Lemmy is seeing a sustained order of magnitude jump in sign-ups over the last two weeks. People complain that it is too difficult to understand (although there are now good guides pinned on r/lemmy) until they realise it is time to actual do something and it all goes (relatively) smoothly after that.

I’m definitely up for this.

Right now she is reluctant because English is her 4rth language and especially older movies are using language differently too, but one day she will give in :D.

Turn it around and watch films in the languages she is comfortable with.

If you let us know what they are (and if she has any red lines, like “no horror”), I am sure we can rummage up some good suggestions.

Yes, there may be existing options - PieFed has an image view and I suspect the *key forks could be made to do something similar.

That seems like a plus to them.

Apparently, Pinetta is still active. There is an alpha release but it seems like the devs were struggling with time limitations and getting the AP protocol right. It is in Python if anyone wants to take a look.

Also on F-Droid.

Yes.

I’ve just asked. There is a FOSS but not federated version.

But it is largely human-curated and indexed. That’s great for training AI, like Reddit.

We just added it as the old frontend was getting hammered by bots - it helped a lot.

There are lists of bots that instance Admins can block for a range of reasons.

Anything online can be scraped but big firms might run into regulatory trouble if they are caught randomly scraping sites without consent. At the moment, the big social media apps have a tonne of content to train on in tightly controlled conditions, so they don’t really need to go into the wild, yet. However, we need to be vigilant, block them and make a fuss if we catch them at it.

Yeah, bit underwhelming.

That’s the bit that made me laugh: “nothing to see here, we’ve been doing this for a while. What, you didn’t know? Not our fault you are unobservant.”

It was pretty inevitable.

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this started happening at Lemmy too.

You missed the Vegan Cat Food Wars then.

“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.

Thoughtcrime time.

Bigger picture - what if Xitter, Meta and Reddit (all run by Trump humpers) started centrally compiling this kind of thing to flag up “persons of interest”?