Kirk

Don't get me wrong I hate LLMs being shoved down our throats, but I think the "Mozilla using AI" stuff is overblown. The few LLM features they've implemented are useful and non-intrusive. I actually think it's a rare example of the tech being used intelligently (no pun intended).

This is it exactly.

"But how can we know if it's a bot?"

We probably can't based on a single comment or post, which is why rules need to be constructed around maintaining a level of effort and quality.

It always is. The thing with FOSS vs a private company is that internal debates are:

1. Public
2. Involving people working for free

Meaning we not only see the ""drama"", but that it can become more verbally intense. Buuuuut it almost never ends up mattering much to the average user, and when it does, the public certainly won't learn about it on github or the replies to a toot.

Right? The entire point of the fediverse is more moderation, if someone wants to force others to listen to their speech they can join an instance with no rules or go to X.com.

I've just accepted that most Redditors want a content feed to read on the toilet, and very few are looking for conversation or community.

If we can convince people looking for the latter to come to the fediverse... now that's the real victory.

Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml attract the most users but their (lack of) meaningful moderation really helps prevent users from staying, imo. Most users don't understand that joining a smaller instance is often a better experience. And why would they stick around the Fediverse if their experience is worse than that of Reddit?