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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Healthy for Lemmy, totally catastrophic for Pixelfed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know this comment is satire (well done... I think) but I want you to it hurt me deep in my bones.

Cheers

I'm clearly not paying enough for a therapist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Then moderators make many stupid rules to try to increase quality and overmoderation takes hold

This is so true. One of the best decisions I made during my tenure as mod of /r/StarTrek was changing the rules to be spirt-based instead of language-based. People will literally try to lawyer their way around the language of any rule, and it leads to mod burnout when they are getting drawn into rules-debates when it's obvious the person is just trying to get around the spirit of the community's purpose.

For example we had a rule that was literally just "be nice". There's no wriggling around that because it's not some legal text. If someone is ""concerned"" about a request to "be nice" or "be honest", they are not someone we wanted to be around anyway. These are discussion communities, not civil society, not everyone has a right to participate in every single one of them.

As you said the beauty of the fediverse is that each instance can have it's own preferred method of discussion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Urban dictionary says it's a term that refers to when an undercover government agent fails to blend in with whoever they're trying to blend in with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely, if you're seeing propaganda, it's because it's allowed on that instance. But the presence of propaganda has nothing to do if an account is an LLM or not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Moderation on the Feviderse is different than on commercial platforms because it's context-dependent instead of rules-dependent. That means that a user accout (bot or otherwise) that does not contribute to the spirit of a community will not be welcomed.

There is largely no incentive to run an LLM that is a constructive member of a community, bots are built to push an agenda, product, or exhibit generally disruptive behavior. Those things are unwelcome in spaces built for discussion. So mods/admins don't need to know "how to identify a bot", they need to know "how to identify unwanted behavior".

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Took a long time, but nice to see this topic getting mainstream attention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is literally the answer lmao why are you getting downvoted.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

OP if you enjoy a fun weekend project, don't go with a pi-hole. It literally only takes about 5 minutes. Also I recommend the blocklistproject lists https://blocklistproject.github.io/Lists/

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

Honestly curious what kind of content you believe requires less effort to post than an image macro?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Haha, Ulrich I noticed you on several threads the past few days correcting misinformation, thank you for your service.

 

I'm trying to be more mindful about my YouTube consumption, there are a lot of quality channels out there, but sticking to "subscriptions" is difficult when the YouTube app on my TV has so much distracting recommended content and shorts thrown at you, so I'd like to have a way to auto-download the content from specific channels to play later via Plex. I actually have YT Premium but plan on putting the money into the Patreons of my most-watched creators instead.

Features I'm looking for:

  • Automated downloading of new videos from specific channels
  • Ability to ignore/skip shorts
  • SponsorBlock if possible
  • Vimeo (and others) integration would be a huge plus too.
  • A way to easily add videos to a download queue manually (browser extension or something) for when I come across an interesting video in the wild" by someone I'm not subscribed to/don't want to subscribe to.

Things I've looked into:

  • TubeSync - returns 500 errors anytime it's indexing, which it does every day, meaning setup is very tedious. It's also frustrating to configure for every single channel independently, but (ostensibly) does what I'm looking for? I think?
  • TubeArchivist - Try as I might I just cannot get this up and running on CasaOS/Docker. Seems nice, but also looks like overkill for my use case.
  • YoutubeDL-Material - Struggling to get this installed too, but it also doesn't seem to have additional features like SponsorBlock.

Anything I'm missing or are these basically the main options for now? Would love something as simple as Sonarr.

 

My goal is to create an simple offsite backup of my CasaOS setup using a RasPi 3b+ with external USB drive at a friend's house. Are there any recommended methods for doing this?

Also: what should I look for in an external hard drive as far as reliability goes for something that will essentially always be on? I'm not well versed in all the WD blue, red, etc. Does it matter?

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