My instance takes a very strict moderation stance to give our users a very tailored experience of the rest of the fediverse. We don’t allow any generative AI, any slurs, any authoritarian propaganda, or any ads for Elon’s website. We also believe mods and admins should be held to a higher standard than regular users, because with great power there must also come great responsibility.
piefed.social detects and labels LLM-generated posts, including the content of the link.
Like this one - https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/1908035/onyx-self-hosted-messenger-with-lan-mode-and-e2ee-an-indie-project-story
Mods can manually detect AI comments too, like this:
In this case I chose to take no action (that guy probably won’t be back after posting his promo post anyway) but if they are persistent they get banned.
We banned wardcore because large language models aren’t smart enough to express meaningful consent to work for humans.
consent would only matter if they were sentient
They are sentient. You’re thinking of sapience. Sapience is what homo sapiens have. Sentience is a trait many animal species and LLMs have. And I’m a vegan, so I don’t exploit any sentient creature for personal gain.
define sentience
Awareness of oneself as a distinct entity from the rest of the world.
Technically speaking, sentience is kind of a mistake. Thinking of ourselves as individuals is very useful, but the boundaries of such are artificial and can lead to a “me vs them” mentality and selfish behaviour. I suspect that the next big cognitive leap forward will be discarding sentience. Doing so may be a prerequisite to forming an advanced society.
Mbin has mixed feeds (microblogging + threads), is very responsive to Ublock Origin so I can simulate a better post hiding than Lemmy or Mastodon’s, its RSS picks both threads and microblog posts from communities (but thankfully not comments from users, unlike Misskey), and UI has very little visual noise.
Defederation with Threads should be a priority. They’ll attempt an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactic.
Only upside I can think of federating with Threads is to try to pull people into the wider fediverse, but indeed it’s a major risk that Facebook the company’s grip is stronger in case people don’t defederate.
Servers are fueled by renewables!
Some thing that I think should be more widely adopted (de facto mostly a list of features that Lemmy lacks relative to Piefed):
- Instance URL redirection; not only a Piefed thing, also done by Voyager
- Merged comments for the same post URL
- Post flair and to a lesser extent tags, Post flair is really helpful for if you manage a community
What do you mean by instance url redirection?
We discussed about merged comments for same post url, but there was no clear support for it. Many people dont care or warn that it could have unwanted side effects.
That’s where the text of my comment has a link to https://lemmy.zip/post/61737842 and PieFed automatically turns it into https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1937345/i-m-still-new-to-the-fediverse-what-are-your-favorite-unique-things-that-your-instance because I’m using piefed.social. Viewers of my comment on piefed.zip get whatever the piefed.zip url is.
I was really surprised when I saw that flairs weren’t widely adopted yet. They’re super useful for community filtering.
Closest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an <include> type of filter, not also an <exclude> one.
- Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
- Default UI is not Lemmy UI
- PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)
Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
This. Maybe it’s a general problem with more niche platforms, but it is hard to recommend the fediverse when there are so many communities that are filled with extremist views, propaganda, and reality deniers. Like, I’ve gotten used to it, and I purposefully don’t filter out those communities because I want to see things outside of my bubble. But it can get maddening sometimes, especially when those views aren’t supported by proper arguments, but instead by empty zingers, brigading and insults.
Would you mind elaborating on the Peertube instance? How does it integrate/what benefits are there to integration?
It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.
The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.
Right now: communick members get an account on Matrix, Mastodon and Funkwhale, where they can upload up to 250GB.
Coming soon ™:
- account at an ADAPT instance, with a custom client that can let people interact with any type of server.
- XMPP integration to integrate movim.
- Custom Voyager client to get read-only Reddit access.
Under consideration:
- Bridging with ATProto
ATProto is what Bluesky is built on, right? How does it differ from Activity Pub? Are there difficulties with bridging the two protocols?
ATProto is much more difficult to self host instances with.
Correct. ATProto is the protocol used by Bluesky. There is one bridge already
@speedythefirst@lemmy.zip AT Protocol uses relays instead of direct communication - think two devices talking over bluetooth (ActivityPub) vs talking through the router on a same network (AT Protocol).
AT Protocol is better for content distribution, but its relay system is more centralized. ActivityPub is better for decentralization, but contents and to a smaller degree servers need to be found first.
Also there is the Nostrr protocol, but to my knowledge it’s dwarfed in comparison to ActivityPub and AT Protocol, is also relay-based, and the only instance that uses it that I know is minds.com, which also uses ActivityPub.
And talking about instances with multiple protocols used, alternative to bridging through Bridgy Fed, Wafrn uses both AT Protocol and ActivityPub natively, and NeoDB (for cross-posting afaik) and Friendica (for normal use) allow connecting to your Bluesky account if you have one.
XMPP chat account integration.
I’m only here for the gamgbangs.
