I use Photon. It’s great.

I can’t remember if it was No Agenda Social or its successor No Authority Social, but I am quite sure that both are included in their blacklist.

Technically, they all fall under those rules in places like the EU already, those rules just aren’t being enforced.

Long-term, the Fediverse isn’t a social media platform, the instances are platforms, and they just connect to each other. I’d only expect enforcement on the few instances that are “large”, like a million users in size or more.

If instances choose to comply, either by capping users or shutting down, it could be good for decentralization of the network.

Yeah, it sucks! I used to use Moshidon until they blacklisted the only Mastodon instance I use lol

I asked the dude who made it to fix the blocklist and he said no

Did you reply to the right comment?

Haha! Now y’all know how it feels lol.

Not too long ago, some Lemmy users had to let Reddit refugees know that karma isn’t a thing on the Fediverse. People were making posts and deleting them after getting downvoted so that their karma wasn’t affected lol.

I don’t think that’s what’s happening here, but people deleting their posts after making them isn’t terribly unusual.

What’s RIF?

I didn’t even know that there was a Fediverse alternative to Pinterest. That’s enticing.

They can certainly self-host, it doesn’t mean you have to join those instances. Them making those instances would be good for adoption.

I’d like to see better interoperability, more bridges to other platforms, and more adoption, especially from people who claim to hate X or Elon Musk so much.

Theoretically, one could use Fediverse software to make standalone forums and/or social media platforms. However, not many have done this. Truth Social is the only one that comes to mind.

If you’re interested in running your own, I think you should be able to pick any Fediverse software you choose, install it on a server, and run it in a whitelist mode so that it doesn’t connect to other instances.

If your concern is random people being able to read and scrape your posts, I know that some Pleroma instances are also configured to not allow any pages or profiles to be public-facing, instead requiring a login if you want to visit anything other than the landing page (and even then, this restriction sometimes prevents any content in the feeds from loading when you are on the landing page).

At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

That is a cost that, historically, the type of instance that would block an LLM instance just for having AI bots has no problem with expending fourfold.

Since I presume that few users would try querying an LLM instance, and therefore few instances would likely even touch the LLM instance (again, remember, the posts would be unlisted), this is pretty much an imagined problem, even if the hypothetical LLM instance were to exist in reality.

There isn’t an effect if nobody on a server interacts with or queries unlisted posts or their posters on a different instance.

Load on which servers?

If those posts are unlisted, what would be the big deal about that slop being on the Fediverse?

A bot instance, like Botsinspace, populated with LLMs, would be rather interesting to observe.

lol

People delete their posts because they aren’t getting karma? That’s kinda sad.

This is horrible. And I say this as someone who’s had horrible experiences with users over there, particularly when it comes to bullying and harassment. They didn’t deserve to get shut down like this. Hope they’re able to fix whatever the problem is and get back up and running again.