It’s funny you described that account’s behavior as so abhorrent it might cause you to quit the fediverse, but also that you don’t have a problem with it.

I think it’s crazy to expose yourself to content that makes you upset but to each their own.

Just report to your admin the spam accounts problem solved (and report to the instance the account is hosted on)

Inauthentic and inorganic posts are always spam, the rate at which the spam is posted is not important.

It still qualifies as spam if the result of posting is to overwhelm and drown out authentic and organic behavior.

Sorry I need to backtrack for a moment. I don’t understand how you’re suggesting right-wing discussion need not be on the “Threadvisere as a whole”? How would that even be possible? It’s an open platform, instances don’t get to control other instances.

When you say the discussions "need not be here" do you mean c/fediverse@lemmy.world? Or all of discuss.online?

As it grows I think it will be much easier to justify a new person or instance in cutting off entire toxic areas and that will only cause it to grow faster.

Right now we all have to weigh the balance between activity and toxicity but eventually we shouldn’t need to make that calculation, we can have “high moderation” and “low moderation” versions of every topic.

It’s sad because he put so much effort into making evil malware that blocked out all the truth tellers but he can’t bring himself to use it because of some deeper disorder that doesn’t allow him to leave people alone on the internet

Confirmed. How many times do I have to confirm?

I made a blocklist but I don’t use it because I’m lonely and enjoy the harassment.

He doesn’t owe you shit. You don’t get to harass someone because you don’t like how they spend their free time.

Big “it’s your fault I hit you” energy.

That quote is just total nonsense. There has absolutely never been a “great man theory” of open source. The concept of “forking” is a fundamental aspect of the entire philosophy.

The individuals who do stand out stand out precisely because of their humility and how little (nothing) they ask in return for their contributions.

I expect better from David Gerard. Andrew Tridgell is an S-tier developer that is getting older, and has been asking for assistance for a long time. When help never arrived he turned to LLMs and is now getting insanely harassed for this decision by the exact same people who sat back and refused to help him.

If you ask me the real slop is articles like this from people who prefer to put their energy into bitching and moaning about how someone else spends their free time. The idea that it’s ok to bully someone for the “crime” of not maintaining “critical infrastructure” for free goes against everything FOSS stands for.

The Threadiverse feels a lot busier than 40k MAU but I suppose it’s possible we are all mostly the .01% of Reddit who wouldn’t (couldn’t) shut up.

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I recently tried asking Amazon’s AI a simple question about a product that had hundreds of reviews. It was a cheap thing, and I admit I was too lazy to verify the info so I went with what the AI said and bought it, and guess what the AI was just completely wrong and now Amazon is paying for me to ship it back.

I’m only seeing information about ChatGPT, Sora, Claude and Gemini… Where is the news about AI?

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