ahh I see
Thank you for the clarification👍

I can see what you mean by that although for this case in an odd manner you actually want to highlight this problem.

This is another parallel system that was shown in this crazy GDC talk: 1,500 Slot Machines Walk into a Bar: Adventures in Quantity Over Quality

For background context Alex Schwartz and Ziba Scott launched premium mobile games to the Google Play Store in 2013 which unfortunately didn’t “help in making our money back and being able to make enough money to make the next game”. After having explored the storefront and finding nefarious apps and junk reskined clones everywhere they decided to intentionally flood the Google Play Store with junk slot machine games as a joke/experiment.

"There was a point in here that I don’t think was drilled home as hard as it could have been which was… if people are sneaking by with garbage the thing that we did was to put a huge neon sign with an arrow pointing at ourselves and the garbage next to us; illuminating the entire underbelly of dark weird App Store shit and so the idea that if you do it at scale clearly they’re(Google’s) going to notice and clearly they’re(Google’s) going to change the terms of service slowly to ice you out.

Hopefully others went down with us in the wake of that. Like we provided the perfect targeted spot to drop the missile uh so hopefully, hopefully that helped get rid of duplicate apps that were also in the area."

Apologies I don’t really understand what you mean by that

I’m guessing this is a referral to the US election?

So u want to silence someone for their beliefs.

Allowing people to spout whatever nonsense and cause harm to others is reckless at best, ignorant and insane at worst. I’m old but not old enough to have dementia.

Free speach does not mean u have a right to not be offended.

The argument of free speech so hollow, I’ve seen it used by right-wingers as a rallying cry when in reality free speech is free yes but simutaneously it does not mean free of consequences.

He’s in violation of our TOS and probably several others which reminds me @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone you’ll want to see the last image with dumbass Zuck at the top

Reports don’t just go to mods, they go to admins as well.

You’re not wrong. Again however if the mod dismisses the report, the admin(s) would be unaware of the report unless they check the All tab. On P.D. anyways the report queue defaults to Unread, not sure if that can be changed on the newer instance versions.

And you can usually contact admins in other ways on most instances.

Again true, however [a user who’s already made a report] is it highly likely that they’d message the admins for an update? maybe?

It’s a non-zero possibility, but for my own report experience I actually just send a report and forget about it (unless I’m personally looking and pondering the reports queued on P.D’s report page, earlier last year I tried to send messages to users who made reports saying thank yous or updates on what happened to their reports).

For any users here please comment if you’ve asked for an update I’m actually genuinely curious what the frequency is.

Edit:
Ah right I just remembered that I wanted to request for a feature that community moderators can’t dismiss the report that’s made about them. This is the same copyright loophole system that exists in Youtube.

“The claimant gets to review the dispute, the guy who wants to have my song; he gets to decide if he actually owns my song.”

This is the same contradictory system in a slightly different manner:
The defendant gets to review the dispute, the guy who’s been reported; they get to decide whether to accept or reject the report.

I noticed this paradox earlier last year when I made some terrible posts and asked the P.D. team to review the reports made on me as I didn’t want to fall into this trap.

Best you can do is report them for the spamming in the instances they do it on.

I’ve made a separate comment here that explains why this might not work as they are the moderator for the communities that they created.

Based on the number of dislikes I have to imagine that someone out there might have made reports which were probably and unfortunately ‘handled/managed’ by UniversalMonk as that’s how the current moderation system works:

Currently [as of Jan 12, 2025]
If a report is sent, both the community moderator(s) and admin(s) are able to see and handle the report.

• This has the unfortunate side effect where if the moderator has no qualms and dismisses the report it can become unlikely that anyone would know what’s going on.

The user who made the report might then unfortunately think that the admin(s) are condoning the post/content that’s shared on their platform which might not actually be the case.

At this point I’m just going to ask that: if anyone has any posts or comments that they’d like to report, please feel free to also shoot me a Direct Message (DM). I’m going to preempt and say that while I can’t promise that I’ll respond immediately, I can at least guarantee that I’ll reply back saying that I have seen your message.

I disagree in that it should be allowed here just because:

“AI content is here to stay”

The reasoning for my belief is that the generation is near instantaneous in contrast to the effort that real people make to create things. The speed of creation creates an inherent problem in that it becomes near impossible to determine if that item is something worth of value to others, this causes a problem for both moderators and content consumers.

No one likes the time wastage that comes from low quality posts, comments, goods.

Time is something people can never get back.

Until the halucinations can be decreased to point where it causes no harm or is unnoticible, it will always have a more than likely negative cost to most people.

The argument that it should be allowed because it continues to exist is hard to justify in my opinion. The known and current cons are too costly to outweight the future potential pros.

just a suggestion; for the first header you can unshorten Fed to Fediverse

What’s the Fed

Referring as Fed might confuse new arrivals and Fediverse is a commonly accepted term afaik👍

Another suggestion:

From there, you then curate what the community’s found to suit your interests as you would in other places, following/subscribing and blocking, muting, or keyword filtering, depending on where you’re participating from.

From there, you can:

• opt-in and curate your personalized feed by following/subscribing to communities that’s available.
• opt-out and [block, mute, filter] by [users, communities, instances.

Just saw this and while I can’t check at the moment the instances admins I’ve pinged might want to consider defederating from Clubsall

@snowe@programming.dev @Ategon@programming.dev @mp3@lemmy.ca @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone

For note apps I can recommend:

• Joplin
  • Licensed under: AGPL-3.0
• Notally
  • Licensed under: GPL-3.0

Ah thank you! I didn’t realize it was made by Dan. In that case Loops is probably a safer bet than the current alternatives👍

Loops hasn’t yet released its source code or enabled federation, but project lead Dan Supernault has stated that he will do both in the near future.

Buying into promises is a gamble dependant on the crediblity and trustworthiness of the person/entity making them

Reporting typically works best👍

Huh in that case I wonder if both instance and defederation works by sort of pausing/suspending the new content updates.

Sort of like how Newpipe works is that new content could be available on your home/sub feed but won’t show up unless explicitly updated (by swiping down). Although for this analogy to work, banning would be equivalent to a filter/block in Voyager although it’ll only work for newer content?🤔

That’s my new guess anyways, not sure if it’ll help!😅🤗

I did get that, I just don’t understand as to why that’s happening; maybe a federation error?

It’s almost like their new posts are “defederated” from my home instance.

That part is odd and I don’t really have a good guess or assumption as to why that’s happening.

The posts they make are in a federated community with my home instance. I’d bet if they replied to this comment, I wouldn’t see their reply. (assuming this comment is even visible to them).

As far as I understand the system; banned users shouldn’t be able to make comments on a home instance their banned from unless something is broken or has been deliberately been changed.

If user A from instance 0 is banned from instance 1, then they can’t post on any instance 1 posts

but on instances outside of 1, they’ll still be able to interact with instance 1 users as far as I’m aware.

Pinging as asked:
@sbf@feddit.org

hmm they claim it’s open source but their repo:
This organization has no public repositories.

I’d advise against preordering unless you understand and you’re ok with taking the leap of faith that is tied with preorders~

If I see a new community or post that I feel should’ve gained a higher number of subscribers/votes I tend to check if it’s been federated or not

and if the community hasn’t I tend to queue it up as a habit🤗