AI is a useful tool, for all its flaws and negative externalities.

“If you ignore the negatives for everyone else and just focus on the positives for me, it’s pretty great”

Mhmm. Right, ok.

People who want to believe Anthropics AI is powerful.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

avoid all people

lol don’t threaten me with a good time

It’ll go the same way that Meta’s creeper glasses have. Seems cool at first but very quickly become socially toxic.

Oh, I see!

Yeah the internet was a different world in 2001, hardly any of the websites from that time are still running and those that are will have rebuilt themselves multiple times over, often changing url structure in the process.

I went to google.com and typed in “trump tallest building in Manhattan” and there it was.

This extension helps a lot - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nogoogleai/

The omarchy website lists them.

can’t comprehend how

A lot of people choose not to comment when they don’t understand what’s going on. Or if they comment, they ask questions.

There’s good reasons for that.

lemmy.ml and dbzer0 are silenced on piefed.social, which makes their communities hard to find.

But if you go to their url directly you can join them like normal:

https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

https://piefed.social/c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

There is no hardcoded instance block list. There are some instances that are defederated from initially when an instance is first created but the instance admin is told about this when it happens and they can change it by clicking around in the admin area. More info at https://join.piefed.social/2026/08/13/what-piefed-blocks-out-of-the-box-and-how-to-unblock-it/

Is this written by/with AI?

https://piefed.social/c/fediverse@piefed.social/p/2190040/who-decides-what-you-see-on-the-fediverse-a-look-at-voting-patterns

PieFed instance admins can set a limit to how many votes each account can cast each day. I set the default value for this at a level that 99% of us will never reach.

This pissed off some of the 1% (or people who thought they were the 1% but weren’t) so they spent weeks spreading FUD about it.

The treaties for landmines and nuclear weapons have had some effect. I think, maybe.

Ah, I forgot that Lemmy doesn’t block instances in comments. I just tested it and verified that is still the case.

Blocking individual users is hopeless. You need to block entire communities and instances.

2-3 times a week is nothing. 2-3 per day is completely fine.

It would only be used for the most flagrant accounts, ones with some level of automation - dozens of posts per day with almost no comments. That sort of thing.

I too find content on other networks (mostly Mastodon, occasional YouTube) and post them here. Often a few per day. But it’s all completely manual and I usually rewrite the description, add hashtags, etc. And I’ll interact with people who comment on the posts. Cross-pollination of content is normal and good.

There’s a point though, usually enabled by using some extra software tools like the one above, where someone ends up flooding their target communities, not responding to comments on the posts, looking inauthentic when they repost OC which plainly isn’t theirs and causing extra moderation work because their content is in the wrong places. Sanitation is the most obvious example of this but there are others.

Despite this, a lot of people upvote and comment on their posts. I don’t know if

1. they’re even aware of who the author is. Most apps do not emphasise this strongly so it’s easy to miss.
2. if they are aware then are they aware that the author is ignoring them and won’t learn from the feedback they’re getting?

… Or if they don’t care. Maybe they’re just content with the conversation in the comments without the OPs involvement. That’s valid (although not the kind of conversation I personally want to be a part of).

It’s probably a combination of don’t know and don’t care. For those people, labelling sanitation et al as a bot would seem heavy-handed. That’s why I’m leaning towards creating an in-between state, for these kinds of centaur accounts.

YSK that I’ve tagged all those accounts as bots on piefed.social.

Unlike on Lemmy, on PieFed people can choose to still see bot-generated posts but have them semi-transparent which makes them easy to scroll past OR interact with if you want. As well as the Lemmy option of just filtering them out entirely.

e.g. like this example:

I’ve also been thinking that a binary “this is a bot” or “this is human” flag is too limited and we need a third option - “this is a reposter” and people could choose to make-transparent, filter out or show their posts independently of the bot-or-not setting.

Very interesting and lots of detail on the 5 year plans. Thanks!

FYI every post you make is tagged as NSFW

This must have been going on for decades. Ridiculous, humans.