Hyperz

There's lemmynsfw.com as well now.

None of the big ones were allowing NSFW posts on their instances, but anyone can create an instance that does allow it 🙂

It never seizes to amaze me how many people are seemingly unable to understand such a simple concept. Either that or they just don't want to understand. Considering the type of people that like to pull the freedom of speech card I'm guessing it's probably the latter.

This might work against very generic bots, but it won't work against specialized bots. Those wouldn't even need to parse the DOM, just recreate the HTTP requests.

I can already hear the CPA/affiliate marketing bots spinning up lol.

Wait, is Beehaw moving away from Lemmy or something? 😵‍💫

Edit: nvm just saw the big thread about it.

What if you have 100s or 1000s of such instances? At some point you defeat the entire purpose of the federation.

This is what I'm worried about. As the fediverse grows and gains popularity it will undoubtedly become worth targeting. It's not hard to imagine it becoming a lucrative target for things like astroturfing, vote brigading etc bots. For centralized sites it's not hard to come up with some solutions to at least minimize the problem. But when everyone can just spin up a Lemmy, Kbin, etc instance it becomes a much, much harder problem to tackle because instances can also be ran by bot farms themselves, where they have complete control over the backend and frontend as well. That's a pretty scary scenario which I'm not sure can be "fixed". Maybe something can be done on the ActivityPub side, I don't know.

Done. Looking forward to the results :)

That's great news 👏. I really hope most of the subs currently participating end up going indefinite. Especially with Spez shrugging off the whole thing in the media.

It seems to me like StackOverflow is really shooting themselves in the foot by allowing AI generated answers. Even if we assume that all AI generated answers are "correct", doesn't that completely destroy the purpose of the site? Like, if I were seeking an answer to some Python-related problem, why wouldn't I go straight to ChatGPT or similar language models instead then? That way I also don't have to deal with some of the other issues that plague StackOverflow such as "this question is a duplicate of <insert unrelated question> - closed!".

Hopefully he stays in China then 🙉

Man that whole situation really sucks. Reddit was by far my most visited site before they decided to light the house on fire. On mobile I always used Boost because the official app is terrible and (at least the last time I looked at it) would drain my battery like it was nothing even when the app was closed. RIP. At least we've got Lemmy. I just wish these 3rd party apps would take their users to the fediverse instead of shutting down entirely. As a developer it really sucks when you have to shut down a project you've put so much work into.

I can't think of a better way to put more gasoline on the fire. If it happens I hope the users revolt and completely shit up any sub where they pull this stunt. Let's see how long those new mods last then, and how many advertisers they lose.

But then they'd have to break up with their AI girlfriends/boyfriends 🤔. ::: spoiler spoiler I wish I was joking. :::

Wish I had the time and resources. I'm in the middle of developing a 🤪 site (not in Reddit/forum format) so I already have my plate full haha.

Been on Reddit for over 10 years and this move finally made me go look for alternatives that don't hate their own users. Reddit was already going downhill fast the last couple of years, and this move was the last drop for me. If they want to Digg their own hole so be it. Only thing I haven't found so far is an alternative to the NSFW side of Reddit.

I’m Hyperz and I come from the land of waffles, chocolate, fries and beer (Belgium). Was a reader of Reddit for about 15 years and a member for about 11 of those years. Before that I used to be very active on some niche forums until Reddit went Pac-Man on traditional forums. With the way Reddit was going the last few years, and especially now with the incoming API changes, I’ve decided I don’t want to support that anti-user platform anymore. I’m glad I found out about Lemmy (can’t believe I hadn’t heard of it before!) because not only does it look like a viable alternative to Reddit, it also brings back some of the aspects I’ve been missing from the old forum days.

I'm getting frequent errors too. Plus disappearing comments. I'd imagine it's because of the increased traffic.

For me I'd say it was probably playing Carmageddon 2 at my friend's place. I think that was also the first time I played a 3D-accelerated game (Voodoo).

Time to sit back, relax, and watch the world Reddit burn 😎 🍿

Well that surely wouldn't backfire in the most spectacular way ever. I mean, it's not as if Reddit has ever had any vote brigading and botting issues, right? Right?

Yeah that's a good point. I have no idea how you'd go about solving that problem. Right now you can still sort of tell sometimes when something was AI generated. But if we extrapolate the past few years of advances in LLMs, say, 10 years into the future... There will be no telling what's AI and what's not. Where does that leave sites like StackOverflow, or indeed many other types of sites?

This then also makes me wonder how these models are going to be trained in the future. What happens when for example half of the training data is the output from previous models? How do you possibly steer/align future models and prevent compounding errors and bias? Strange times ahead.