HobbitFoot

Yeah, but those tools should be built into Lemmy and they aren’t. Even something as basic as mod seniority based on something other than how long someone has been a mod should have been corrected.

Good mods and admins are able to do good work despite the tools provided, not with the tools provided.

I’m not surprised. Lemmy has been sold as a Reddit where people can be in more control than they could be on Reddit. It turns out you only get that control if you’re an admin.

But the decision to defederate or allow a mod to use AI is at the admin level, not the user level.

The user threat to leave isn’t worth that much.

The use of AI for moderation isn’t the choice of users, but moderators and admins.

That was how the Internet worked back in the day. Site reliability for small sites was shit and going viral would routinely pull a smaller site down.

Maybe you should make some noise until an MP cleans up the issue.

So how does UK law handle federation?

IANAL, but most law that I’ve heard of regarding third party content requires the site hosting the content to conform to takedown notices issued. So, having a good DCMA system requires you to be able to take down content from instances that may not be bad, but governed differently.

As for the law “catching up with” federation sites, I don’t see that happening unless Mastodon and Lemmy start creating massive lobbying arms.

Yeah, if.

Has BlueSky implemented federation yet?

I feel like this is going to become a problem with federation in the future. A Mastodon instance is hosting content outside of its control that may or may not comply with its internal policies or local law. Is that instance protected legally? Likely not.

It would likely be treated the same way as auto forwarding an email would be treated.

Bluesky is new Twitter today.

There is nothing in its design to prevent it from becoming the X of tomorrow.

What’s my age, again?

I’m not 23. Nobody likes you when you’re 23.

Jeroba would default to .ml because the devs also admin the instance.

No, but a ton of people got AOL and Prodigy email addresses at first because they got an email address with their account.

And he has turned over Mastodon to a non-profit company which should be able to gain more resources to develop Mastodon.

I feel like Mastodon is the only one who did things right.

If the company dies, could the service continue?

Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?