I don’t think that it will cause a controversy; almost all Lemmy hates racists. And it’s fine as long as you’re 1) consistent with who you ban, and 2) transparent on why you do it.

And, like, there’s always that bitter taste in the mouth when you ban someone, but as you see the comm thriving it makes you think “I did the right thing”.

Most of the time it’s a bad idea to ban people based on behaviour outside your “turf”, but there are some exceptions - and this is clearly one of them, the mere presence of the user in your community is bound to make it less safe to the others.

No, I only saw it after I solved the problem.

OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.

Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over “his” precious data (i.e. users’) + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.

Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then “if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick”, then on how you don’t really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it’s the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren’t really yours.

[Sorry for the rambling.]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

This process has been happening since ChatGPT was released. And it’ll only get worse.

And when are those corporations get that people hate this sort of system? Ask Clippy.

The findings reinforce a few things that I’ve seen in this series of videos, about the Alt-Right Playbook; one of them is that engaging the perpetrator is mostly a waste of time.

For context, it’s somewhat common here in Latin America to name markets after the owner’s name; doubly so in smaller cities. (The city where this happened has 9k inhabitants)

It’s also common to name supermarkets “Super [something]”, to highlight that it sells general goods instead of just produce.

With that out of the way: seriously? Nintendo going after a mum-and-dad market in a small city in North America??? This only highlights that the current trademark and intellectual property laws across the world are toilet paper - they aren’t there to defend “healthy competition” or crap like that, but to ensure megacorps get their way. Screw this shit and screw Nintendo - might as well rename their company to Ninjigoku/任地獄, bloody hell.

Sounds like a cool premise for an educative game. I hope that it’s fun too, but usually you play this sort of game to learn, not to say “OMG I HAD A BLAST YESTERDAY PLAYING IT!”.

Therapy is not kawaii. Any further question?

My neighbour’s cat (Luna) does the same. She lives dangerously because my cat (Kika) is fed up with this shit.

AND NO, LUNA, I’M NOT PETTING YOU. Stop asking. You’re getting out.

As I mentioned in another thread, I don’t think that he’ll be able to attract chip makers to USA. Instead I think that he’ll kick every industry relying on those chips out of USA.

It seems that your idea is fairly solid already on what to do, then. That’s great!

Initially I was thinking on how this is such a blatantly bad idea. I don’t think that it’ll attract chip makers to USA, but instead send the industries relying on those chip makers to other countries. Because as the text says it takes years to build a chip factory, and those industries downstream simply won’t wait.

Then it clicked me - government debt. He might be trying to find new sources of income for the United-Statian government. They only need to last four years - if they ruin the economy later on, it is not his problem.

I’ve seen a lot of people trying to guess if this was the result of some AI mod false positive or intentional. Well, it doesn’t really matter here, because:

1. Meta is in a position that it should be held responsible for what it promotes vs. what it silences. “We HaD GoOd InTeNsHunS” my arse, go pave Hell with them.
2. Meta apparently is a-OK removing protections against hate speech, because some dictator of some taco country demanded. But apparently the system (be it surplus value-based or slop-based) still works for other stuff?

I think that society as a whole should fight back against this shit. Since everyone and their dog is blocking Twitter now, perhaps Faecesbook + Threats + Instaslop should be the next?

So, you want to give your userbase creative freedom, without allowing it to attack itself or marginalised groups. Is this right? Here’s what I’d suggest:

Rule: fanfics featuring prejudice must not show it in a positive light.

This rule alone would shoo 90% of the potential bigots, who’d likely cry about “muh freeze peaches”, but still allow people to have bigotry in their fanfics.

Rule: fanfic discussion must be kept on-topic.

If there’s something that bigots love to do, it’s to pick on some loose end of a discussion, then pull and pull it until the discussion gravitates around their pet issue; this rule would make short work of this tactic. It’s also useful to improve general quality of the discussions.

[If allow RP at all] Rule: Roleplay is only allowed in a specific subforum / community.

Some people actually like to RP their OCs; to each their own, I guess? Either way, if you let people RP all over the instance/forum/site some might use it to say “ackshyually I was RPing” to attack other members.

Don’t feel afraid to change the rules as you go. You’ll get a thousand problems that nobody could predict, it’s fine to address them. As long as you do it transparently, it’s fine.

A few additional points:

Keep a close watch on users who gravitate around certain specific topics. Most of them should be OK, but some might be looking for trouble. Look specially for signs of sealioning.

Recruit mods with good reading comprehension and who are OK reading huge walls of text. You’ll need it for subtleties like distinguishing “the MC is racist and this is shown as a character flaw” versus “the MC is racist because the user is self-inserting”.

Social media is full of a certain type of user full of “good intentions”, who points fingers at other users based on weak reasons (such as poor reading, assumptions, etc.); for example, if you say “Hitler was shit but this has nothing to do with him eating bread!”, they’ll pick on that “but” and claim that you’re a Nazi. Well, I call those “witch hunters”. Don’t let witch hunters in your community - they make people feel insecure to approach certain topics, and they indirectly help the ones whom they allegedly fight against.

I also feel like your idea leans more towards an old style forum than a Lemmy instance. So perhaps NodeBB is a better choice in your case.

Automatic ban? PTB unless 1) the ban is because of a domain associated with spam, and 2) there’s an appeal procedure for false positives.

If I’m reading it right, I also disagree with it, on a practical level; it’s like herding cats and not enough. I also think that an instance for women is the way to go, at least at the start.

However, to be fair with drag those actions aren’t mutually exclusive, and even if only a few admin teams keep a closer watch on sexism, it’s already improving the situation.

Likely for succinctness. I’ve also seen people listing only the nominative, specially when they’re OK with 2+ pronouns; e.g. “she/they”.

Feel free to use it for the Matrix community if you want! Or this sub. Or… dunno, any space that you want, to your hearts’ contents :3