Seriously, I was about to say that’s not a good reason to use Mastodon at all…

Shorts should have been a different app in the first place

Reddit is one website with hundreds of millions of users. Lemmy is software that powers multiple tiny platforms.

I hate that something so clever and cool is for a cryptocurrency advertisement

it would be really hard to remove anything “from Lemmy” since “Lemmy” is just software and doesn’t host any content.

AI doesn’t have to be perfect, it just needs to be more profitable than with human labor.

That was actually super helpful, thank you.

That’s cool, it just… does those things? How does it connect to those apps? I can’t even get Gemini to set a reminder and that’s on a Google device.

OP said coding AND “some automation”, what is being automated?

The short answer is no. 99% of users are on BlueSky. There do exist a few satellite and single-user “instances” but it’s important to know that AT Protocol “instances” don’t really have the same freedoms as an ActivityPub instance.

Just curious, what does “some automation” entail? I thought LLMs could only work with text, like summarize documents and that sort of thing.

The author wrote five articles today I’m pretty sure this is AI

Same, very seamless. So far I’ve only encountered one game (requires EA launcher) that didn’t run.

There’s an easy solution to that: I’m pretty sure on Lemmy (not sure about Piefed) admins can see who downvoted. So it’s just a matter of mods/admins having and enforcing rules that facilitate conversation.

Just report it when you see it happening!

I understand their reasoning. There is a (good) argument to be made that orgs like this should stay on Twitter if only to remind people to delete Twitter (I believe Cory Doctorow does this with his account). It seems like they thought this through.

I’m not talking about engineering a problem away. I’m saying it can’t be engineered away and requires human adults in the room (moderators in this case) to handle bad behavior.

Accepting the presence of toxicity as a fact of life does nothing more than attract more toxicity.

I’m not trying to put words in your mouth, but it sure seems like you’re saying that toxicity can inevitably be found in every little gesture in our daily life, including internet platforms, which is a narrative I disagree with.

People can have a fight on the street, or in a pub, in a shop, at work, or wherever

Pretty much all pubs and shops I know quickly expel and ban people who fight there. If those places allowed fighting (as many internet platforms do) users looking for a fight would eventually gravitate there, and people looking to discuss peacefully will go elsewhere.

Do you really think tech is the issue?

No, I’m saying people are the issue. Toxicity is not something that can be found everywhere, it only pops up where it’s allowed to flourish.

My belief is that toxicity online is like building a six lane highway through a residential neighborhood. If you build the infrastructure to support more cars, and the law allows speeding you’re going to get more cars (and more car accidents).

If you build platforms that don’t allow cars/limit their behavior where people are trying to have a polite conversation, you’ll see quiet more thoughtful modes of transportation and fewer innocent bystanders get hurt.

Wow that analogy worked pretty well.

Beehaw’s admin and mod team is a great example of how strong moderation encourages, not discourages, good conversation.