People who use that phrase lack any sense of irony or self awareness.
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rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks agoGood Lord, you must be fun at parties.
jonathan@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
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rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks agoGood Lord, you must be fun at parties.
People who use that phrase lack any sense of irony or self awareness.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Eh? They were flooding the local timeline with bot posts for sunset etc times for many different locations, meaning likely several bot posts per hour. That would get them banned on pretty much any instance.
By their words: “Not worth the effort” to run your own instance my ass… don’t abuse a gratis public service with bot spam.
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
You really made me look…
There are 98 bots, each one was posting exactly once a day. That’s an average of one post every 14 minutes.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Not one for sunset and another one for dawn? But ok, I overestimated it a bit, but 4 posts per hour is still bot spam.
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
4 posts per hour on an instance with 12 thousand active users, and the only reason the mas.to admin found to complain about it is “it pollutes the local timeline”.
I’m sorry, this is beyond stupid. The bot was not abusing any hashtags, the bots were split among different locations precisely to make them relevant only for the people in a certain location. Yeah, OP could’ve changed the bots to “quiet public” listing, but (a) this is a new “feature” from Mastodon and (b) relevant only for people who are anal about the “local timeline”, which in an instance of 12 thousand people is as useful as any random firehose.
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
How many of these bots existed on Twitter and were used to illustrate the point that the API being open was important to have a thriving ecosystem?
But this is not even why I am calling out the parent. I just find it ridiculous that OP brings a whole list of more-than-reasonable issues with Mastodon (and by extension the Fediverse):
And to all of that, the first response that we find here is some completely irrelevant pontification about how one “shouldn’t be using a microblog to send notifications”?
Like, really? This is the type of things that we should be concerned about?
What’s next?
People shouldn’t write a “match threader” bot because “following sports updates is not the place for a discussion forum”?
For crying out loud, have we completely forgotten how to have fun here?
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
The bot issue is what both OP mainly quoted and also what the author of the article is complaining about as the issue that got them to quit. So you are wondering that people point out that this bot use is clear service abuse?
It only works on Twitter, because Twitter immediatly hides those bots via their algorithm, which apparently is also bad when the Mastodon instance admin suggested something very similar?
As for the rest of the article… mostly nonsense or rather a fundamental misunderstanding what ActivityPub wants to achive. Only point 3 and 6 have any merit and 6 can be easily solved by using another fediverse software.
rglullis@communick.news 4 weeks ago
I guess you are (like the parent I responded to) too hung up on a technicality and missing the forest for the trees.
You can bet that even if OP decided to use his own instance to run the bots, there would be admins that would find reason to complain. Why would I be so sure of that? Because that’s exactly what happened with alien.top.
Like any “exit interview” or “break up talk”, the exact reasons that make someone leave the platform is not the real signal. The real signal to me here is that ActivityPub had one person interested in building stuff (doesn’t matter if they are good or not), they were completely unwelcomed about it, and then they decided to move on to Bluesky.
Do you think that the Bluesky people are going to be nagging OP with this stupid “you can’t have fun here!” mentality? At the end of the day, where do you think newcomers will be more interested in trying out stuff? In our playground or on Bluesky’s?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Blocked for bot spam