🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

awww, well I hope things worked out for you okay in the end. :)

Nakes sense, though - you want the pretend person to be somewhere reasonable but not TOO close. lol

Well, this caused me to learn something today. One of my favorite musicals is Avenue Q, which has an entire song about a girlfriend who supposedly lives in Canada. And I keep seeing this reference - but I keep thinking there is NO WAY that THIS many people know about Avenue Q (which is a pity).

And sure enough, TIL that this trope dates back to at least the 70s and is references in multiple TV shows and movies and such.

So Avenue Q was using an existing thing. Ah, well.

At least I know not to make Avenue Q references since there’s little chance they’ll be gotten. lol

“Broke containment” to me means two things:

1. Doing things against the safeguards
2. Doing things externally - like sending that email

The former is a big nothing. They just need to obviously build stronger safeguards. That’s what they’ll do and eventually release it, or other models or whatever.

The latter is also a big nothing because people who know nothing about tech will say “OH SHIT IT ESCAPED” but it requires running on large hardware, it can’t “get into the internet” like those people might think, and if it’s doing things you don’t want on the internet, you just remove its access to the internet.

So in both cases, the “containment” issue is really not a big deal.

I agree with those who basically say this is an attempted ad trying to sell it as super-capable-oh-shit-amazing.

[x] Doubt

I’m on Windows and got a browser running under WSL and so far, that seems to have worked, along with me using the account extremely minimally. lol

Ah, gotcha, I hadn’t caught that between the lines. :)

Yeah, I think it’ll be pretty trivial to get around. Anyone wanting to post automatically just has to sign up manually, do whatever checking, then post using some sort of scraper i.e. directly to the site rather than via the API. Which probably a lot of bots are doing now rather than bothing to set up the API… heh

I guess it’s good that they’re trying to do a positive thing (ignoring all the shit they’re doing outside of it), but it’s probably not going to help much.

Yes, but what does that have to do with my comment? (edit: they explained the context below)

The article basically says that posting using the API will get posts labeled as “[App]”. That’s what it boils down to. They even talk about human accounts using AI to write posts.

That’s about the level of thing that caused me a coupld of my bans, so sounds about right.

Why do I need to go talk in places I’m not interested in talking, with people who I don’t care for,

Because Lemmy is slower!

hehe, kidding

the top 90% of comments arent the same reddit jokes

I am doing my part to change that, mind. (hopefully not really) :)

I guess I wasn’t bad enough to be on their radar.

You were a frickin’ saint, because the things I did were either stupid (to call infractions) or really minor. lol.

Or you were lucky or I was unlucky. heh.

time limit on new accounts,

That’s what finally has let me let reddit go - so many subreddits have a thing now where you have to have karma in threads that haven’t hit /r/all yet before you can comment, and that takes time and effort when I just browse /r/all. heh.

Similar here except I went from a warning to a full ban the last two accounts. And for a little while there, when they banned one account, I got a half dozen bans on multis I’d created years ago for some stupid joke and hadn’t used since I created them. heh.

They just really have decided they don’t want the older users around, I guess.

Before I gave up on reddit completely, I was getting lots of 429 errors. Although asking around, some were, some weren’t. Still not sure they weren’t targeting me - apparently I hit their radar and they ban my accounts whenever they figure out it’s me (I just want to mod in my local subreddit, I’ve slowly disengaged from everything else). heh

Last I checked, old.reddit had about 2% of the users. So yeah, it’ll be shut down whenever they get around to it, I’d imagine. Whenever they add something that breaks it, it’ll be gone.

I agree, but it’s still better than the “pranks” that hugely wink at you and think they’re clever, but they’re obviously some marketing team trying to come up with ideas that aren’t offensive… yeah, I said it, this dreck is better than that dreck. heh.

It’s what you told them to do… you… advised them… to do that. Because you clearly didn’t like their comment.

It really is that simple, unless you’re being willfully ignorant.

Besides, the CLASSIC reply is to try and throw it back in MY face like I threw it in yours.

Maybe you can take your own advice, and not spent time replying to comments you don’t like? I hear it’s really that simple.

And if not, WHY NOT

:)

It’s always interesting to see people commenting who don’t understand how reddit works. Which is fair - you can have an opinion. But knowing how it works makes a difference in how seriously I can take your opinion.

Mods on reddit cannot do a sitewide ban. They can ban you from one or more subreddits they moderate.

Admins do sitewide bans, which is what’s happened here, since you can see the profile has been banned.

And these days, with reddit’s shitty AI moderation, it probably means a ban done by AI.

Because this is not a normal person, someone will probably take a look at it and overturn it.

If you’re a regular joe, however, them taking a look at it even if you appeal is pretty damned rare. And as some have mentioned - things that trigger AI as a “threat of violence” that a normal human would easily see are not - doesn’t matter, AI bans. You get a warning, 24-hour, 3-day, 10-day, 30-day, then permanent. Unless there’s something that accellerates that.

As much as many people manage to survive without saying things AI picks up on, it’s damn easy to get unjustly banned, and it’s only gotten worse and worse over time.

Anyone in this thread talking about bans from mods is technically offtopic, except that reddit itself is also the topic, so that’s fine, but you should understand that a mod banning you is not similar to what happened here. :P

*28 day mute :)