ChatGPT is my programming rubber ducky for general stuff

They’ve been saying mod tools have been coming since the first blackout years ago. It’s fucking ground hogs day everytime mods get pissed

I’d also worry about people who have corporate shit on there. Anyone who uses this as a tool should probably delete their chats and change their password, even if you don’t have anything proprietary or ground breaking in there just as a precaution

I imagine the frequency response curve is going to be a trash heap on these things. Mids? Who needs em?

Yea. I’m going to be honest, I disagree with this decision immensely. There just aren’t enough posts and comments here alone to really keep my whole lemmy experience here.

The whole point of federation is to be able to branch out as I see it. Half of the communities I’m subbed to are on the places being banned, so it sorta breaks the whole point of federation to me at least. I get why mods are doing it and think it’s definitely their right to do so, but as an end user, it reaaaally sucks and will likely make me make an account elsewhere as my primary.

There are a lot of assholes on the internet, and I get wanting to have a space free of that. As a trans woman of 10 years now, trust me, I have gotten harassment online and off it. For me at least, I personally err on the side of having more freedom to look into places even if that means dealing with a couple of assholes. The mods say that strangers don’t walk in off the street and start trolling - from experience, I can say that is just not quite true. At some point, people really have to just roll with it and keep a positive attitude in the face of it. It’s better to deal with assholes from time to time to go out and have fun rather than sit at home.

I worry that a space like this can stifle a good thing by wanting to be too thorough. Shit always slips thru cracks, and while I get that it can suck for some, heavy restriction just kills the whole thing. In some ways, it just feels like some of the decisions here are very kid-glovey. Like, at least in subs like asktrans or mtf or other parts on reddit where trolls loved to comgregate, downvotes were how the community itself self regulated trolls - we don’t even have that option here. I’m not sure how I feel about such hands on moderation - it doesn’t give good faith users a ton of freedom

They have the right to do so, but it probably shows I don’t quite fit with the ethos of the instance.

I’m not a lawyer in the slightest, but wouldn’t stuff like that be grounds for a mistrial?

There’s a bug where that isn’t showing up

If you’re on desktop, I made a style that uses the Stylus add on help the UI not look like shit

https://userstyles.world/style/10309/densify-for-lemmy

Queue the “internet people are a vocal minority” saying. Unfortunately, it really is true. How anyone can pre-order after fo76 is absolutely bonkers to me

yea, kbin is definitely less active

That’s exactly how I feel. Even just the way comments were structured was weird, let alone the idea of subreddits

It seems people are landing all over the place. I’m seeing raddle.me, tild.es, here, and discord being the main options.

I honestly don’t get why discord is getting looked at. It’s a huge company that you don’t really want to trust with stuff either, and it’s not even a forum ffs

Meh, I think we keep it as decentralized as possible. The more weird and diverse experiments the better. Standardization on a platform leads to power imbalance between users and those that make the rules

Let’s be real - I don’t think reddit is going anywhere quite yet, even after this. It’s going to get worse and worse while heavily active users and mods start to leave and stuff, but it’s shambling corpse will still exist for a long time in a heavily advertised hell scape with shit to non-existant moderarion.

The truth of the matter is that while the real die hards like us will find a home in places like this, the vast majority will not care. Honestly, I’m fine with that. Most the people coming in to places like that aren’t the ones driving good discussion

Honestly, I just want instances that focus on niche interests. An instance for sports with communities of different leagues, instances for pc gaming with communities for amd/intel/Nvidia, etc

That way, main instances with more generic context like lemmy.ml or beehaw dont get clogged

That’s what I’m doing on mobile, but I’m coming from relay where things were a bit more compact and smooth. I imagine things will get more developed as time goes on.

/r/traa’s main mod said they and the subreddits gone for good after this since they’re tools won’t be there

I’m really hoping this is the comment to break the downvoted record

Spez on Christian (Apollo dev)

His “joke” is the least of our issues. His behavior and communications with us has been all over the place—saying one thing to us while saying something completely different externally; recording and leaking a private phone call—to the point where I don’t know how we could do business with him.

Spez is a fucking joke

He’s answered one question. I imagine that might be all he does. What a shit show - what does he even expect to do