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tl;dr: The large central instances that host a majority of the content here are operated by people with a talent for software, but do not display a degree of emotional intelligence I feel is required for responsible stewardship of a social media platform.

tl;dr of the tl;dr: nobody stopping anything less than the most obvious harassment, sexism, ackchyually guys, reply guys, drama queens, and tantrums tantrums tantrums.

The result is that even if you choose sanity and block every instance that does not moderate the above behaviors you are left with too little of content to fully replace reddit.

I'm speaking mostly of lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.dbzer0.com, hexbear.net, and yes, lemm.ee (who's administrators at least admitted that they weren't capable of assuming the mantle of social responsibility).

I think Lemmy is a really smart idea. I have a lot of respect for people who choose to maintain the software host instances for free. I am not here to tell anyone how to run the instance they pay for, and I have no doubt these administrators are running exactly the kind of instances they want to be running. But as long as they remain in control of the majority of content, Lemmy will have a big obstacle for anyone without extreme levels of patience and inch thick skin.

Just so I'm clear I also think Reddit is garbage at keeping out the bad apples, and the community moderators on Reddit tend to be free speech absolutists too, but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content. Most of the "hot" sort on Lemmy is 10 year old memes trying to fake an illusion of activity, while also drowning out any actual human activity.

OK I've spoken enough. Take my 2c or leave it. I hope future administrators and moderators can identify and have the backbone to stand up to this sort of thing but maybe I'm asking too much of volunteers. All I can say for now is that in it's current state Lemmy isn't for me.

I'll probably check back in a year. See you 'round the web ✌🏼

tl;dr: The large central instances that host a majority of the content here are operated by people with a talent for software, but do not display a degree of emotional intelligence I feel is required for responsible stewardship of a social media platform.

tl;dr of the tl;dr: nobody stopping anything less than the most obvious harassment, sexism, ackchyually guys, reply guys, drama queens, and tantrums tantrums tantrums.

The result is that even if you choose sanity and block every instance that does not moderate the above behaviors you are left with too little of content to fully replace reddit.

I'm speaking mostly of lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.dbzer0.com, hexbear.net, and yes, lemm.ee (who's administrators at least admitted that they weren't capable of assuming the mantle of social responsibility).

I think Lemmy is a really smart idea. I have a lot of respect for people who choose to maintain the software host instances for free. I am not here to tell anyone how to run the instance they pay for, and I have no doubt these administrators are running exactly the kind of instances they want to be running. But as long as they remain in control of the majority of content, Lemmy will have a big obstacle for anyone without extreme levels of patience and inch thick skin.

Just so I'm clear I also think Reddit is garbage at keeping out the bad apples, and the community moderators on Reddit tend to be free speech absolutists too, but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content. Most of the "hot" sort on Lemmy is 10 year old memes trying to fake an illusion of activity, while also drowning out any actual human activity.

OK I've spoken enough. Take my 2c or leave it. I hope future administrators and moderators can identify and have the backbone to stand up to this sort of thing but maybe I'm asking too much of volunteers. All I can say for now is that in it's current state Lemmy isn't for me.

I'll probably check back in a year. See you 'round the web ✌🏼

I know this isn't the best community for this topic but Lemmy doesn't have anything more specific (yet). I want to know what's going on that I have this setting in FreshRSS:

And this behavior:

Something tells me it isn't a bug, just going over my head. I'm still new to selfhosting so it's not all clear to me how it works yet.

Dipping my toes in selfhosting lately, here is my ideal books setup:

• Upload books/comics/audiobooks to my server via Calibre-Web which serves as the main organization hub for all books.

• Have those files be recognized by Audiobookshelf and Komga (or Kavita)

Right now, Audiobookshelf works beautifully (as long as I don't check "store cover with book" which overwrites Calibres covers).

Komga/Kavita sort of work (in that I can see/read the files), but they won't organize into series even with properly configured ComicInfo.xml files. Is re-arranging the files manually (in a way that Calibre doesn't like) the only way for comics to be recognized as a series? Please tell me there's a workaround here I feel so close!

Has this ever happened before? I don't think I've ever seen Reddit "temporarily" ban a subredit like this.

The Fediverse is a great system for preventing bad actors from disrupting "real" human-human conversations, because all of the mods, developers and admins are all working out of a desire to connect people (as opposed to "trust and safety" teams more concerned about user retention).

Right now it seems that the Fediverses main protection is that it just isn't a juicy enough target for wide scale spam and bad faith agenda pushers.

But assuming the Fediverse does grow to a significant scale, what (current or future) mechanisms are/could be in place to fend off a flood of AI slop that is hard to distinguish from human? Even the most committed instance admins can only do so much.

For example, I have a feeling all "good" instances in the near future will eventually have to turn on registration applications and only federate with other instances that do the same. But it's not crazy to imagine that GPT could soon outmaneuver most registration questions which means registrations will only slow the growth of the problem but not manage it long-term.

Any thoughts on this topic?

A lot of internet publications today have videos in the middle of their articles that have nothing to do with the actual content. Example in this WIRED article here.

I'm wondering if there is an active blocklist for this kind of content? I already have uBlocks "annoyances" all subscribed. These videos slow down the pages and are too numerous to block individually.