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Edit: But I can search, whereupon I found e.g. this reminder that mustard and onions are generally found on things called "sandwiches". 🥪🥖

Darge tgo bge differgent?

His name is...

“disliking” a post isn’t going to do anything

Not true - it seems designed to increase advertising revenue for the CEO:-P. That's... "something", technically? 🤪

They are focusing on enshittification

It is what they want - for them it is a "feature" to exist surely inside of their echo chambers. MANY Lemmy instances - hexbear.net and Lemmy.ml to name just a couple - are the same, banning people who even remotely disagree with them.

Profit-seeking is not the only cause of enshittification.

I like the way that PieFed implements this.

1. "Highly contentious users" i.e. those who are consistently heavily downvoted by "trusted instances" (I don't know the actual thresholds but imagine someone who receives 10x more downvotes than upvotes - and e.g. hexbear.net can be federated with but not "trusted" so that downvote brigading can be eliminated, unless ofc they use their non-HB alts but while nothing is perfect, every ounce of protection does help:-) are labeled, but there is currently no way that I am aware of to actually remove their content. Still, it helps to see that automatically-applied label as you scroll down, so that you can skip past it or at least realize that a reply is going to fall on deaf ears. People's reputations precede us irl so why not online as well, where it is so much easier to measure?

2. Individual content - posts and comments - that are highly contentious, according to user-defined thresholds, can be either automatically collapsed or even hidden. I personally disable both of these, but if someone wants to not see highly contentious content then this makes it happen for them. Similarly there are keyword filters - again nothing will ever be perfect but if you want to see less of e.g. Musk or Trump, then this is a method to help reduce the incoming flood of content related to such.

3. Communities have access to "community-specific" voting patterns. I know less about this aspect but generally the entire community or perhaps an individual post could be limited to community-specific rules, like a member can vote but a non-member drive-by commentor might be disallowed under certain conditions. Not every community should be this way and I hope most won't enable these features, but they are necessary sometimes - e.g. a community for and by women needs to exclude all the "don't you know that I am such a nice man"-splaining that will inevitably arise.

Anyway I love the hierarchy that distributes the work of moderation all the way from instance admins (for e.g. illegal content) through community mods (who have access to software to help them) and ultimately powers the end-users to control their own recipient of content, which they can change over time - e.g. rather than leave social media entirely they could enable some of the contentious user and/or keyword filter controls and thereby attain for themselves a break from the noise and hubub that the entire internet tends to prefer to throw at us all the time.

In contrast, whatever little moderation that Bluesky has is obviously insufficient - the problems of outright monotonization spam and high contentious users seems to have overwhelmed whatever capacity there was to handle such.

PieFed has really high me hope for the entire Fediverse.

Moderation seems sorely lacking on Bluesky. And did you read the comment in the OP article? It offered "I am such a nice man" vibes, though technically not entirely wrong either, yet failing to consider replies not offered in good faith nor the consent of the recipient to receive such shocks to their systems.

Maybe they took a Tylenol? /s

The owo at the end is what really sells it:-)

The managers pushing to replace developers by using AI:

Edit: especially not after you clear your schedule for the 3 hrs per day of project management meetings, for each of multiple projects...

No it doesn't!

Oh wait, yes it does.

Surely there are jobs that pay better... r-r-right?