Notices by Andy (pixel@desu.social)

@lain @kaia tariffs on holy water

Absolute AI dystopia: AI bros are calling soft hyphens/em-dashes "ChatGPT watermarks" now. 💀

@puniko yo puni! wie geht's, wie steht's?

good morning, fedi!

TIL that you need to sign up for this years GPN ;_;

I'm honestly in shock that Pixelfed made a Kickstarter getting $100k.

Even worse, a Kickstarter campaign that has no definitive deliverables in the goals.

The primary goals of the campaign are "Accelerating the development of Pixelfed and Loops", not "building features X, Y and Z in n time".

Congratulations in giving someone who already has proven to mostly not deliver (or deliver extremely late) free money.

good for her

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#revision2025 #revisionparty

@mia people doing the most obnoxious things "in protest", instead of thinking for a moment. Because the main issue in that case was that a rule that is loosely enforced (Hetzner doesn't have time to check every server for porn) was triggered by someone making a hate-fueled/malicious report.

@Jain so am I :ablobfoxhyper:

"started" a VN book club and so far everyone mentioned in their introductory posts that they want to read Higurashi.

that's going to be good

Just finished an Endless Mode run in Haste (or rather, I died) after 88 fragments...that sure was long.

Software projects releasing on April Fools always confuse me on being legit or not and I tend to search for some disclaimer that tells me so :neocat_woozy:

@hj it's when you primarily code with AI without having much of an idea, just "vibing" so to say.

Incredibly stupid because the people that popularized that term do very well know how to code, that's just how they sell it to non-techies.

That was an entirely avoidable thing and I'm sorry that Puni had to deal with two immature groups wrestling in the mud with each other.

@Erpel Honestly, both sides were egging this on, this wasn't just the Rentry people.

I've looked at Fragsturztaube since the shutdown and it's very obvious that people are kinda aggreviated when they get hit with "look at these normies" and other things.

@ricky @Erpel not moderating harassment is a genuinely bad take.

what you can skip out on moderating is opinions and stuff that isn't happening on your very own website.

you yourself egged on with the community quite early and immature as the others are they did that bad stuff, not to be excused. But people left because of the impression you made on them, some because of either things or because of said moderation ruling, they didn't go elsewhere and took their harassment with them.

@ricky You are getting off the wrong foot entirely in the first place. They never read the ToS, and you told them "I adjusted this and removed the paragraphs that forbid x and y" prompting their responses.

You could have just left it with "I adjusted the ToS to be more fitting to the community and moderation needs" and you wouldn't have gotten some people testing the waters.

@ricky regarding the ToS, they might have been indeed outdated, some stuff like the "noncompete" thing even being from a time where RS wasn't even open source.

However, leaving the terms as vague as this allows freedom in moderation.

You can be hyper-specific and still shoot yourself in the foot.

If someone can't take an opinion, you don't act on the report. And that's why you also don't make yourself known as staff, because then people can't complain to you and that anger will subdue quickly

@ricky absolute rules don't work in a social setting, that'll just lead to users leaving when the people that "play by the rules" take over.