I mean, I am not fond of the head admins running Lemmy.ml, but you should just do what I do and block the instance. Don’t know what you use to browse Lemmy but I use Connect for Lemmy on Android and it supports instance blocking.
No reason to prevent other people on your instance from interacting with instances they want to. Not everyones ideologies have to match your own, and different people want to see different content.
I take it you’ve never interacted with the head admins there? I had the displeasure once and they aren’t really open to conversation. Once they have decided on something, then they won’t actually accept any sort of discussion, you’ll just be talking to a brick wall.
Nothing is stopping someone from scraping data off of Lemmy. It has probably already been happening.
We built a data set of 45 million comments on news articles on the Huffington Post website between January 2013 and February 2015.
I am no expert but I feel like this is a really bad data set choice for this study.
Lemmy has pretty lousy security in general, so really nobody should be storing any data on their Lemmy account that is important. Password, username, and any personally identifying information should never be shared across multiple sites or with other users, but this is just cybersecurity 100.
Don’t criticize Linux
There is a market for everything. But people would probably figure out that none of the posts are real so nobody would use it anymore. Unless you made it into a game where you roleplay as a forum admin, somewhat akin to HyperSpace Outlaw.
Of that one problematic community, there are like 6 users. Just block the users and the community. Very easy.
Why should we punish people that decided to create an account on that instance just because of the like 6 people posting content you don’t like by removing the other user’s right to access this instance via their account on that instance?
Just because you don’t like the content doesn’t mean you have to instantly defederate. I am getting really tired of this increasing trend of wanting to immediately defederate just because some users don’t like or agree with the content. I don’t like that content either, but it is so easy for me as an individual user to block content I don’t like to see.
Unless the users on that instance are maliciously posting illegal content in droves onto other instances or something, there is no reason defederation should be considered. Defederation is a last resort option, not a first response to something you don’t like or agree with.
With the way the Beehaw admins were acting back when they defederated, I wouldn’t expect Beehaw to ever refederate.
They were happy and quick to defederate and seemed proud of it.
Yet.
ChatGPT is excellent for suggesting an idea that I haven’t thought of. I can then use that as a springboard to write out something that works. Asking it if there are optimizations also can yield quite good results. I find I spend less time debugging on average, but not by a large margin.
I am not complaining about FOSS, or even saying its bad. I am saying the people that look at FOSS as if it was their god are annoying. The people that just cannot shut up and have to shove it in your face. The people that start conversations with “I use Arch” or “Godot is the best.” Thats what I am talking about.
Look, I might have switched to Godot if all the people recommending it weren’t so annoying about it. Effort or not, the vast majority of those people did not contribute to the software, so it wasn’t even their fight. They just adopted a weird oppression fetish into their personality and decided to make FOSS into their god.
If someone was wronged by “Big GameDev” or whatever and developed their own FOSS replacement, then good on them, I am happy to listen about it. But the large majority of these users didn’t do that, but act like they did. Just be normal, please. Being so overly annoying about it isn’t going to attract more people, existing users being annoying are going to push away potential new users.
The one thing you can count on Godot users for is that they act exactly like Arch Linux users.
I agree, but thats not how Lemmy was programmed. I feel like Lemmy has other privacy issues, but its better than the alternative of Reddit.
Well, I certainly don’t think anyone should be able to look at anyone else’s vote or comment history or anything. It nearly always leads to off-topic arguing. Perhaps simply allowing users to opt-out would suffice.
Nope. I agree that this type of information should not be publicly accessible by default, for privacy reasons. But no, this is not how Lemmy works. If you aren’t happy with it then this may not be the platform for you, as it doesn’t seem like this will change.
I remember about 10 months ago or so ChatGPT used to output some surprisingly top-tier code. I’d ask it to create a method with some required functionality and it would output the code, fully commented and everything. I didn’t have to edit the code, it just worked, and it was more or less efficient.
Now? I can’t even get it to write comments for code I give to it.
Instance blocking in Connect for Lemmy also hides all comments from all people in the blocked instance. It doesn’t make them disappear like blocking a user does, but the comment appears with the body text replaced by a button that allows you to optionally unhide the message (like how Discord used to hide messages from blocked users).
Defederation should literally be a last resort option IMO. Otherwise you end up like Beehaw: isolated on an island away from like 90% of the Fediverse. Great for moderation but terrible for discoverability and growth.
Lemmy is pretty much the Linux version of Reddit, and as someone who has used Linux before, it is up to the end user to do all the legwork with Linux as opposed to something like Windows which is pretty much plug and play. Lemmy does best when it gives as many options to its users as possible, including preferring local user instance blocking as compared to defederating.
As an example, I like anime. Let’s say hypothetically that you don’t like anime and that I have an account on your instance. And let’s say you hate anime, actually. You want your instance to defederate from ani.social (and any other instance that hosts anime content) because you hate anime, but I don’t because I like the memes and discussions from there. How do you resolve this? Now think about what happens with an instance that hosts content that is of a different political ideology than you. Its really the same problem. By calling for defederation you effectively say that your opinions and viewpoints are the only correct ones, and that everyone else on your instance of choice needs to align to your viewpoint. In this case, this is why it would be better for you, the user with the problem with those instances, to locally block that content.
I can understand if a particular instance is so full of spam bots or people that attack the instance with illegal post content, such as posting CSAM anywhere and everywhere, but in those cases it would be up to the instance admins, and a responsible admin will make a post explaining whats going on and in some cases even ask for the community to give input on it.