Good bot

And answers like this are exactly why non techies don’t join and we get posts like this. You’re the problem

FYI, there’s many bot accounts already reposting stuff. There was an entire instance previously dedicated to it, though I think it shut down at some point. It was not popular, most people blocked the accounts / instances and they just clogged up the feed for newcomers due to the lack of engagement.

There’s an explicit flag that can be toggled on every account to mark them as bots. If you’re acting in good faith that flag should definitely be toggled.

Issue was fixed several months ago, but yeah it was a problem for quite a while

For the low price of $5.99 a month, I’ll provide premium mod/admin services like randomly deleting your comments, blocking you from random comms, harassing you in DMs, etc.

Or you can upgrade to the premium-user package for $15.99 where you get to do whatever you want with my silent approval!

I sympathise and agree with the intent, but the proposed solution is not great. No, I don’t have a better solution in mind.

I have no idea :)

Ah ok. That’s the problem that the major instances solved by having bots auto join all new communities in each other, right?

I don’t use mastodon, but is that an issue for the Threadiverse? I thought all replies are collected by the host instance of the community.

Eh, I managed to claim the dumbest in the world title without much trouble, don’t see what’s the fuss

There’s a difference between the fediverse and the Threadiverse, though.

I feel like it would be more relevant to come up with a name for Threadiverse users as a whole. There’s really not much to differentiate us as a community between lemmy and piefed.

I tried element a week ago after a similar discussion. Afaict, it does not fill the same niche. I’m very open to being corrected, but it doesn’t seem like element has support for multi-room communities.

Also, multi device login was extremely wonky. I’m not going to recommend something that’ll end up with me having to play tech support to get it working.

Discord isn’t like reddit though, you don’t have the userbase spread out across the same space regardless of the users. For discord every server is a standalone community and they’re each going to have their own standards of civility.

Essentially, if you were a user on his instance he assumed you were there because you wanted his curated version of the fediverse. So his instance ban list got treated like his own personal block list.

Guy instance banned a bunch of people simply for speaking up in favor of Luigi, before it got clear how many supporters there were. Admin-wise, some questionable decisions. Still he did a lot of good for Lemmy. Shame to lose him.

Ah, not lemmy, you’re talking about the rest of the fediverse. Gotcha

Haven’t seen anything like that myself, which instance admin are you referring to?

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