I have concerns about your vision of an ideal community, and I’m cynical of how far technical means can go in achieving that vision, but those concerns are overwhelmed by my support for experimentation. I agree with the prevailing opinion that moderation on Lemmy is hamstrung by a lack of adequate tools. Your project, even if it fails to achieve your vision, could serve as a stepping stone to some future success.

My primary concern is that you may be filtering people into whitelists and blacklists by feeding their comment history with a prompt into a Large Language Model like ChatGPT. If that’s the case, it is a deal-breaker. You cannot submit content via an LLM API and also avoid having that text absorbed by the model as training data. Since you would be submitting the comments of other people, this violates the principles of respect and consent. Many people exited corporate social media for Lemmy to protest this hoovering of their data by ‘AI’ companies; while some have gone as far as to add an anti-AI clause as a comment footer, it should be assumed that every Lemmy commenter does not consent to their intellectual labor being exploited for the profit of tech capitalists unless they explicitly state otherwise. If SLRPNK endorsed a moderation tool that abused other Lemmy users in this way, we would quickly become a pariah instance.

When it comes to software, I’m a fan of transparency. I hope at some point you’re willing to share your code, though I acknowledge your reasons for keeping it obscure. I would advise you to be open at least about the mechanism your filter uses while hiding your parameters if you can, so that you can alleviate any concerns that your code is feeding Lemmy comments to an LLM.

I shared this in a comment recently and I’m wondering if it led to this post.

Maybe. I got it from @Ephera@lemmy.ml

Your comment has been removed due to using a slur. Please be more inclusive of our friends and allies with mental disabilities in the future.

The biodigester is really cool. Helping neighbors pick grapes is praxis.

Craigslist has a /zip channel in every region that’s usually pretty active with furniture takeaways and curb alerts.

That’s correct. We don’t expect or want SLRPNK to conquer the social media market, or even Lemmy. It wasn’t long ago that user engagement and active users was in decline across the Threadiverse since the all-time highs of the Reddit exodus. The numbers we’re seeing now suggest that SLRPNK, at least, has hit an inflection point, and we’ve been slowly growing over the last couple of months.

In my mind, this is the best possible scenario. Sudden, explosive growth puts intense stress on both the software and communities; there are still open software issues that have not been closed that were revealed the last time this happened. Continued decline suggests that at some point we will not be able to maintain critical mass, and the Threadiverse project will fail. Modest, incremental growth allows people time to improve and adapt the software, and develop the community management skills that are the reason people come here. I look forward to the day when the Fediverse unseats corporate media as the social media ecosystem of choice, but I don’t think this iteration of our section of the Fediverse is ready to do that yet.

It’s worth considering the rise of the Apache web server. It was significantly worse than the Microsoft web server that was the industry standard, in most ways but one - it was free and open source. Its name is a pun on the term patch-y, a description of the patchwork improvements and bug fixes that it received from coders across the world. It continued to grow in popularity with hobbyists and specialists, but that didn’t register on the market share surveys. But at some point, the collection of patches became undeniably better than the market leading software. That’s the point when the ‘takeoff’ became visible.

The features that made that possible are also true of the Threadiverse softwares. They’re free and open source. They are attracting new contributors who are adding life to the community and features to the software. The tools are improving with time, and we have a critical mass of members who find the existing infrastructure sufficient enough to spend their time here. I think that’s what is needed for one day the software and community quality to be undeniably better than anything that corporate media can muster.

Other spaces for women on the Threadiverse:

• !feminism@beehaw.org
• !deuxchromosomesx@jlai.lu
• !witches@lemmy.ml
• !adhdwomen@lemmy.world
• !womenwithautism@lemmy.world
• !badwomensanatomy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !women@lemmy.world
• !mtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone
• !wlw_memes@lemmy.world
• !feminisme@jlai.lu

Thanks to @punkisundead for their help with the list.

University of Texas at Austin yesterday.

It should be noted that not only buying their food benefit Israel, it is often grown on internationally recognized Palestinian land stolen with violence by Israeli settlers. Centuries old olive orchards could have been uprooted to bring you those pomegranates.

Counter-example: when the IWW fought the Zapatistas.

TLDR: The IWW had been so long suppressed by Mormons and the Salvation Army, that when the syncretist Zapatistas approached their strongholds carrying crosses instead of anarchist symbols, they identified them as just more footsoldiers of the capitalist class.

My new Exxon Alarm Clock has really connected me to nature. The requirement that I sleep with the window open to prevent carbon monoxide buildup has transformed my relationship with the outdoors, and I now have a deeper understanding of the feral wildlife in my neighborhood.

Murdered for four trays of meat: The uncle and nephew killed in Brazil for shoplifting

1999 Seattle is a great example of this. Anti-globalization became part of mainstream media vocabulary, the organization saw enormous cost overruns, and another conference has not been held in a US city since.

It also achieved Martin Luther King and Gandhi style aims - pissing off the kind of people that reveal the violence of the system in situations where complacent people can more easily recognize it and sympathize with the oppressed. The city has settled with over a hundred activists, and a federal jury ruled that demonstrators’ fourth amendment rights had been violated.

Ambulance service is fucking expensive. This is part of the reason why “give all the homeless houses” is the cheaper solution.

When a post gets enough points, it does the Lemmy equivalent of “hitting the front page” and comment character becomes indistinguishable from a brigade. Most of the people commenting on this post aren’t from the Slrpnk.net instance. Check out the locals who are though – excellent people every one – @stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net, @poVoq@slrpnk.net, @punkisundead@slrpnk.net, @j_roby@slrpnk.net. These people are making this instance great.

Also, a shout out to the the nice people from other instances - I see you, and you are awesome: @Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works, @ondoyant@beehaw.org, @257m@lemmy.ml, @TheFriar@lemm.ee, @Maeve@kbin.social, @rockSlayer@lemmy.world, @Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone - thanks for contributing.

"We make the community by defending it: Calling police on people that don’t have a house is a violent act to those seeking shelter in the community they belong to."