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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • NixOS Review: The Most Powerful Linux Distro in 2026?

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  • Reproducibility. Once everything is set up, you can copy your exact configuration, with all the packages and tweaks, to another system via a few configuration files. If your system crashes, as long as you have your configs, you can do a clean install and apply your changes in a few commands.

    The other benefit is that it's immutable-ish. You can make non-permanent changes to test out new software or customized configurations, but none of that is permanent until you make it so; even then, you can roll back to a previous version if needed.

    But I agree that it's a huge amount of effort for those (arguably very good) benefits. I've tried several times to wrap my head around it, and I just can't seem to get over that learning curve, partly because I want to get using my system right away.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • I don't know that I'd be on board for clamping to zero. You would have to decide if you are going to have a weighted zero (i.e. secret negative tally), and if so, why bother with clamping? If not, why have downvotes?

    Scoring just demonstrates popularity. It's a voluntary poll, and it has no bearing on the quality or validity of someone's comment. I've seen good posts go unnoticed, and I've seen bad ones get lots of points. Voluntary polls are almost useless as a metric, and especially for a system like this one where all you have to do is click a button, it's even less useful than one where you are required to write a statement about why you voted the way you did.

    I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to have downvotes as a way to gauge popularity, if that's a metric they want to use to filter their content, nor do I think they should be forced to experience the Fediverse my way. I am however saying that reporting helps everyone, regardless of whether downvoting is enabled or not (plus it has the added benefit of potentially removing content that doesn't belong; server space is a premium here, after all). We have options here on the Fediverse, and it's a small ask to use the reporting feature and not assume there's a "correct" or "standard" way to experience Lemmy. We can create something better than Reddit.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • Not having. Enforcing.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • If better means "more inclusive," then yes. It's better. Did I say to stop downvoting? No. Did I tell people to abandon their downvoting-enabled instances? No (though have a look and see how I've been told multiple times to leave mine).

    Dunno why people are hellbent on excluding people who don't want optional downvotes when non-optional reporting exists.

    But do go on about how I'm excluding the poor instances with downvotes by recommending an inclusive action that they also benefit from.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • It's not basic functionality. It's optional, and I don't want it. So, no thank you.

    The insistence that everybody experience the Fediverse in a particular way is what makes centralized services garbage and prone to enshittification.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • If you mean a mod from this comm, I'd love some clarity on this matter, too.

    But as a general application, what would that tell you? Moderators aren't some special class of people; they're regular people who volunteer.

    The better question is: what would you do if you were a moderator? Would you want to review and remove a post that was potentially AI slop, or would you keep it and let users rely on downvotes and sorting?

    For my part, if a particular community's mods aren't interested in clamping down on AI slop, then I know where I don't want to be.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • You're supposed to report posts that break instance or community rules, not whatever you happen to consider to be "bad faith".

    This isn't Reddit. Mods aren't beholden to some set of standards handed down by moneyed interests. They're real people with (hopefully) common sense and a desire to create something better than Reddit.

    Besides, even if your instance has disabled downvotes, other instances can still see them.

    That's my point. If instances like mine can't see downvotes, it's excluding people like me, because people can't be bothered to report. Furthermore, all it is is a popularity contest. "A bunch of people don't like it" is no guarantee you won't, nor does it demonstrate that the content is in fact garbage; it just shows a bunch of people don't like it.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • On your instance, yes. Those downvotes get dropped on my side, so I can't see them, and neither can anyone else on a non-downvote instance. My proposal would address the issue of slop for everyone, whereas downvote proponents are just saying, "Yeah, well my way is better. Lemmy is only for people who do it my way."

    If this thread is a lesson in anything, it's that the bad habits of Reddit carried over, and people are so fucking lazy, they can't be bothered to click the report button.

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  • I fundamentally disagree with downvotes, so changing instances isn't an option. Just report it. It helps everyone and it removes it from the Fediverse, not just pushes it to the bottom of a list by the arbitrary metric of popularity.

  • Linux & Theming - The Ultimate Guide

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  • Excellent guide! I'll have to look at this more intentionally when I'm at my Linux machine.

  • Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam?

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  • No. My instance doesn't have downvotes. You downvoting a post does nothing for instances like mine.

    Report that shit instead. There's no reason it needs to stay on the Fediverse.

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  • My instance has downvotes turned off (which I like). That action only benefits people who care about downvotes.

    The better option that helps everyone is to report bad faith posts.

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  • So yes. Use the report tool and downvote it to oblivion.

    My instance doesn't have downvotes, so reporting is the most effective remedy for everyone's benefit

  • Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.

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  • It was originally built to creep on college women, so creeping on its users more generally now is just a continuation of exactly what it was built for.

  • How do you pronounce daemon?

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  • "DAH-ay-mon," I choose you! Use your exec ~/thunder_sma.sh!

  • How do you pronounce daemon?

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  • No, dæmon

  • Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne

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  • Waiting for the AI rapture to take all these fuckwits away.

  • Interesting video on why apparently moltbot and other AI agents are dangerous

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  • I think it's good you're learning about this. These are known problems, and they've existed from the beginning, but because there's a fuckton of money greasing various palms, nobody with the power to do anything about it is doing anything about it. Just those rascally techbro scamps at it again, gosh darn it! /s

    Keep learning, and warn your friends. The fewer people fatuously using this garbage, the better society will be.

  • You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

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  • There's something nice about the phrase "decrypt the blob."