Honestly a bot moderator is just open source enshittification of the fediverse if you did it like this. Bots have no nuance, do not understand context and are generally unable to apply reason to a situation.

The most egregious suggestion is user name based bans, this is 100% going to remove a bunch of users without real cause. Or having automod comment the same irrelevant headline on every single post is just causing spam and kills the comment count function.

In my opinion the bots should do all the tediousness for the moderators, and there may even be scenarios where a bot content filter could be invaluable, but in general any tool you put out there will also be used to its fullest extent by at least one person.

Like cops with too many powers, eventually they abuse it for everything.

Half the features are helpful and the others are obnoxious or useless reddit vestiges. Auto banning users, locking communities, deleting posts is all rather harmful and not conducive to interesting discussion and posts. Welcome messages and auto mod comments on every post are also plain terrible.

Make a slim bot with moderation tools that helps mods and admins to do their tasks more efficiently and comfortably, but dont offload the mod role itself to the bot. That is one of the worst parts if reddit.

The bot isn’t for your convenience but the moderators, obviously.

SCeNic Route? 👀

To be fair, the blog post details how they plan on avoiding such an issue in the future

Well I agreed that it is an ultimately bad change, but I can see how the beginner mode mentality would lead to this conclusion. Provide the new user with the most stable and bug free experience possible, and after some time they will probably turn that setting off on their own to get all that popular software.

I dont know, it is just the general consensus on every “I want to drop windows but i am scared of Linux” post ever made, and from my personal experience I found it actually too much like windows (made a live boot before I chose another distro).

I think it is a stupid change myself, but as far as I (recent Linux convert) can tell, mint is considered the go to distro for people coming freshly over from windows, and decidedly caters to beginners. A default setting for maximum user protection makes sense for that.

I can long hold any post to open the options menu, one being to crosspost, another to share. From there i can choose to copy the link no problem

Edit: looks like this

Perhaps its a federation issue?

I doubt it is the nickname feature since according to the person who first brought up the feature responded to the first person bringing it up their chosen nickname is different from what I can see, which is their actual account name. Refer to the according comments further up

Pretty sure we always see the actual user name, but not the custom nicknames.

Please don’t apologize for wanting to be helpful! At least I learned about a new feature that is essentially hidden from me as a mobile only user. Good to know!

Looking at this from Voyager you have no custom name displayed, it is just “AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world“. My guess is that voyager doesn’t show those, same as with profile pictures.

If they retreated from the German market out of spite I could see the government voiding their rights and patents. Can’t have rights to things you dont offer here. Then they’d end up with sanctioned piracy of their stuff. I dont think Microsoft would be that idiotic.

It isnt so much “we" as in humanity, it is a select few very ambitious and very reckless corpos who are pushing for this, to the detriment of the rest (surprise).

If “we” were able to reign in our capitalists we could develop the technology much more ethically and in compliance with the public good. But no, we leave the field to corpos with delusions of grandeur (does anyone remember the short spat within the openai leadership? Altman got thrown out for recklessness, investors and some employees complained, he came back and the whole more considerate and careful wing of the project got ousted).

Fair enough

I recently ran into that very issue, leading to me downloading (one foss) third party clients for discord which are privacy focused. As long as discord is still the place to be I have to be there too, but I can certainly limit the data they can gather about me. I found

• goofcord for desktop (supports plugins too)
• aliucord for android

Perhaps they are an option for you too

Will do, thank you!

That would be convenient indeed, thanks!

Oh I completely missed those, amazing! Fits in with my other apps nicely now. Thanks anyway for a fantastic client