(Oh how cutely innocent you are…)

uncovered with the help of AI

So, how many of those are actually real?

Not my fault if the title lies and there’s actually nothing bad about Cosmic, but that’s not my point. My point is before talking bad about others, take a look at yourself.

The AI disclosure is important. Which one, where, how and why. Just to show an example why it’s important, it’s basically the same as this thing that is absolutely needed and normal in the food industry precisely because we allow people to do things the wrong way:

This food product is processed in the same tanks, conveyors belts and filters that also process Imperiling Allergen.

One would ask KDE devs to do some self-reflection and look at the use of AI in KDE, before talking about what other people “do wrong”.

Claude Code and other LLM coding frameworks have a habit of inserting themselves into git commits as contributors, so KDE wants to avoid that as well. They deserve as much attribution as your linter; precisely none.

It’s not about attribution. It’s about this:

This food product is processed in the same tanks, conveyors belts and filters that also process Imperiling Allergen.

Our food industries for example have this because it is necessary to know, the damage (potential and real) otherwise is too great, in our food cases it even involves death, and in the case of AI it might as well do as AI is used in the genocide of Palestinians.

I say this in all of these threads: more users does not mean a better experience.

It does when your current amount of users is functionally equivalent to, like, “2”.

I really like your idea of “baby’s first instance”. And then they are sent off the nest.

That’s why you are supposed to pick an instance that does most of that work for you: one that will have already blocked what you don’t like.

The banlist is public but is essentially a hassle of an Excel spreadsheet to crawl through, what would be nice would be having some sort of public “moderation trends” (broad-strokes view of what have we been blocking and will continue to do so) and “moderation commitments” (eagle view of what will happen when you report a post to us).

unlike

Google does a lot of “defederating” (for lack of a better term), it’s one of the reasons why setting up and hosting your own email is one of the nightmare sections of selfhosting communities.

Coca-Cola the drink is named after the drug and no one complains. Plus, words can have and acquire more than one meaning during their lifetime (see eg.: “fine” which means all of bad, regular and good).

…until found by another means.

And we have cats communities to deal with that one!

I feel like this is an issue of (either accidentally or incidentally) putting focus on something that doesn’t really need it. Picking instances should not matter; not in the sense of “it’s federated blah blah” but more in the sense of “it’s 2026, there’s password managers, noone uses their real identities for everything; having multiple accounts wherever it’s convenient should be normal”.

Where do all those meme posts about “Lemmy is bad name / bad branding” come from? I’ve seen it recurrently enough every time someone launches a FOSS thing that I would normally suspect it’s part of a LLM farm or a scam attempt from some sort of naming / patents agency, but I’ve seen these reactions from long enough (2015-ish).

Fifth consecutive month I have to remind people that XMPP exists.

And somehow magically all corporate product names land the one you want and all fediverse or FOSS inventions land the one you don’t? Come on it’s a quite common, low-hanging fruit complaint. Besides, the domain space for naming things is unpredictable.

Lemmy say that this whole “name dumb” thing is idiotic and completely subjective anyway. You should really go outside and take a look at the names of products people use.

I don’t have proof but also I don’t have doubt.

Given the latest news re: KDE gargling on AI, it’s pretty much a given that this is going to be vibecoded.

It’s 2026… Why do people insist on skipping the fact that XMPP exists?

Anyway. Just set up XMPP.