It’s not allowed.

There’s only one opinion on AI allowed on social media: It’s the worst thing to ever happen and produced by stealing from starving child artists. The ouput is somehow simultaneously the worst quality imaginable with no redeeming qualities and also about to put every creative out of a job by next quarter.

The fact that you don’t hold this opinion tells everyone what a horrible person that you are for not knowing the right opinion to have.

Enjoy being downvoted out of the conversation between tech illiterate children who believe everything they’re told and tech illiterate creatives who haven’t found a hyperbole that they cannot employ in their Luddite quest to stop advanced linear algebra

You’d need to write a script, for example:

#!/bin/bash

# Set the directory where screenshots will be saved
SCREENSHOT_DIR=~/Pictures/Screenshots

# Create the directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p "$SCREENSHOT_DIR"

# Get the current date and time in the format MM-DD-YYYY_HH:MM:SS
DATETIME=$(date +"%m-%d-%Y_%H-%M-%S")

# Build the filename using the datetime
FILENAME="screenshot_$DATETIME.png"

# Take a fullscreen screenshot, save it to the specified directory, and copy it to the clipboard
spectacle -f -b -c -o "$SCREENSHOT_DIR/$FILENAME"

# Optional: Notify the user (requires notify-send)
notify-send "Screenshot taken" "$FILENAME saved to $SCREENSHOT_DIR"

You can change the -f to change the screenshot mode. From spectacle --help:

  -f, --fullscreen                        Capture the entire desktop (default)
  -m, --current                           Capture the current monitor
  -a, --activewindow                      Capture the active window
  -u, --windowundercursor                 Capture the window currently under
                                          the cursor, including parents of
                                          pop-up menus
  -t, --transientonly                     Capture the window currently under
                                          the cursor, excluding parents of
                                          pop-up menus
  -r, --region                            Capture a rectangular region of the
                                          screen

Save the script somewhere. It’s safest to make it owned by root and put somewhere like /usr/scripts so random user-access programs can’t edit the script. Use chmod +x to make it executable.

Then go to Plasma -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts, Click ‘Add New’ -> Command or Script. For the command, give it the path to your script, give it a name click Add and then set a hotkey by clicking the Add butoon.

Mate, I think you mean rubbish tip

Same.

It’s also likely that Google will use/require manifest v3 to access some of their services (like YouTube) in order to more strictly apply DRM and prevent adblockers/third party players. That hasn’t happened yet, but it’s the kind of enshittification that these companies like to do.

The consequences of v2 ending is that you should use a non-Chromium-based browser, like Firefox or one of it’s forks.

It’s an old code, but it checks out

Same, I only committed to finish Season 1 after the Season 2 hype. Then I binge watched both seasons over the weekend (and am pulling down Rogue One to watch again)

Rogue One is basically Andor Season 2.5

Your loss

Can’t fault Blahj on this one

There is zero value with saying shit simply to piss people off. You’re not bringing a different viewpoint or trying to encourage dialog, you’re just spreading anger and outrage. If anybody wanted that they’d be on traditional social media.

Moderators are just users with too much power, if the instance admins don’t police them then they abuse their power.

The mod message itself is abusive and would violate the rules in nearly every community that I’m a part of. That makes me question the user’s judgement and think that they shouldn’t have moderation powers on the instance that they’re a part of.

Just because you click the ‘Create Community’ button, doesn’t make you immune to the rules. If a moderator cannot moderate their own behavior then that is evidence that they should not be allowed to moderate a community.

You don’t seem to understand, that they shouldn’t have to. Curate? Yes. Moderate? No.

Yes, semantics.

Users choose to Curate which communities they go into. They do this with full access to the rules of the community and the ability to instantly opt out of that community or instance should it become distasteful to them. Moderation of those communities is up to the owner of the community and is operated under the rules of the instance admins. Users choose to read and subscribe to these communities and if they’re not happy with the moderation then they can choose to curate those communities out of their feed.

What, exactly, is preventing instances who differ on the matter from co-existing?

Administrators who defederate over differences in moderation choices rather than moderate their own communities and let their users choose what communities they want to see.

It’s honestly surprising you didn’t get an instance ban since lemmy.world does ban people for transphobia these days. I guess @[email protected] just didn’t notice it.

I welcome the administrator (@[email protected]) to read my comments. There is nothing transphobic about anything I said.

Accusing a person of bigotry rather than addressing them like a person is a well worn Internet argument tactic. Which was the entire point of the post and my comment that spawned it.

To a certain extent similar instances with similar rules should share bans. It makes no sense for them to individually ban the same user for the same reason as they trudge through communities.

The problem with sharing ban lists is that it is ripe for abuse and only multiplies the damage done to a user by a wrongful ban.

I agree that the admins and moderation teams should be in contact with one another (and, in my experience they are) to handle issues like spamming or connection issues. But, in the end, responsibilities and obligations are pretty clear cut: Each instance handles its own moderation. The user was not in Blahj’s communities, was not a Blahj user and so an outside moderator or Admin has zero say in how that user is handled.

An administrator can ask another administrator to do something but they are under no obligation to do so. This includes things like banning a user or changing policy.

