Hazelnoot [she/her]

Validating output should be much easier than generating it yourself. P≠NP.

This is very much not true in some domains, like software development. Code is much harder to read than it is to write, so verifying the output of a coding AI usually takes more time (or at least more cognitive effort) than if you’d just written the code yourself.

wait you’re serious? this isn’t satire???

Disclaimer: I administrate multiple Sharkey instances and am one of the project maintainers, so I’m likely quite biased. Please take my opinions with a grain of salt!

1. I’ve used Mastodon, Akkoma, and various Misskey forks (Calckey, FireFish, and now Sharkey). The former felt very much like a corporate platform, complete with the “polished feel” you’d expect. Someone unfamiliar could easily mistake it for Twitter. Akkoma is quite the opposite - it feels like an indie software hosting forgotten subcultures in a quiet corner of the internet. Misskey-based software is somewhere in the middle, and feels more like an MMO than a social network sometimes.
2. Mastodon moderation is clearly geared towards structured and (semi-)professional moderation teams. The mod tooling supports coordination between multiple moderators and records detailed audit logs for quick catch-up on a particular user’s history of staff interactions. Akkoma, again, feels like moderating a classic PHP forum backend. The tooling options are either high-level and barebones, or low-level but extremely powerful. Misskey forks vary, a lot. Vanilla Misskey has relatively poor moderation support, and is clearly meant for communities with a fairly “hands-off” approach. Calckey/FireFish improve this somewhat, and Sharkey has put moderation as a key focus with support for granular restrictions beyond just “silence or suspend”. Community wise, I feel that Mastodon users tend to over-report, and Mastodon admins under-moderate. Akkoma users rarely report anything, but admins set up intricate MRF rules to enforce detailed restrictions and limits. Misskey users report about as much as Mastodon users, while admins often over-moderate and jump directly to instance-level restrictions in response to minor user-level issues.
3. I do, at least in general. The quality of moderation on fedi is a mixed bag. A few instances do very well, some do well enough, and many more just moderate the bare minimum or not at all. I regularly see users complain of harassment from sources that have been known for years. No qualified moderation team should allow federation with poa.st, for example, and yet many do. But Beehaw’s staff have shown a commitment to their roles, and the community has consistently backed them up with reliable reporting and a solid effort to maintain the community health. I think our people could do very well in the larger fediverse space.

here’s an archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20250118011532/http://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/intersex-health-equity-report.pdf

Isn’t that a classic corporate raid technique? Sell the company’s assets to you or an organization you control, then lease them back to the original owners.

This isn’t just about teens - the article shows that every age under 45 is less happy, and - excluding a brief bump in the late 20s - people just keep getting unhappy as they get older. There’s no “it gets better” age to look forward to.

oh so it would just be app-based MFA but without using TOTP. That makes sense

I’m confused about how this is supposed to act as a second authentication factor 🤔

I see, thank you for explaining!

what’s the concern with channel blockers? /genq

I’m glad to help! 😊

glad I could help! 💙

Aren’t ideas like, the easiest part of making a game??

From the Privacy Policy:

Your Location

When you create an account, we ask you to share your location with us through the App in order to use all features. We use your location to determine your distance from other users and to help you find personals and missed connections in your area. We collect this information automatically by collecting your Internet Protocol address and your Unique Device ID. It is possible to opt out of sharing your location at sign up, but app functionality is limited.

yeah, don’t use this app.

I have concerns about this site, tbh. I can’t find anything overtly wrong, but a few things stand out:

• Unclear focus / purpose. (is this for dating? social interaction? both?)
• App-only model, but with a read-only webview for some reason. (Why would you do this, except to allow anonymous scraping and/or collect extra data?)
• Supposedly built by a solo trans person, who somehow has resources to create a website and two separate apps.
• Includes an iOS app, which has hurdles that few indies are able to deal with.
• Closed-source, no clear ownership or transparency.
• App collects location data, according to Google.

It could just be my paranoia speaking, but I’d advise against using this. It feels like a honeypot or some kind of trap.

Seeing this right next to the thread about TikTok being banned in the US…

Just renewed my library card, and apparently it’s been 17 years since I last used it. The staff did a double-take when she read the date 😅

I never learned it, even though all my classmates did (2000s) 😅

what

same, I was ready for this to be some transphobic thing and was pleasantly surprised!