No, not because a user was annoying everyone else. Because the developer seemed to have a personal beef against people who commit the crime of [*checks notes*] not behaving neurotypically on the internet, and went on to impose a collonialistic, imperialistic punishment (censoring of national language) on them. See: Spain vs. Cataluña.
Oh yeah, they made a statement about to “inconvenience AIs somewhat”, which is not bad and is something that honestly more of us should be doing. The conformists claim that AIs can easily deal with such annoyances but that’s the point. They still have to do the work, and we can poison the meaning of the data they collect (intentionally or incidentally), kinda like what happened with AIs suddenly starting to use em dashes for everything.
All that said, none of that merits the kind of backend-level censorship that was applied to that user. How can I trust a platform that offers a certain level of trust if my messages are being altered behind my back? How can I be sure that my statement anti AI are not being modded into pro-AI statements, for example? Even more if I’m being specifically targetted? Rimu simply does not, currently, offer that kind of trust of person, which is one of the reasons I’ve made no effort, nor plan to in the short term, into piefed as of yet.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Iirc, a thing was added that converted the thorn character to a th because some user was annoying everyone by using thorns instead of ths.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
No, not because a user was annoying everyone else. Because the developer seemed to have a personal beef against people who commit the crime of [*checks notes*] not behaving neurotypically on the internet, and went on to impose a collonialistic, imperialistic punishment (censoring of national language) on them. See: Spain vs. Cataluña.
Skavau@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
This is a really dramatic observation. The user did it specifically, if I recall, to try and evade AI detection or something.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
They thought it poisoned llms (it didn’t, and they ignored people who mentioned it). Not to evade any ai thing.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Oh yeah, they made a statement about to “inconvenience AIs somewhat”, which is not bad and is something that honestly more of us should be doing. The conformists claim that AIs can easily deal with such annoyances but that’s the point. They still have to do the work, and we can poison the meaning of the data they collect (intentionally or incidentally), kinda like what happened with AIs suddenly starting to use em dashes for everything.
All that said, none of that merits the kind of backend-level censorship that was applied to that user. How can I trust a platform that offers a certain level of trust if my messages are being altered behind my back? How can I be sure that my statement anti AI are not being modded into pro-AI statements, for example? Even more if I’m being specifically targetted? Rimu simply does not, currently, offer that kind of trust of person, which is one of the reasons I’ve made no effort, nor plan to in the short term, into piefed as of yet.
Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
That sounds like a great feature ngl
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Indeed, Icelanders shouldn’t be allowed to use their language on fediverse. English only or gtfo.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Mámate esta con tu inglés exclusivo.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 4 weeks ago
I only support the inclusion of the feature if there’s also an option to convert all
ths into thorns. Fair is fair.ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Which would appropriate for a client-side user-level filter instead of a server-side instance-admin hard-coded setting.