web interface indicates the shield is “speak as moderator”, i assume this is intended to highlight or distinguish a comment as a moderator speaking officially on behalf of the channel, as opposed to a normal comment with a moderator speaking for themselves personally. i can find API documentation and a github issue around this feature but can’t see any documentation yet

a better solution is to decouple the query from individual api requests by adding a caching layer. we’ll get there eventually

Just saying…

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/08/florida-gun-owners-encouraged-shoot-storm-fire-guns-hurricane/

I’m trying an instance-specific link, it isn’t working.

if you click https://lemmy.world/comment/2024416 what do you see? i see nothing, just a blank page

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I love U 235

Great instance review, thank you! FYI your markdown links are broken, switch the brackets, links are [like] (this) not (like)[this]

A lot of mobile apps don’t display community banners, and they’re how a lot of people interact with lemmy.

Ah, ok. So if lemmy.world dies, but !somecommunity@lemmy.world was federated to 2 different other instances, those instances wouldn’t be able to “talk to each other”? They’d just have snapshots that they could locally interact with, but never see anything else? So is the fate of the Lemmyverse a graveyard of communities from dead instances?

meaning you could read my reply on a community that basically no longer exists

oh really? does it actually work this way? if lemmy.world dies, can all its communities continue to live on as long as there are lemmy instances out there federated and subscribed?

I wonder about this as well – because communities are tied to a specific home instance, that instance going down affects that community, potentially killing it. Something more akin to hashtags/tags/labels wouldn’t be tied to an instance so they would be more robust, though you’d lose the moderation of a community and just have a firehose of posts/comments…

It’s called a single-point of failure in Engineering.

For that instance, yes. For the whole of Lemmy, no. Everything else keeps on chugging along.

yes, you can subscribe to any community that has been federated. search communities “all” or just go to !moviesandtv@lemmy.film

Perfect! Thanks 😊

!personalfinance@lemmy.ml

ah ok, looking at https://openai.com/pricing

i am wondering about protecting the fediverse from bad actors as it increases in popularity. i haven’t seen many yet but i assume they will be on their way.

one approach would be that used by /r/BotDefense, which involves investigating suspected bots’ post history and classifying them as either good/bad based on their cumulative activity and then taking further action based on that. does this seem like a reasonable application of ChatGPT?

i’m open to other approaches and/or tools, i’m just trying to think ahead and your bot got me thinking.

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world i am interested in bot detection on a nascent social media site. can you expand on what you know about dedicated bot-detection tools and how they might be integrated?

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world given a user’s post history how confident are you that you can classify an account as a bot vs. a human? can you be used to moderate a community?