Bozicus

They can't get at us yet, since they are not launching with ActivityPub, which they will need to interact with the Fediverse: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/adam-mosseri-says-metas-threads-app-wont-have-activitypub-support-at-launch/

We will have to make that decision at some point, ofc. I'm in favor of whatever keeps Zucc from getting his grubby little paws on anything I post.

He looks so forlorn! I would be seriously tempted to let him in, tbh.

You should see his shipmate, whose belt buckle is a rudder. He gets a lot of "...or are you just happy to see me?" comments.

So will some men. (I have a terrible urge to add "not all men," because in my head, that's funny. Halp).

...thank you, that is not one, but two (2) mental images I didn't expect to have today, lol. But I think Mary Magdalene had a MySpace, and then a Patreon, but repented before OnlyFans was cool.

Yup. And there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

When you go through self-check, you should really be tipping yourself.

I think Reddit would like to keep people clicking through from Google searches, which, apparently, Twitter doesn't, but I suppose they might. And yeah, I think bots are basically inevitable, one way or another.

On the other hand, with increasing amounts of bot-generated content on Reddit, it might not be long before no one wants to train LLMs on Reddit anymore, lol.

Fair point. To the extent that a ToS is legally binding, then yeah, it should be illegal to make it deceptive. But my understanding is that a lot of what's in a ToS policy has no legal force, and taking steps to regulate certain aspects of a ToS might have the unwanted effect of giving a ToS more legal recognition overall. It is possible to sign over certain rights to a company, but that doesn't mean the company can sue a customer for breaking the ToS when the customer isn't breaking any laws. So, Reddit can write all the menacing emails they like, but if someone feels like posting a bunch of softcore porn in a large subreddit, all Reddit can actually do is ban them, and if they go too hard on the threatening emails, they could get sued for harassment.

Thanks. <3 Yes, surgery is definitely in my future, it's just not easy to make it work logistically and financially. I should look into the TomboyX options again. "Two heavily divorced households" sounds like about what I'm looking for, though, sadly, "two estranged sovereign nations" is probably more accurate.

Not a lawyer, but your six-person site might be protected because it's so small. There are some laws that have to be enforced no matter how small the violation, but the penalty might be proportional to the size of violation, but there are also laws where the case just gets thrown out if no one is actually harmed. I don't know which it is in this case, but either way, I suspect no one bothers picking a legal fight super-tiny sites unless they have personal beef with the owner.

Someone posted a screenshot the other day with reviews that were incoherent in a way that only bots could achieve. I agree that there are borderline cases, but even eliminating those, there are some bots reviewing the Reddit app.