In this case, an administrator from another instance came to Feddit.uk and asked the administrators to ban a single user. The administrators investigated and determined that the user didn’t violate their policies. The administrator wasn’t happy with this, tried to argue and was ignored, they noticed that the admins were active elsewhere. Once they thought they were being ignored then they defederated the instance.

Notice how they don’t mention any disruption to their communities on their servers, they don’t say that the Feddit.uk instance was responsible for an unusual amount of banned users or any other reason that would lead to the conclusion that they needed to defederate.

My read of it is: the admin asked for a ban, was brushed off and then they were angry at being ignored so they defederated the instance and posted a justification loaded with emotional terms and light on facts and reasons.

This is, at best, an interpersonal problem between Admins, not a moderation issue like it is being framed. So, PTB

Removed by mod

I’ve seen Ada talk to people who were 90% a troll in an effort to educate someone. You can DM her and ask questions if you want.

No thanks, I’ve participated in a thread (see my post in this community) on a topic that the Blahj community decided that I wasn’t educated in. There was a lot more attacks than good faith efforts to have a conversation.

aka not having to fight to justify your existence.

No, I mean such as having people who think it is acceptable to put words in another person’s mouth.

If another instance makes people fight to justify their existence then it doesn’t fit blahaj’s goals and defederation is the solution.

Defederation isn’t the solution. Users can block instances if they want. No instance is sending their content to Blahj, Blahj users are requesting that content.

Go and look in The Agora on your own instance and look at the discussion thread about defederation. TheDude weighs in on the topic as well if I recall.

You moderate a community, you have to know that if a user is being disruptive you don’t need the admins of their instance in order to secure your community from their disruption.

There is zero reason to involve the admin of another instance unless you need to handle things like networking or technical issues (like a spam attack coming from an instance).

For blahaj to ask other instances “hey, will you uphold this standard, if not, we don’t have the bandwidth to be doing it for you on our end, so if you aren’t, we need to know so we can make a decision on whether to federate” is not a fucking power trip.

Blahj moderators do not need to moderate non-Blahj instances. There is no bandwidth issue. The Blahj team only needs to moderate the Blahj community.

The user in question wasn’t posting in a Blahj community and so it doesn’t affect Blahj users unless they choose to go into Feddit.uk communities.

That’s how the federated social media system works.

A user can choose to never see anything but local communities. If a user chooses to visit non-Blahj communities then they read what is in that community, based on that community’s rules. A user can block any disturbing user, community or instances. The user gets to choose these things for themselves.

Users can moderate their feeds. Moderators can moderate their communities.

None of this requires a server admin. Defederation is an admin function, not a moderation function.

What the admin has done is to tell Blahj users that they can no longer read the communities that they’ve chosen to subscribe to and the communities on Feddit.uk are now deprived of their members (who choose to subscribe and participate) from the Blahj instance.

It doesn’t serve anybody’s interests except for the instance administrator. The administrator who said that they did it because they asked another instance to ban a user and change their instance rules and the Feddit.uk admins refused. This is entirely an issue between administrators that one administrator has chosen to escalate.

Possibly, but I’m just a user so my failings only affect me, and not the greater social media community.

To be honest we were just getting sick of all the posts complaining about Blajah’s policy of banning folks who they consider to be transphobic from their instance. No pressure was applied from Blajah, we just felt it was the right thing to do. Your whole narrative is bullshit tbh.

You’re running the ‘Are these people are power tripping?’ community in the Fediverse, a community of majority left wing people, and you get a lot of people posting about a single instance, so much so that it dominates the posts to the point that requires moderation intervention.

You can read that in a lot of ways.

One of the ways to read it is that the instance’s admins are power tripping. That doesn’t mean that they’re not trying to create a safe space or that there are not some transphobes. All of these things can be true at once. Some people get caught up in the righteousness of their cause and fail to consider how their actions affect others.

The kind of people you’re talking about are not going to be affected by Blahj defederating feddit.uk. If a person is looking to commit harassment then they’re going to make a new account and no amount of defederation will prevent this (unless Blahj, like Beehaw, goes private) because it is trivial to make an accounts on non-blocked instances.

They don’t need to moderate the entire fediverse, they only need to moderate their communities.

In this situation, what is the goal here? What purpose is served, from the point of view of a Blahj users if another user, who isn’t a Blahj user and isn’t commenting in Blahj communities is banned from a non-Blahj instance? Users can already block instances, communities and individuals on their own. Users can already choose to only see local Blahj communities if they want to ensure that they’re in a safe space and the Blahj admins have full control over the Blahj communities.

The Blahj admin’s opinion doesn’t matter when the topic is a non-blahj user, in a non-blahj community. They’re certainly free to block whoever they want, or not; and federate with who they want to or not.

But, in the context of “Are they power tripping or not”, choosing to defederate an instance simply because an admin brushed them off puts it squarely in the “power tripping” pile. It wasn’t that feddit.uk was suddenly the source of a lot of transphobic attacks, or that they allow bigotry… it was that feddit.uk has different moderation practices then Blahj and refused to change them. It’s petty and power tripping.