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Update from Lemmy after the Reddit blackout (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to donating come next month, sorry to hear the struggles with the funder as of late.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Keep up the good work y'all!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for all your work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the hard work, and also clearing up the whole genocide thing! ^^

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (11 children)

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.

Previous discussion on the moderation policy on lemmy.ml including response from @[email protected] : Expressing concerns about moderation policy on lemmy.ml
Accusation of a Mastodon user (probably the one they are referring to): https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
Essays from @[email protected]: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

None of what you linked supports any of the claims that they are a genocide supporter or a fascist, if that's what you tried to show (in fact you proved the complete opposite on the latter).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is doxxing. People have different usernames for a reason.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

See, it's all this stuff that really makes the

Such slander doesn’t deserve any response

statement feel very Steve Huffman to me. It very clearly does deserve a response because the problem doesn't end with just saying "nope lol that's not us" and people like me have to go digging through all this bullshit just to figure out the facts: they believe anti-China news and similar is U.S./media propaganda and will moderate opposing viewpoints with "Orientalism" bans and similar. That's not a hard statement to type, and if this viewpoint is in good faith then I struggle to see why they refuse to just say that and consistently resort to "if you don't like our moderation policy feel free to join/start a different instance!" without ever actually clarifying the moderation policy. Even lemmygrad pretty much says outright "if you like capitalism, fuck off."

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Only a very small fraction of the 27000 new members are capable of developing the platform, and many (like me) don't donate directly. However, members might be more willing to donate AI or other IT resources in an 'indirect' way.

There are 27000 members with access to an AI, that can code (more or less). There are also developer agent architectures like 'smol-ai', and 'gpt engineer' etc, that works directly on a code base, that could assist with the development. (https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and https://github.com/AntonOsika/gpt-engineer)

An AI could run through the git requests and create a list of 'easy' non blocking features to develop/fix, and the members developer architecture could take on one of these issues and do a pull request. Another way is for Lemmy to host such an architecture, and let members donate 'AI prompts', or even API keys (when accounting is possible) for common development.

The tooling/workflow integration isn't quite there yet to be helpful now, and the chance of Lemmy devs getting time for this right now is null.

But how fast could Lemmy development get with 2-300 member AI's working 24/7 on bugs/features ? I'm not a developer, so I don't know how to set up such an AI assisted development workflow. But it could be done, and development speed of ALL open source projects in general would skyrocket with an open to join 'AI developer architecture'.

Hey, we could even have a global federated FOSS AI developer architecture, and people/smaller AI architectures with cool ideas for open projects could request global FOSS AI developer time for their idea/project. I'm sure someone is already working on something like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and many (like me) don’t donate directly

But you pay for API keys?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, that would be 'indirectly' just as we pay for electricity and hardware given to Boink or similar distributed computing, but psychologically it can make a huge difference. However, the exact method is imho less important than creating an AI workflow to assist in development of Lemmy et al. API keys can also come free trials, from private servers using https://localai.io/ or similar services with an API/Key.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're going to learn very quickly that the anti-corporate world of fediverse despises nfts, ai, crypto, and everything aligned with the silicon valley techbro-brained idiots that have taken over the existing mainstream internet. It's going to highlight to you what a bubble reddit is for one specific opinion on most topics.

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