.
One feature vaguely similar to what you describe is the user indicator icons. New user accounts (of <2 weeks iirc) have a label placed next to the usernames, so that people realize that they are talking with a newb. That does not block making posts or comments, just an icon next to the username (which any instance admin can disable if they want).
Likewise, people who receive 10x more downvotes than upvotes will have an icon placed next to their username. It won’t block submissions, just display that icon, so that someone is aware that they are about to reply to a known troll. It is not underhanded, not a secret, it is instead very open and thus overhanded. But indeed, if you don’t like it, then don’t use it. I’m sure there is a way to turn it off for someone’s user account (it might not be as simple as merely pressing a button in the settings).
Beyond that… I don’t know what you could mean. There is a feature, turned on by default, to automatically collapse or even automatically hide comments if their score falls below a certain threshold. I don’t personally use either of these options, so I disabled them by setting the threshold to a ridiculous value of -10000. However, they are there if someone wants them, and I don’t begrudge someone else doing whatever they feel is right.
Oh, maybe you mean the image filtering stuff? That has largely been debunked - yes there is some code that will do filtering, but what people failed to realize is that when wrapped inside an if() statement, it becomes optional - it only happens if the instance admin specifically selects that option to happen? And thus again, it’s a per-instance decision, not so much something mandated by the software.
But yeah, if you don’t enjoy PieFed, then by all means do not use it. I begrudge nobody their choice there. I just wanted to make sure that people have accurate information upon which to base their decision.
The instance itself. The admins, half of whom are openly tankies and actively participate in Hexbear troll campaigns, are all tech bros who love their my butt and will actively silence users who are critical of it.
a recent attempt to rewrite SQLite in Rust using AI. “It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right,” he said. It’s 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It’s a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless.”
Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. “That kills the whole system,” Deeks said. Smiley added: “The question here is if it’s all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They’re generally pretty good at risk profiling.”
@rimu "Fake it 'till you make it" does not work with artefacts. It may help you form habits, but if it's not your attitude that is the problem, but rather the tool, then "Fake it 'till you make it" *will lead to the emperors new clothes* .
@artifex
It's even worse than that: profilers rub your code 20-100 tubes slower, which, if performance is OKish to begin with is workable. 2000x too slow? Can't even profile!
So I got this bot that allows multiple people to curate a list of toots that are boosted by it, to create a nice topical account to follow.
Now I only need ideas what to boost haha :)
Congrats, you just reinvented FEP 1b12, the foundation for Lemmy, PieFed and Mbin.
@rimu not really no, but thanks for the snarky comment
For example, in one experiment, financial advisors were told that after receiving their investment recommendation, the client also sought advice from either another human financial advisor or an artificial intelligence system. The advisors then rated how motivated they felt about the situation and if it affected their willingness to continue working with the client.
Across all four studies, a clear pattern emerged: advisors were noticeably less motivated to work with clients who had also consulted AI. In fact, the negative reaction was stronger than when clients consulted another human advisor.
If someone at my job were to come to me with a question about my area of expertise, receive an answer, and go “well, I asked ChatGPT too, and they said something different, so I’m not sure what’s right”, I would absolutely never speak to that person again.
I’d probably go so far as to set up an email filter that sends everything from them straight to trash. If your judgment is so poor, we have nothing to discuss.
As long as it doesn’t become a life safety risk, go ahead and break a few things with ChatGPT, and I’ll roll back the changes and clean up the mess when you’re gone.
There comments have been reading sus af to me, but then this happened and it clenched it
Early on in its posting game, it posted the below to the linux .ml comm yesterday, where I crossposted it accordingly and tagged it because it seemed like OC. Then I stopped crossposting it’s posts because they were sus.
The post: https://suppo.fi/pictrs/image/0077ad9c-d9d3-483e-869c-364ff7944f73.png
Then today it commented at that very post: https://suppo.fi/pictrs/image/d81dc38a-1e7b-4069-829b-06df11e82a25.png
In reply to what would be their own OC, where their own user has been tagged
So yea, LLM bot lmao
Ohh PieFed can detect LLM bots now? NICE lmao
I’m not sure if this is the wrong place to post this; my apologies if it’s not.
Anyway, I have an inquiry about Mastodon replies seeming to not post to show up on Lemmy.
Earlier today I made a post on Mastodon and made it post to Lemmy as well, by @ing the community I wanted it to appear in. Here’s a link to the post on Mastodon, and here’s how it showed up on Lemmy. At first, everything seemed to work fine.
But something I noticed is that, though the Lemmy comments were visible to me on Mastodon, the reverse was not true: most of the Mastodon replies were not visible on Lemmy. So there seems to have been some federation issues there.
So my question is, does anyone know what caused this and if so how I can fix it?
Okay thanks for the info
Thanks for all the hard work you put in for making a create social network (Piefed) and helping grow the fediverse 🫡 I appreciate it. Keep fighting the good fight
I was asking Rimu, but good to get confirmation that it’s working for you at least :)
I see, that is understandable.
my dude (dudette?) , you’re doing an amazing job, so thank you
Sounds good to me!
Did you receive my email from last Thursday? Seems there might be some delivery problem.
I tested this. It works perfectly fine. We can implement this today and remove it when Mastodon supports threadiverse conversations better (I’ll try to make that happen.)
Wow that’s a really proactive response, thank you! Please keep me posted on how it goes
It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage, with bots accounting for more and more traffic. my butt has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what? Does “the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.
“Does the internet just get abandoned…?”
Nope. It just continues to suck. Soon you’ll need to verify your identity to be online. That’s life.
Orwell warned about Big Brother watching. Here we are.
I don’t think overthrowing capitalism will solve the problem of botnets and my butt enshitification. There are other reasons besides money to manipulate content on the internet - namely, power.
In fact, I might even suggest that one way to overthrow the “capitalist world order” would be to lean into the enshitification.
Imagine life in twenty or thirty years. Today’s children are now all grown up. They are mostly moronic, AI-dependent automatons. Because not many people want to have kids, the U.S. has an increasing aged population. Due to corruption, there’s been no meaningful investment in infrastructure. No manufacturing, no exports, nothing to offer the world.
The snake eats its own tail.
“When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority,” the blog post about the layoffs states. “Within hours, we got a taste of what we’d only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated my butt agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn’t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they’d find us.”
The company said it banned tens of thousands of accounts, deployed internal tooling, and worked with external vendors, but it wasn’t enough. For a site that relied on user votes to rank content, an uncontrollable bot problem meant those votes couldn’t be trusted.
reddit barely could keep up witht he bots, although they developed more sophisticated means to block the lowest hang fruits.
Yup. Banning a bot account just means another bot will take its place. Shadow ban the bots, count them as actual users, profit.
