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I think people shorten it based on the domain name, so I doubt this would work.

Not gonna debate your conspiracy theories, mate.

Eh, was worth a shot

I could arrange for a full export endpoint with all known users and their flair which could be only called once in a while and cached. I also don't expect all fairs to be visible for each user but maybe the first one and the rest expanded on mouse over. I could also mark on flair as the most significant per user. Would that work?

We have a standard in our instance where we tag such images with [GenAI], you can do the same

why, yes I do

FYI you forgot to add the GenAI tag

Oh right. fixed

people will think you're talking about dragonball z :D

It means their application registration did not include a keyword I know as an anarchist/pirate/foss.

You can vote without supporting the instance, but your vote is tallied as the generic "local community" vote which has less impact on the result. To ensure the instance votes are not manipulated easily, we want to ensure the people voting are the ones most invested into it. One way to do that is by considering the ones who are supporting its running costs (any amount will work actually). However we also allow non-monetary supporters a full vote, so long as they display their investment into the instance by other ways, such as effort in posting, helping others etc. This is why we have the and flairs. The first one can be assigned to others by anyone supporting the instance, but the latter only by mods.

My take is that we leave some leeway to moderators of our comms to handle them as they see fit, because they are the ones growing them primarily and we need them to feel somewhat in control and invested for all the effort they're putting it.

There's limits of course, but I don't feel their actions exceed those limits, as those bans don't really affect the users being banned, and if it wasn't for the modlog and some notifications people get about it, they wouldn't even notice as they don't ever interact with those comms except downvoting them in the occasional /all post.

We also need to be cognizant on why some mods take such seemingly "extreme" reactions. Not everyone has as thick a skin as to tolerate a constant dogpile of bad faith arguments, and those people still deserve to exist in the internet and in the threativerse, and for their mental health, these people might need tighter control of their comms to prevent people who would cause them mental anguish.

The topic of GenAI is very heated and we're the only instance which is explicitly not againt GenAI as a technology (but still against corporate GenAI and its hype). Because of how hated it is, especially in the more radical spaces, we constantly get hate drive-by comments in every post containing any sort of GenAI image, and when they can't comment, they downvote. The mods actions are colored by these interactions and their attempts to combat these behaviours. Point is, these comms and our instance don't act in a vacuum, so the larger reaction to GenAI needs to be taken into account to understand.

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