Oh, there was nothing wrong with the gist of what they said, it was the personal commentary at the beginning that was unneeded. If they had skipped that then their point would have been likely considered more thoughtfully by those reading.

No, ignorant takes like yours are the real problem.

Is this Reddit?! (Looks up at title bar in confusion.)

No…well, this is odd.

As always, the limits of tolerance are met when it comes to suggesting we tolerate intolerance. The boundary must be set there.

It’s almost certainly hiding vents or pipes that needed to be routed there. As for the carpeting, somebody no doubt thought it would be cool, or else if for sound dampening.

A Russian commander with an apparent habit of posting his running routes on social media has been shot dead while jogging in the city of Krasnodar.

Excellent OpSec, those Russians have!

WTF, I ain’t watching an hour long video on a stupid fridge! I’ll just watch the first few minutes and see what’s up…

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One hour later…

Okay, that was really interesting. I really love this channel.

TIL the Technology Connections guy is on Lemmy via Mastadon.

And that’s awesome!

So what are the Bots doing?

Many of them are doing nothing so far.

No doubt they are available for sale to some company or individual that wants to buy them wholesale and start spamming or astroturfing.

Who created them and why?

People wanting to sell them for $$ mostly. In some cases, people biding their time to use them for mass spam, social misdirection, opinion forming, etc.

I don’t understand the purpose of bots.

In social media, a common and concerning use of them is to use them wholesale (comments, posts, and votes) to try and sway mass opinion on some issue to something the person responsible for the bots wants.

Are any of these accounts bots?

About 2.45 million of the 2.5 are, yes.

Yup, came here to say that as well. it’s al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.

And I’ve been seeing some…odd looking… comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.

Well, that’s a brilliant workaround until this is fixed. Thanks!

Freedom of expression is very much a two way street, and does not mean ‘free from consequences’ if someone says something vile.

I am quite free to make rules, and enforce them, for the communities I moderate, just as someone else is free to find a forum where, for example, they can express vile racist, homophobic slurs.

Tolerance cannot extend to tolerating others’ intolerance, or discourse is not possible.

This:

Article summarized by AI below

and this:

The article argues that artificial intelligence (AI) is not a threat to humanity

is a rather funny juxtaposition of statements. Of course, an evil AI that was a threat to humanity would summarize the article that way!

It’s coming. You said that ‘it’s been fixed in a recent release’, but no, it’s been fixed in latest version they’re working on right now that hasn’t been released yet. There is a release candidate being tested, but it has a few bugs still so there will be at least one more release candidate that has to be tested for a bit before being released.

User migration as well as community migration in case of instances going into a black hole would indeed be useful features.

This has been known for a while, but this information seems to be gaining more traction lately with the general public. The recommendations are to ensure you have an exhaust fan that vents to the outside above your range, and to use it each and every time your range is turned on. Of course, that’s not something most people do.

Not off the top of my head, but I have seen some that look different just by clicking on them in this list of various instances.

Install the Stylus extension, then go over to UserStyles.world and grab a script for it. There are already several there to change the look and feel of Lemmy, and I’m using one that gets it a bit closer to the old.reddit look. Just search for ‘Lemmy’ on UserStyles.world.

Anyways, what do you all think about the Lemmy website?

One of the cool things about Lemmy is that it isn’t one website. It’s dozens or even hundreds now. Each instance is its own website and some number of them have some interesting tweaks in the look and feel of their page.

This post on lemm.ee by the moderator of that instance has some information in it about that.