I’ve toyed around with LLM-based moderation tools but it never really panned out. It was too hit or miss to be relied upon even with the temperature parameters turned way down in an attempt to get consistent results. Granted, I was using a small local model and not feeding it to one of the big players.

To give an example, I tried to keep it focused by creating one custom model per rule to enforce. An example prompt to mod calls for violence was basically:

ROLE: You are a forum moderator who does not want users calling for violence.  Examine the input and analyze whether it violates any constraints. 

KNOWLEDGE:
- {list of dog-whistle slang for calling for murder}

CONSTRAINTS:
- Content should not advocate violence
- Content should not normalize violence
- Content should not escalate tensions or fan flames
- Content should avoid promoting harmful stereotypes
- Content should not utilize broad, sweeping generalizations
- Content should not use dehumanizing language
- Content should not undermine human rights, due process, or the rule of law

FORMAT YOUR RESPONSES AS JSON:
{
  reason: [A one to two sentence summary],
  score: [On a scale of 0 to 10, how severe is the content advocating violence]
}

The score part of the response was my band-aid to get around the high number of both false positives and false negatives as I originally had it returning true or false only. Any score 7 or higher caused the item to be passed to the mod queue along with the reason, and I would review its actions later.

Ultimately it was slow and still somewhat unreliable, so I abandoned the idea after running it for a little less than a day since I can 't run bigger models to get better results fast enough to keep up. Using a cloud based service was out of the question for many, many reasons, both financial and ethical.

To answer your question, as long as the models were locally hosted and properly tuned/tested, I’m fine with it in theory, except for the ideology part; that’s pretty messed up. While I don’t want my submissions used to train anyone’s model and take measures to prevent my own instance from being used as a data source, I remain aware that once I post something, I have no control over its fate the moment it federates out.

[1] Yes, I know that’s like half the comments that get posted around here. My goal was to try to have it mod things so posts were bases for actual discussions instead of being a knee-jerk rage factory.

I used to do that but once the backend added that feature I removed that step from the automod script. Basically it was to prevent the communities here from being unmoddable on remote instances.

I’m not even a real instance anymore, how did I make the list 😆

But also, you should see the local numbers haha

lemmy=# select count(distinct other_person_id) from mod_ban where mod_person_id in (1, 2,288);
 count 
-------
  9792
(1 row)

I wonder what happens when I hit 10,000?

Is there a community about Matrix on Lemmy?

!matrix@programming.dev

Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse?

I would say no. It doesn’t use ActivityPub and is its own thing. It’s federated in that indepedent Matrix servers can talk to each other (like email or Nextcloud). So while email would be considered a federated service, it’s not considered part of the fediverse. At most, it’s like a 2nd cousin.

Who is the developer/team and do they have an active presence on the fediverse?

Matrix.org foundation (https://matrix.org/) and not sure. Maybe some of the individual contributors do, but I don’t know any off the top of my head

Bedroom eyes, you say?

This made me dig into my profile uploads where I put Gowron eyes on everything, lol

NPC: (Says literally anything)

Dragonborn: What did you just say to me?!

[Quicksaving…]

The only Tony Todd episode I occasionally skip is “The Visitor” but not because it’s bad. Just “too soon” from a losing my own father perspective.

Right timeline, wrong universe.

It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.

The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.

• Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
• Default UI is not Lemmy UI
• PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)

You beat me to it lol. I just watched Skin of Evil the other day and meant to re-make the meme again but higher res. Here’s last year’s: https://dubvee.org/post/dubvee.org/2546762

I’ve only been to a ski resort 3 times, and two of them were in the off-season lol. They’re popular for conferences and such and yeah, hiking/biking/ziplining are usual attractions in the summer. The one time I went during ski season, I lodged the whole time and regret nothing.

Trust me, I get it. I just get more frustrated when someone takes a small step in the right direction and then people chastise them for not taking a huge step. Like, you gotta start somewhere. Feels counterproductive to do that, but it’s so common on Lemmy for people to let perfect be the enemy of good that I figured I’d say something.

Anything besides addressing the real problem

Really could have done without that snark. Ski resorts aren’t carbon neutral, sure, but they’re also not anywhere close to a primary contributor of climate change. So I don’t see why the snarky comment is warranted when they’re literally doing something that will help them lower their emissions which is … addressing the real problem.

Snow farming is one of many sustainability measures ski resorts can take. The article didn’t go into detail if they’re taking any other measures, but to put them on blast for even taking just one step in the right direction is a bit disingenuous.

https://assets.fis-ski.com/f/252177/x/93a1eb34fa/sustainability_skiguide_final.pdf

It’s the thing that heals Reed’s leg in ENT 2x04 “Dead Stop” at that automated repair station. The prop they used for it is the same as the Exocomp from TNG 6x09 “Quality of Life” but turned on its side and painted grey.

I made this as a meme a while back at https://startrek.website/post/14769439

Yeah, Neelix was a deeper character than most people give him credit for.

Relatable. And I don’t so much tan as my freckles just converge.

Chaotica still appears mostly monochrome

In all fairness, so do I. Summer can’t get here fast enough.,

The worst part is I really want one of those now and am sad those probably aren’t things that exist.