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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yep. I want to federate and block who I want to federate and block. Large instance admins need to make compromises for practical reasons, but I don't. My personal instance has no boards, so I don't have to deal with problematic users from other instances either. If an instance is particularly awful, I can just not visit them until I have time to switch to my admin account and defederate it, there's no urgency.

Plus, I thought it would be easier to get my friends to switch if they had an admin they could literally call if they ran into problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If an artist's vision is sexualized children, maybe that artist needs an eye exam.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Knowledge is ordering a martini because you want gin. Wisdom is specifying a "gin martini" to the bartender.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Wtf why. There's no karma on lemmy to farm!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Because we have surrendered so much control of our lives to these companies we can hardly envision an alternative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There's been a few posts on it, including one where the OP intentionally voted the post up with an army of bots to demonstrate the problem.

If you run an instance with closed registration you'll probably receive a bunch of incredibly similar, clearly AI generated, applications from bot accounts. They seem to prefer existing instances over spinning up bot instances, to avoid defederation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

they haven't solved it yet

Google hasn't solved it yet either. You've probably all experienced the deluge of AI generated garbage with almost zero pertinent information clogging up search queries. And those aren't even politically motivated. It's getting harder and harder to even find actual information from actual humans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've never used ChatGPT (the workflow sounds tedious) but I have used GitHub copilot for personal stuff. The free ChatGPT has weird rights to your queries, whereas GH copilot doesn't snarf up your code. It genuinely saves a ton of time if you treat it like an in-line Stack Overflow query. It never gets it 100% right, but it can crap out boilerplate like nobody's business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Some of these stores are planning to have food trucks and other event stuff during the strike to raise money for SBWU. So if you're near one, check it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sick, thanks!

Edit: It would be awesome to have some of these queries built into the admin panel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been running a private instance for about a week and would like to know some of these too. My understanding is the banned users are users that other instances ban, and that information also federates to you. For the other two questions, afaik dumping the db is the only way to check users? And I'm not sure about the timeouts. I find it helps to periodically restart the lemmy service(s) on a cron.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

A lot of people here in the US have bought into this as their retirement strategy. The value needs to go up, so they can downsize and ride the leftover cash for the rest of their life. If the number doesn't go up, they can't retire. This forces otherwise normal people to become very, very, invested in ensuring real estate is an asset with value that outpaces what people can afford. It's a ponzi scheme.

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