This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an …
  • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Well I’ve definitely misinterpreted.

    This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from ‘David Gerard@awful.systems’ and then I see your comment as

    @dgerard gtfo. Lol

    Which to me I interpreted as ‘lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here’. Especially with the reply from second user, “thanks, blocked”.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don’t do that.

    • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 days ago

      adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance

      anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges

      • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
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        3 days ago

        at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it’s a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)