OpenStars

Step 1, push for the demise of society. Make sure to abolish all rules that would otherwise stop you.

Step 2, make a cute ^(TM)^ doll in the most addictive manner possible.

Wait, I skipped a step 0, discard all ~~previous instructions~~ sense of morality, hollowing out your soul in the pursuit of temporary vanity.

The rest is ~~like~~ literally taking candy from babies.

Not nearly enough AI, bro. Gotta add more AI, bro. C'mon bro, you know you want to... maybe just a little, as a treat?

Agreed, for something that specific to PieFed.:-)

If it helps, I would like if a community moderator had both options (for either a post or a comment) - to scrub entirely (for e.g. CSAM) or to just remove the link from the community along with OP's content but leaving the responses that it spawned beneath it intact (and if possible, still viable). As a mod of a medium-to-small community on Reddit, I often had to remove posts yet still continued to discuss things with the OP, like the reason why I felt that I had to do it, and/or others could likewise continue the discussions that they had already started.

i.e., it would be good if content could be "owned" by the person who wrote it, subject to mod & admin approvals for how it may "fit in" at the community and instance levels. e.g., a reply is "content" that should not as readily disappear just because the OP was, or had to be, removed.

So that also overlaps into a second thing, the distinction between removing vs. locking - especially since we have no modmail here, and all the more so for communities that just say that the content was removed by a "mod". e.g. someone posting and then going to bed or work could check in later to find their content removed, and as things now stand better than previously, at least get a sense of why it might have been (as opposed to simply a "not found" message on a white background screen OH MY EYES WHILE IN DARK MODE AAAAGGHH!!).

Good things brewing takes time to percolate, for sure... :-)

Now I need to work on a meme (that somehow won't get me banned from Fediverse memes) like "typical response time for PieFed feature request: 16 minutes".

And nyan cats too.

The World Wide Web *was* a decentralized system, once upon a time. Technically it still is today, but greatly diminished in that respect. It is looking like tools such as the Fediverse are perhaps the only method to offer hope to fight against that trend?

pm? 😁