I think it’s a waste of time. It doesn’t really add anything. If you don’t want to lose your subscription in the unlikely event that your server/instance goes down forever, just use the export feature to make occasional backups. You can always create a new account after something happened. No need to invest that time otherwise.

You’re free to use sockpuppets though. Or if you’re moderating stuff or participate in instances/communities who don’t federate.

Sure, go ahead. Technically it’s not 100% correct. I mean lemm.ee wouldn’t be your provider, it’d be the people operating the server who provide the service to you… But I think it’s close enough. Only issue I can see is the term “provider” usually being used with commercial services. Like a cellphone provider or ISP. So I’m not sure if people start to think this costs $10 a month or something and is run by for-profit businesses… But we also use the word “provider” for free things, so I’m not entirely sure about that. But generally speaking I think we use different terminology because we don’t think of the Fediverse as a product.

I often recommend Mistral-Nemo-Instruct. I think that one strikes a good balance. But be careful with it, it’s not censored. So given the right prompt, it might yell at people, talk about reproductive organs etc. All in all it’s a job that takes some effort. You need a good model, come up with a good prompt. Maybe also give it a persona. And the entire framework to feed in the content, make decisions what to respond to. And if you want to do it right, and additional framework for safety and monitoring. I think that’s the usual things for an AI bot.

If you manage to do it, maybe write some blog post about the details and what you did. I think other people might be interested.

Is memory that small, connected externally, or does that SoC just end up being a large package, with that much RAM on it?

What kind of models are you planning to use? Some of the LLMs you run yourself? Or the usual ChatGPT/Grok/Claude?

It is like I said. People on platforms like Reddit complain a lot about bots. This platform on the other hand is kind of supposed to be the better version of that. Hence not about the same negative dynamics. And I can still tell ChatGPT’s uniquie style and a human apart. And once you go into detail, you’ll notice the quirks or the intelligence of your conversational partner. So yeah, some people use ChatGPT without disclosing it. You’ll stumble across that when reading AI generated article summaries and so on. You’re definitely not the first person with that idea.

I really don’t think this place is about bot warfare. Usually our system works well. I’ve met one person who used ChatGPT as a form of experiment on us, and I talked a bit to them. Most people come here to talk or share the daily news or argue politics. With the regular Linux question in between. It’s mostly genuine. Occasionally I have to remind someone to tick the correct boxes, mostly for nsfw, because the bot owners generally behave and set this correctly, on their own. And I mean for people who like bot content, we already have X, Reddit and Facebook… I think that would be a good place for this, since they already have a goot amount of synthetic content.

I think there is quite some overlap with Lemmy. You can do images and threads here. And they even show up in a tree-like structure. I’m not sure about ephermal, I don’t think Lemmy is as advanced. But other Fedi software have ephemeral posts.

So, given your requirements, I’d say this is that place. Communities would be your topic boards, and posts would be the threads. And user accounts and moderation would be the improvements to make it less toxic.

Lemmy and Fediverse software have a box to tick in the profile settings. That shows an account is a bot. And other people can then choose to filter them out or read the stuff. Usually we try to cooperate. Open warfare between bots and counter-bots isn’t really a thing. We do this for spam and ban-evasion, though.

And with machine code, you got to keep track of what’s in the stack, CPU registers, … to make a sense of what the code and the next branch command does. It’s completely unalike processing human language. LLMs aren’t really set up to do it.

He’s stuck 🙁

Hmmh. And I’ve missed another point. If you want to do things like add communities later on, and this somehow propagates to existing subscribers, this can’t work together with anything but one subscription per whole feed.

I haven’t made complete sense of the feature and the consequences yet. I thought I’d just open the feed from the top bar and use it to categorize stuff for myself. And I’ll open it every time i specifically want to see just Linux stuff or wholesome stuff. But yeah, that’s not the main point of it. And I’ve never used multi-reddits or starter packs or similar features… I’m probably just very tired, I’ll stop talking for today because what I say doesn’t make a lot of sense anymore. Wish you all a nice day or night or whatever it is.

Feeds subscribe you to those communities

I mean if you click on subscribe, to subscribe to all the communities within, that’s kind of intended behaviour?! If you just view it, it shouldn’t really be an issue. I guess there is some way to figure this out in an acceptable way.

But yeah, we can scrap my idea if it’s used this way. Maybe just don’t offer one big subscribe button for all of the group, so users need to make a deliberate choice and click on all the communities seperately?

That’s a valid concern. And I think to solve that in a clean way and altogether, they need some options to restrict commenting or voting to subscribers only. Meddling with other features and how communities can be found, so people can keep hiding in Lemmy’s noise… is a very indirect approach and doesn’t go all the way.

I’ve seen a bit of that issue in connection with the All-feed. Back when AI was still largely hated on, we regularly had some amount of downvotes creep into the few dedicated AI communities. And while I support people downvoting the flood of AI related stuff in general news and technology communities, I don’t see any reason to drive-by downvote an AI post in an AI community. But that has stopped since. And I don’t think I’ve seen anyone come in and pick fights or something. It was just some minor but noticeable and constant stream of downvotes. So I can definitely see how these things would be annoying to some people. On the other hand I think people wanting to subscribe to things and having curated feeds, might also be a valid request.

Lol. It’s probably this: https://forum.wedistribute.org/topic/9/we-distribute-is-always-looking-for-help

And their website is: https://wedistribute.org/

I’d say this is just like a nice e-mail provider that provides you with email and a bit of cloud storage and a place to sync your addressbook and calender for like $5 a month. We could do the same with social media and the Fediverse.

Two things to consider:

• It’s likely illegal to take other people’s content and re-publish it on your own terms
• Peertube admins have to pay for storage. So don’t dump random noise there. It has to be useful / worth it. Especially if you make someone else pay for the server space.

I’m not sure what OP meant but I think none of the comments here are nailing it. If we say, we can’t do anything unless it’s 100% certain that all instances comply with the protocol, we might scrap the whole Fediverse idea altogether. Any post or comment or vote or deletion could be tempered with in one way or another. I mean we’re clearly making an effort here to do federation. I don’t really agree with the why and how of the whole discussion. My own point is, the software seems to have some bugs. Rarely, some comments and posts don’t federate to me correctly, and more often than that, deletions don’t federate correctly. Which seems to be one of OP’s problems, but also while dealing with spam or malicious activities.

On the other hand, everyone who thinks it’s super easy to just delete everything has never had a look at the consequences. Moderators and Admins sometimes need to deal with bad people, there are technical reasons involved. And bad people also misuse features. It’s complicated for several reasons, difficult to get it right and it’s always a balance between opposing legitimate interests.

But with that said, this doesn’t apply to bugs. Lemmy should at least iron out the software bugs to federate activities to other instances properly.

Fair enough. I guess we can skip the other options then, at least for your case. The replacement isn’t implemented in a very thoughtful way, I agree. For technical reasons, you can’t have it your way either. A platform with tree-style comments or replies can’t have a comment in-between deleted entirely, or the rest of the tree will collapse. So there needs to be some empty placeholder. Or you just can’t use platforms which allow users to reply to each other, but that’s more a you-problem. I agree though, if you delete it, it can’t have your username or content left behind. Thanks for raising this concern. I’m not sure if anyone ever put it on the agenda for Lemmy.

Damn leechers. And doubly so. First they steal the books, and then they don’t even give back to the pirates. And it’s not like Anna’s Archive or Libgen weren’t struggling already. So Meta is just harming everyone involved.