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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From September to October Peertube’s MAU grew exponentially from 21.7k to 33.4k⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s serious stuff if true. I would often the upload date to avoid reuploads and regurgitated (and lower visual quality) content. It’s also extremely useful to know how outdated some advice or guide is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you also have to trust the servers which the accounts you’re messaging are stored on. (Although there are real situations where all users will be on the same server, where this is obviously a great benefit.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot moderation could be coming to your town⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha they thought it was too easy and were proven wrong!

  Honestly, if a place is obscure enough, even smaller barriers of entry help, like forums that don’t let you post on important boards until you build a reputation. There’s only so much effort an adversary is willing to put in, and if there isn’t a financial incentive or huge political incentive, that barrier could be low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot moderation could be coming to your town⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the first few instances I heard of was botsin.space, which has been around since at least 2017. Bots aren’t new. (Not sure where you’re pulling “AI” from, this is old* tech, and I don’t mean that negatively)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot moderation could be coming to your town⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played (briefly) with automated moderation bots on forums, and the main thing stopping me from going much past known-bad profiles (e.g. visited the site from a literal spamlist) is not just false positives but malicious abuse. I wanted to add a feature which would censor an image immediately with a warning if it was reported for (say) porn, shock imagery or other extreme content, but if a user noticed this, they could falsely report content to censor it until a staff member dismisses the report.

  Could an external brigade of trolls get legitimate users banned or their posts hidden just by gaming your bot? That’s a serious issue which could make real users have their work deleted, and in my experience, users can take that very personally.