Unfortunately, you fell afoul of the most common of forum errors. You didn’t check the community.

Now, while that community doesn’t have a rule about that twat, and has rules against that kind of rhetoric in general (as in violent rhetoric), you do have a degree of responsibility of vibe checking a place before you jump in.

You also have to take into account instances on the fediverse. You can’t just roll into .ml and preach capitalism, and you can’t go into a blahaj and defend a known bigot. It’s never going to end well.

I do think the ban was a tad much overall, though a temporary cool off one would have been fine. A temp ban based on the tone and phrasing of your comments would be totally justified.

And the reason given was absolutely bullshit. Rowling stan does nothing useful, it just sets up an antagonistic paradigm of mod vs users instead of a controlled curation.

Despite that, I can’t see a PTB being the right call, but it wasn’t a total YDI either. The extent of the action was too far, but done in good faith despite that

Look, when I picked up the case, they swore it was only tribbles!

It would work better with Prozac. There’s enough folks that know xanax isn’t an antidepressant, and is instead a depressant in one sense, that it falls flat

Don’t forget size factor, ease of placement, etc. Even mini PCs tend not to be designed with placement near a big TV in mind. Consoles are by default

Fuck 'em

I hate sony now, but consoles have their place in gaming. If the companies didn’t fuck you over, that place would be even bigger because the convenience factor alone is a huge plus.

But don’t conflate shitty corporate behavior with the underlying concept. The ps5 is a great console. It’s just not really your console the way it should be because of sony

Dammit! No wonder I’m not wanted!

I’m not sure this is a dad joke. Not a bad one, but not sure it has the level of smartassery necessary

Ima have to just wait until a neighbor gets a machine and rob them the way memory prices are fucking things

Come on, if you think you’re hard enough!

Broforce is ana absurd and delightful train wreck :)

Much appreciated

I mixed missed the memo I guess, no idea what it means if it isn’t the file type

Aquaman needs a tan

I hate to agree with a billionaire, but he’s right. Currently steam is not a monopoly at all, and hasn’t yet gotten so dominant that it amounts to one.

But they are the single most dominant outlet, and are in the first stages of having an ability to control the entire market in unfair ways to the point of crushing competition. It won’t be long before they do have that ability completely. And we can’t just trust the billionaire because he’s shown an unusual degree of user focused choices overall. Even if he’s perfect, he ain’t immortal, and as soon as he’s not in control, there will be fuckery

I really can’t find any differences in performance or functionality other than those that cooks just as well be from the different platforms

Aight, that’s a great response :)

What I’m taking away from that is that the method is more like what auto mod on reddit did than a separate piece of software running. That, as such, it’s something admins have full control over beyond just choosing to have it in place or not; as in an llm would be a closed box with limited ability to influence what goes on inside. And that it’s serving pretty much as a filter as opposed to an automated decision maker.

Which is exactly what the fediverse needs tbh, assuming I’m understanding what’s being used correctly.

With that assumption in place, my only remaining “bullshit” is in a little more transparency on exactly what it is. Not the details of keywords and such that would allow bots to easily bypass, but as in whether it’s some kind of custom built code y’all have put together, vs an externally sourced program. If it’s external, then it should definitely be made known where it comes from so that prospective users can make a decision based on that.

I don’t make them, but I’ve trained with them and enjoy them as a hobby, and I also die inside a little when I see them

It’s not power tripping, as you said in a comment.

But it is bullshit, and they can fuck right off with the “too much detail, done locally” shit.

Look, I’m all for auto mod tools. I’ve been vocal about it being why I would never mod a large community on the fediverse. There’s just too much assholery online to not have a tool that filters out the assholes before anyone else is exposed to it.

But, with reddit, anyone could look at the documentation on what auto mod could do. You knew, if you wanted, what was an wasn’t possible. You could easily figure out why your comment or post ran afoul of it. Despite the complaints aboue its misuse, it was the thing that made modding a subreddit halfway bearable. And, when used appropriately, it made being part of a sub a much better experience.

But this? The lack of transparency about what’s going on, what the tool does, how it does it, just ain’t cool. It flies in the face of what the fediverse is supposed to be.

It’s llm/ai surveillance without even source available access so a given user can decide to opt the fuck out.

Like I said, a tool like that is a good thing, not a bad one. But not being open is abhorrent for this use.

Edit: for any stragglers, do read the responses made by people from the instance in question before raising any hell. They seem to be on board with providing good info to possible new users and informing current users that might object.

I favor ironfox, which is easiest to find via fdroid. It’s very similar to librewolf in goals and settings to enhance privacy

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