rglullis

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, let's make things less abstract and talk about real examples.

piefed.social is not sending the real voters out. You think that alone should be grounds to get lemmy.ml (your instance) to defederate them. Am I understanding you correctly?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I’m not sure if this has happened yet

I have more than 15 topic-specific instances, and we are in absolute agreement about why this is the best arrangement for group federation.

Also, thank you very much for leading by example. Lets hope the bigger instances also see the value in the initiative.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Yes, but that's kind of my point?

if downvotes are public, the admin of your instance can see who is downvoting you and then they can take action. If the downvotes are coming from an instance that hides the real user for every vote, you and the admin are SOL.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If the same user downvotes everything I’ve ever said,

Right. How would you know what "the same user" is? Let's say that your posts get downvoted at random intervals by 5-10 users in the first 45-120 minutes. They all have different user names. What are you going to do? Create a report against any particular user and hope that the mods look into it?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 5 days ago (7 children)

How would that work? How would an admin separate downvotes from brigaders and legitimate users who happen to downvote a comment?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 5 days ago (9 children)

That creates an incentive for trolls to create accounts at the popular instances using this mechanism in order to destroy their reputation.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Replace "hashing" with "encrypted" (perhaps just using a symmetric key that the admin sets up) and then it gets impossible to know for any outsiders who is the real user behind the vote.

I for one just wish people understood once and for all that anything you do on social media is public.

If you are not comfortable backing up your opinion or action, then don't do it.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 12 points 5 days ago (12 children)

How long until it gets abused, and trolls start brigading though instances that hide their votes?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, I know it exists. It is somewhat stale in content, though.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

there are no bots posting to !emacs@communick.news and the selfhosted.forum/gearhead.town/metacritics.zone communities since at least November of last year. Could that restriction be lifted?

Specific to emacs: maybe it would be better to outright move the community to programming.dev?

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm curious about what do you mean by "cheapest options". Do you remember how much you were paying then?

IIRC, StackOverflow Careers kind of established the price per posting around $300. After they came up every other job posting site was charging around that.

For CareerCupid, I want to make a single flat rate of $89/month and let companies make as many job listings as they want. I think that the value for a company should not be in charging per posted job, but to give them access to the whole database in a way that can help them make hiring decisions directly.

I get why they resorted to buying all this AI fuckery to try to more aggressively filter resumes.

I get it as well, but I think that this "send us your resume" and we will judge you based on it is such an outdated concept we could get rid of it entirely.

Imagine if we got something like Wikidata applied to the "professional social network" graph of the whole world. If "let's set out to build a map of all the ~2 billion people who are economically active" was somewhat impossible to think about 20 years ago, today it's the kind of project that can be easily managed on modest infrastructure.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I completely agree.

(I want to try something different here. Instead of a fully fleshed out post, I’d like to just start with a draft of some ideas and I hope that it is enough to generate a conversation. I’ll take the relevant responses and use them to keep improving this article)

But if you were so eager to give feedback, perhaps you could've started with something more productive than yet-another smutty comment that serves only to make you feel better than the plebs who use and get any value out of ChatGPT?

 

cross-posted from: https://communick.news/post/2494298

If you are not aware, sportbots is a project that mirrors Twitter accounts from popular sport reporters, players and the leagues themselves. These bots are presented as regular ActivityPub actors, which means that they can be followed from Mastodon and any other AP service that is oriented towards microblogging.

With my work on Fediverser and the ActivityPub Toolkit, I'm realizing that we could do something similar for Lemmy. The Fediverser system could keep a database of these bots accounts and then map them to the relevant Lemmy instances/communities.

I'd like to get some opinions on how best to do this. Here are some of my ideas, in order of preference:

  1. Reach out to the developer behind sportbots.xyz and ask them to add this integration directly, to make sure that the bots post not just to Mastodon-like systems, but to groups as well.

Pros: it can be very straightforward. No new bots being created on the Fediverse. Cons: the code seems to be closed, so we have to rely on the dev to implement this.

  1. Add the functionality to Fediverser to map mastodon/twitter/bluesky accounts to Lemmy mirror bots, and also map these accounts to the specific communities where they should be posting.

Pros: Accounts could be eventually be used by the real owner. Open source. Cons: More bots in the Fediverse (not at alien.top scale, though). Not that many Lemmy admins seem interested in deploying Fediverser so far.

  1. Create a separate project from Fediverser that does what sportbots is doing, but focused on Lemmy.

Pros: most flexible. Could be easier for other people to run it if interested. I would be sure to open source it. Cons: It's yet-another project that I would be taking on, and I don't have any more bandwidth for new projects unless they are guaranteed to bring some revenue.

Please, let's avoid any "who cares about sports?" or "I only want organic content here" type of discussion. We need content here if we want to get more people to stay active and if you don't care about sports or the bots, just feel free to block them.

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