That’s not entirely true. University assignments are scanned for signs of LLM use, and even with several thousand words per assignment, a not insignificant proportion comes back with an ‘undecided’ verdict.

The further get down this thread, the more you sound like a person I don’t want to deal with. And looking at the downvotes, I’m not the only one.

If you want people blocking you, perhaps followed by communities and instances blocking you as well, carry on.

There is no such thing as ‘free speech friendly’. Free speech is not absolute, and is defined / restricted differently across countries. So different instances will have to comply with their different local laws.

Also: an instance allowing comments doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences. For example: you can criticise the Thai royal family all you want on a US based instance, but don’t ever show your face in Thailand after doing that if you value your freedom.

Glossing over the fact that DOJ can’t subpoena instances like world as they are outside the US (but, like world, may be subject to EU GDPR) having an account without PII if your IP address is all over the servers isn’t going to save you.

Yep!

Yes, i know i can host my own instance. But I don’t think that should be necessary. My ‘problem’ is that a single post is looking different on each of the instances I signed up to, and the community in question is not on any of those instances. That is confusing me. I get that any instance can block other instances, or specific communities on other instances, and that’s a good thing. But selective federation at the level of posts or comments is an extra complication in the user experience i wasn’t aware of. I thought a post, with all its comments, would either show up in its entirety or not at all. That is clearly not the case.

Shame that isn’t on ios

Thank you for checking. That is weird. Your screen shot is exactly what I would expect / like to see when a user is blocked and has their comments removed. Neither voyager nor the web interface for world shows that. What app are you using?

It is not a voyager issue. Viewing the Post on world in the web browser also only shows 3 out of 20 comments

Thanks for the explanations. So a single post can have different comments showing up on different instances. So when selecting an instance, not only do we need to consider what other instances they defederated from, we also need to consider their policies on banning users and removing comments. Great. And people wonder why the average person isn’t embracing the fediverse.

Re photo: posted using voyager on mobile, so maybe that is the issue.

Re delays: the original post isn’t on world, it’s on another instance. I did comment from world and that whole comment tree disappeared from world but not from the original instance. So it does not seem to be a delay in federation from the original instance to world.

And correct me if i am wrong, but banning a user just stops them from posting, but i thought it did not delete their post history without additional mod action - which i cant see in the modlog

That is probably true for all instances

Would be interested in what? Some may be interested in a Pixelfed app, others may be interested in a mastodon app. Those groups don’t necessarily overlap much, and while some may be interested in the fediverse or activity pub, most people just want to know what it can do for them.

Honest question: what is the goal here? As a user, I don’t care much about the fediverse as a concept. As a Reddit refugee, I love Lemmy and that is worth promoting as far as I am concerned. I was never into twitter, and mastodon doesn’t appeal to me. But if people want to promote it, go for it. As a techie, the fediverse is an interesting concept, but not one you’re going to get the general public interested in.

For me, it’s neither strength nor weakness. I’m a boring old fart, I’m not here for politics.

Because mastodon is the Linux of social media. One day it will be ready for the average user…

Not just open source. It needs to have a sustainable community of developers. I’m not interested in a project that dies when the one maintainer has other priorities (been there with another lemmy app) Open source just means anyone can fork it and carry on, but if nobody does, it still dies.

Voyager on iOS has keyword filters

I don’t disagree, but it’s probably not that easy. Universities in my country don’t have the resources anymore to do many orals, and depending on the subject exams don’t test the same skills as coursework.

It’s not just the internet. For example, students are handing in essays straight from ChatGPT. Uni scanners flag it and the students may fail. But there is no good evidence either side, the uni side detection is unreliable (and unlikely to improve on false positives, or negatives for that matter) and it’s hard for the student to prove they did not use an LLM. Job seekers send in LLM generated letters. Consultants probably give LLM based reports to clients. We’re doomed.