BotDefense was great. About 10% of mod activity on r/monero was done by it and with great accuracy too!

The lobotomies will continue. Free models will keep getting better.

I'd love to turn the subreddit into a mere front to funnle new people onto lemmy or another community forum but I doubt the average user would enjoy that very much 😅 I think we will put it up to a vote, we also did one to determin if we should join the protest in the first place

Good thing we don't have custom emojis on monero.town and the admin account isn't used for things outside of the local community :D

I'm weirded out by the fact that they offered a "lifetime" subscription for rather cheap. That's not something you do if you want to get indefinite funding for your video platform (hosting video is expensive).

As long as a LLM doesn't run into a corner, making the same mistakes over and over again, it is magical to just paste some code, ask what's wrong with it and receiving a detailed explanation + fix. Even better is when you ask "now can you add this and this to it?" and it does.

After moderating a bigger subreddit and seeing just how much spam there was in the comments and just how many people spend time replying to these bots I basically stopped reading them. Here I haven't see bots yet and at least my home instance watches out that it stays that way.

Firefox > Chrome

The video in that article is hilarious.

I don't want to take away ressources from people who will look into Monero in the future :/

In the past I commented many explanations when people asked for help and I don't want someone to find a thread with a question and deleted comment with a "Thanks!" reply. I guess a script to change all my past comments into something along the lines of "Removed. In case this was a support-related comment, feel free to ask for help on monero.town" could work?

Haven't tried bard but use ChatGPT to write/debug scripts and SAP stuff. Also asking it when I have simple but technical questions.

I am also downloading and running the latest models in the local LLM space every 2-3 weeks, just waiting for the point at which they finally take over gpt3.5 at which point I'll probably not touch ChatGPT again.

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-erasure-request-form/ <3

The nice part about federated software is that there are other instances you can join :D

While youtube vanced is falling apart, vanced music is still running just fine for me :D

Thank you, just ran this over my account. I didnt delete comments, just edited them to say I've moved to lemmy :)

Monero.town has a donation address and while you can prove you are human by linking an existing social media account during signup, you can also do this anonymously by donating a small amount of Monero. So far this model seems sustainable :)

can't down everyone at once

Well not until the next catastrophic federation bug gets discovered and abused 💀

Sharing is caring <3

Revolt isn't federated, every instance is standalone.

I think instance admins will just have to make sure they don't have bots on their platform and block instances that do a bad job at it leading to others getting invaded.

Perhaps some billionaire would adopt you and make a game out of defending you :P

Haven't heard of revolt before. Would be awesome if they had screenshare. I recently switched from jitsi to watchparty.me but this looks way nicer.

I like lemmies approach of not trying to reinvent the wheel and just let people put their matrix usernames into their profile for secure communication.

Just a tip, you should change the default pict-rs logging to "warn", the pre-set default logs wayyy too much and causes really noticeable bloat on smaller instances :D

Looks like it's quite popular in Japan.

I don't get what would defederating with Facebook-federated instances gives you, though.

Means the instance isn't part of the hive mind and we obviously can't have that!

Yunohost is awesome, if only for the dyndns. I try to host most of the stuff in docker but dyndns never quite worked for me unless it was the yunohost one.

I'm actually quite a bit younger than that. I was very much into stocks but got scammed in the GME fiasco when they disabled the buy button and got into Monero (at least I know beforehand that crypto is manipulated as fuck). Monero lead to FOSS and now I run a xmr node, i2p node, lemmy instance, selfhost cool stuff, etc. I learned a lot of stuff this way.

I selfhost freshrss and it's amazing. If the reddit privacy frontends go down due to the api changes, I'll lose those feeds but I already replaced them with lemmy feeds anyways :)

Ugh.... So people interested in decentralized networks are interested in decentralized networks. Shocker.

Btw I believe we've been here quite a bit longer than you, I've set up the first monero Lemmy instance about 5 months ago...

I mean vanced. I was too lazy to set up revanced and instead tried out NewPipe. I hate how I don't have my really optimized suggested page on NewPipe but I get around that by using vanced to browse and then opening the video in NewPipe via the share button. A nice plus of NewPipe however is how my subscriptions now really are just the channels I really care about and not the 1000 random ones I've subbed to over the last few years.

Same reason people fanboy over anything. They have made a personal investment in something, be it time or money, and are now trying to justify it by saying everything else is trash.

Then this gets reinforced by their bubble and more and more extreme opinions form. Reasonable people don't behave this way.

Same for me. Right now I don't need a laptop at all but when I get one, it will be a framework.

My home instance requires you to submit proof that you are human by either posting on an existing social media account or anonymously by sending 0.01 XMR (about 1.5€), that system is really hard to game (i guess you could spend a bunch of money on accounts but those would get banned and the funds would just pay for hosting lol).

That is a very cool interface :D

They've got revanced for twitter and tiktok? Not like I'm going to use those trash platforms but that's still pretty cool. Thank you for the link!

Sounds very similar to the vanced installation. I might do this and keep NewPipe for subscribing to the really high quality channels and if google actually goes through with banning accounts that block adds I won't be nearly as impacted :D

Lmao me too.

No, defederating would block all flow between instances. The problem is with hosting content that you don't want to or arent allowed to host. Currently if I view a image from burggit, the image gets saved to the monero.town and then served whenever someone else views it from there, which is a problem. If instead every time someone wants to view that image, it gets pulled from burggit again, monero.town isn't in trouble for hosting it anymore.