I like both the piped bot and the tldr bot for the same reason: I don’t need to visit a horribly bloated, ads and scripts ridden web site, which most news sites are. So I take the bot as a really good service. Also consider that without it I’d say most will just read the title and may make conclusions based on that. I’d say that’s a bigger advantage than the downsides you mention.

(Yes I use adblocks and stuff. Most news sites are still a drag to visit and difficult to read.)

I think the bot is fine in principle. The YouTube web site is fucking terrible and it’s nice to introduce people who don’t use automatic redirects or 3rd party clients to an alternative.

My problem is that it would offer only piped.video links. We don’t know how long the piped.video instance will work, but well that’s the case for any instance. Ideally a bot would provide at least two links - piped and invidious, and maybe cycle or randomly choose instances. Perhaps under a spoiler tag.

Of course it’s up to community mods to choose, but I think bots like this or the tldr bot provide value even if they can cause that “Reddit moment”.

Get a multitool in a form of a credit card. Those usually go unnoticed, but no guarantee.

Guys, we are supposedly building communities that satisfy our needs outside of the main platforms (Facebook, X, Reddit, etc.)

Nah doesn’t seem like it. Instance admins are way more paranoid than Reddit and co ever were. Lemmyworld last week had a spam problem with some bots posting cp, and other instances instead of showing support have defederated. Which is generally the preferred option to deal with things - defederation and bans.

Altho, looking at my blocklist of hundreds of users and communities, who am I to talk…

(Pasting here bc your other post got deleted.)

Well since they’re constant by tracking every device at all times and all the other devices and networks as well, might as well put that to good use.

Yes, that’s why they’re designed that way, to be compatible both ways.

Same goes for mono jacks in stereo socket and vice versa.

The only problem was over 10 years ago when there were two standards of TRRS, with one of the two connections swapped (so maybe the other one was TRSR or something, I don’t remember anymore). So if you used earphones with the other standard, they’d only play sound when you pressed down the button. That thing has been looong abandoned tho, and I think Sony Ericsson was the only major brand using them anyway.

Why is every comment just about the US? Skin color, school shooter drills, actor president, support for Russians by US politicians…

Lemmy try something more international:

France and Germany have founded the European Union.

First Japan, and now China (and Taiwan) and Korea are the technological superpowers.

Car industry in the UK basically doesn’t exist anymore.

Cuba is still communist af and yet looks like a chill place.

Czechoslovakia has split. (Funny how even 30 years after the fact some people don’t believe it, so I can imagine it being inconceivable before.)

There are 8 billon people.

We still don’t have nuclear-powered flying cars.

I’ve always been wondering to what degree are logs accurate, or rather believable as presented.

Such as when it comes to affiliate marketing, or ads. How can I, as a customer, know the numbers Amazon or Google about how many people used my link / seen my ad, aren’t full of shit?

Certain search engine company was a badly managed, bureaucratic slog of an ads-driven soulless corporation for way longer than people think.

Congratulations?

Meta: We’re launching it now with no ads or plans, then we’ll figure out what to do once we hit a billion users

People: Ooh but Meta may not be all bad, let’s just wait and see!

I mean, Meta is totally freely admitting they’re just playing the good guy now and will hit hard once they gain monopoly and can do whatever the fuck they want. How much more clear does it have to get?

Lemmy.ml actively asked people to sign up elsewhere. They have a small server and aren’t meant to be a general instance.

Lemmy.world is run by people who have one of the larger Mastodon servers, and actively advertises to be open and neutral.

Some of the communities I’ve started are becoming more popular, and I have less time. Even tho everyone is 100% chill for now (only two reports and both false alarms), I guess I should add some mods.

My question is, do all mods have the same rights? In particular, can a mod remove another mod, especially myself? Or add new ones?

How to check other mods’ work, e.g. whether they don’t ban someone inappropriately?

What moderation tools are there? I only see removal and ban, is there anything else? I guess one can send a warning through a message?

I don’t wanna be some dictator or anything, in fact I find it important to keep the atmosphere cool and let people express themselves even if they are upset or make a mistake. How to coordinate such an atmosphere?

A lot of people have weird experiences with Reddit mods that would ban you for nothing and were overall drama queens. I’d prefer to avoid that, if that makes sense.

2 weeks ago: Lemmy is so amazing, create an account anywhere and you can access everything! It’s like forums but better!

Now: defederate >:(

Ugh. I get the concern in scenarios like this, but in the last couple of days every instance has calls to defederate from this or that. Eventually it’s just gonna be small islands of “very compatible” instances.

Well, guess it’s back to making separate accounts for everything!