What’s RIF?

I didn’t even know that there was a Fediverse alternative to Pinterest. That’s enticing.

They can certainly self-host, it doesn’t mean you have to join those instances. Them making those instances would be good for adoption.

I’d like to see better interoperability, more bridges to other platforms, and more adoption, especially from people who claim to hate X or Elon Musk so much.

Theoretically, one could use Fediverse software to make standalone forums and/or social media platforms. However, not many have done this. Truth Social is the only one that comes to mind.

If you’re interested in running your own, I think you should be able to pick any Fediverse software you choose, install it on a server, and run it in a whitelist mode so that it doesn’t connect to other instances.

If your concern is random people being able to read and scrape your posts, I know that some Pleroma instances are also configured to not allow any pages or profiles to be public-facing, instead requiring a login if you want to visit anything other than the landing page (and even then, this restriction sometimes prevents any content in the feeds from loading when you are on the landing page).

At that point the administrator of an instance that doesn’t want to federated with the LLM instance, has to defederate from it, updating their instance and then still getting access requests from the LLM instance when it attempts to do the reply, post, community thing as described before.

That is a cost that, historically, the type of instance that would block an LLM instance just for having AI bots has no problem with expending fourfold.

Since I presume that few users would try querying an LLM instance, and therefore few instances would likely even touch the LLM instance (again, remember, the posts would be unlisted), this is pretty much an imagined problem, even if the hypothetical LLM instance were to exist in reality.

There isn’t an effect if nobody on a server interacts with or queries unlisted posts or their posters on a different instance.

Load on which servers?

If those posts are unlisted, what would be the big deal about that slop being on the Fediverse?

A bot instance, like Botsinspace, populated with LLMs, would be rather interesting to observe.

lol

People delete their posts because they aren’t getting karma? That’s kinda sad.

This is horrible. And I say this as someone who’s had horrible experiences with users over there, particularly when it comes to bullying and harassment. They didn’t deserve to get shut down like this. Hope they’re able to fix whatever the problem is and get back up and running again.

So with this bridge, how can people on the Fediverse end follow people on the Eurosky end?

So, how can I follow a Eurosky account from the Fediverse using this relay?

This is cool! Can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this yet.

Good. They should remove them. The power trippin’ sub would be a more appropriate place to talk about this.

BTW, I do agree that this is a problem, but exactly how many posts have been made about this now?

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I think this can only happen on larger instances that don’t have the infrastructure to scale for spikes of high demand. This isn’t a flaw of the protocol; you’d have to speak to the people who host your instance about the issues it has.