That is a misconception! Star Trek is, in fact, a show about the weirdest chairs you've ever seen.

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Personal Note: Why oh why can't we have better microblogging interaction and I have to keep making the crossposts manually 🥲

Hey m@tes, a new lemmy version just dropped which adds some really good improvements, so it's time for a quick upgrade. Things I like particularly is finally emailing rejections and displaying rejection reasons in the UI.

Let us know if you experience any issues

Hey m@tes, as y'all know, this instance has been anti-corporate GenAI positive since it's creation and as such we've typically allowed such content to be posted freely. However in the last few weeks we've had a bunch of drama from GenAI haters who insist on coming into our comms and starting slap-fights. This caused us to vote on a new rule to have the mandate to clear out this constant friction. This worked to an extent, but I think we can help foster a better community with the larger threadiverse.

One issue a lot of anti-GenAI people keep bringing is that while they can block dedicated comms like !stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com, they don't have an easy option to avoid GenAI content in random other /0 comms as there's no way to filter it out. This kind of content has been seen to cause a lot of strife, because people complain about its existence, while /0 admins and mods based on the above rule, tend to sanction those complaining. This then causes drama loops with /c/YPTB and /c/FuckAI etc.

There is a good point to be made here that while we don't mind GenAI content in /0, there isn't a reason to not help others avoid it. So we want to institute the following soft rule by now:

Simply tag your posts which consist of primarily GenAI content with the [GenAI] tag in their title. Not only will frontends like Tesseract will natively parse this as a tag and display it accordingly, but people who dislike such content, can simply filter it out of their feeds. Eventually lemmy will add tags which will make this tagging more seamless, but for now a manual tag in the title will suffice.

This rule only applies to posts in non-explicit GenAI comms. The assumption is that people can simply block those comms completely anyway.

As I said, this is a soft rule for now. Soft in the sense that you're not going to be sanctioned for forgetting it, but we hope people will remind you to do so. This is a good-faith attempt by us to co-exist and help others avoid what they don't want to stumble onto, much like [NSFW] tags. So I hope you'll add do a good faith attempt to help us in this. Furthermore, people who come to posts tagged as GenAI explicitly to scold and start slap-fights, will give the admins and easier justification to clean up, since they could have just filtered out that content in the first place.

Cheers

New functionality can be configured through two new .env vars. You can use this functionality to deny things like known spam or potentially abuse of the registration form. In our instance for example we use it to autoblock people who put a word we explicitly say they shouldn't mention.

Cross-posted from "ADHD gaming" by @Stamets@lemmy.world in !gaming@lemmy.world

After yet another bot scraping wave forcing me to do sysadmin work at 3am, and me ranting about it on lemmy, @self@awful.systems linked me to a post that referenced iocaine which sounded a perfect way to get back on bots that don't respect our resources and time.

At the same time, we recently on-boarded @tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com as an extra sysadmin to reduce the "bus factor" of our instance (say hello), and they graciously offered some spare compute they had lying around. So I thought, since serving iocaine to bots doesn't really require any serious uptime, why not put it those resources to good use.

So after a couple of hours messing up with things, I've now deployed iocaine to protect our instance as well as fediseer. This should hopefully start messing back with these bastards by serving them some surrealistic nonsense I had squirreled away.

If you want to see this in action, set your user agent to GPTBot and visit our instance. If you find yourself trapped in iocaine somehow, just let us know.

Cross-posted from "me_irl" by @zedgeist@lemm.ee in !me_irl@lemmy.world

Recently I wanted to refer to the general populace of the divisions by zero, but it occurred to me we don't have a good shorthand for it,. I.e. like one talks about "lemmings" or "redditors". We could use something for members of lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Ideas?

The new release of Threativore adds Fediseer integration. It will allow you to keep your instance blocklist in sync with your fediseer censures. Not only that but the integration can be as fine-grained as you want, supporting collating multiple instance censures, filtering only censures with tags you want, or only censures collaborated by 1+ other instances etc.

Check out the usage manual for all the variables allowed.

For people who only want some basic protection, the default settings will by default protect you from all CSAM and bigoted instances as tagged by lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.world and lemmings.world. This should provide a good initial blocklist even if you don't populate fediseer yourself Bbut you can of course mix&match according to your needs.

This integration also prevents too many changes happening at one go in your blocklist. If threativore detects too many changes about to happen, it will ask for admin approval via DM before proceeding.

This sync will run every 10 minutes, so if you're following the censures of other instances and they discover a new bad actor, you'll be almost immediately protected, thus converting a fediverse weakness (information distribution) into a strength (information collaboration).

Let me know if you wish to see any improvements.