I think better compatibility with the Mastodon side would go a long way towards fixing the userbase / content problem.

https://fedidb.com/

There are 672k monthly active users on Mastodon who can’t easily interact with threadiverse. Although this is mostly a change that they need to implement

Do you know if there are limits to movement, expression etc that are tells for the realistic video?

With how many different models there are, I don’t think there is any standard to look for

I find that I can’t catch AI more easily if I’ve seen what it can output.

For example, the older videos used to use generative AI on the images and videos themselves, which made it easier to spot those.

Some newer videos are made with the “agentic” tools that have access to various scripts and animation libraries, which come out looking very polished and visually identical to human produced ones. For those, I find that the AI will put unnecessary “work”, into the irrelevant parts of the visualizations. Some of the libraries and fonts are more popular than others, so you might notice a pattern that way too.

For an example to the second category, check out the recent videos from this channel, which has AI generated “music videos”: https://m.youtube.com/@degenerativepixels

That’s great to hear! Sorry if the post caused any potential stress, I’ve edited the end of the post and I’m open to editing it further to not give anyone the wrong impression.

Looking forward to seeing this in action :)

The spammer was this user, it looked like one of those impersonation accounts that pop up on Mastodon instances from time to time. You might have already banned the user by the time we got to it: @elonspacex49.bsky.social@coves.social

Again, open to hearing your thoughts on this. It sounds like you think there’s something we should be doing differently

can we talk about the amount of trolls on the lemmy.ca and piefed.ca instances?

We’ve banned plenty of troll-like accounts and are actively working on updated guidelines. Now is a good time to point out issues

https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/

Open to hearing your thoughts, but I think what you might be seeing is a combination of

• people who don’t like the politics on Reddit are more likely to be here
• Canadians who are angry at the current american administration (and likely historic actions as well), are more likely to oppose the US and policies/entities associated with the US
• our instances make up a larger part of the threadiverse

I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is […]

That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes […]

IMO both of the UIs are going to feel weird and limited to someone coming from Reddit / Instagram etc. I find that custom front ends like Photon are a lot better for newcomers.

I know Lemmy is working on a completely new frontend.

Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.

I have a constant flow of new content, and see something new every time I open it (which is often, after years of having that muscle memory from reddit).

I’m subscribed to a lot of communities + using scaled sort

I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.

This one was weird to me. I remember seeing complaints that reddit has been banning and shutting down its NSFW side, while it’s accessible here.

I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.

I want Lemmy to support HCaptcha

Past that, most people are ok with applications once you explain why they’re necessary.

Also a lot of social media platforms started out as invite only as marketing strategy lol

So you came into this thread about a hateful attack by a gunman, killing 1 person and injuring a child, and decided to shit on the linked article because the news agency is from a muslim-majority country?

If you still can’t see the problem with that, try to imagine if someone left a comment like yours on an article where you identify with the victims. How would you expect community moderators to respond to such a comment?

you won’t hear about many of the frequent seculophobic attacks in Paris made by Muslims

https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/27/video-shows-man-subdued-after-stabbing-three-women-in-paris

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/3/german-tourist-killed-in-stabbing-near-eiffel-tower-in-paris

While not Paris specifically:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/1/france-makes-new-arrests-over-nice-church-attack

YouTube started with a lot of angel funding, which is why it eventually monetized in the way that it has

YouTube began as an angel-funded enterprise working from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million,[20] and Roelof Botha (a partner of the firm and former CFO of PayPal) joined the YouTube board of directors. In April 2006, Sequoia and Artis Capital Management invested an additional $8 million in the company, which had experienced significant growth in its first few months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

Normally updates like this are patched quietly, and sometimes without disclosing what exactly the exploit is

This one was leaked early and tutorials supposedly popped up on Twitter, all before the patches were released to relevant software

On top of that, it was a pretty bad exploit (RCE)

So websites were taken offline because either

• they needed to wait for someone with experience to confirm it was patched and safe
• they needed to wait for an update to be sent their way

I agree this is terrible, and I encourage people to talk to their older / non technical friends and family

At the same time, that seems like a lot of work on the part of the scammers when the average person wouldn’t know what their local sheriff sounds like. Osceola doesn’t seem like a small town.

The grandparents scam (cloning the voice of a grandchild) is a lot more concerning IMO

Looks great! Is the best way to submit bugs by DM or email?

I noticed the following issues when trying to sign in and add an instance with my accounts on Lemmy and Piefed instances (lemmy.ca/u/otter and piefed.ca/u/otter specifically):

Logging in

Signing in with the profile-description (bio) code works on both Lemmy and PieFed, but logging in with a DM does not work for either.

On Lemmy, I get the error message

We could not deliver a message to that account. Check the handle, or use another way to sign in.

Meanwhile on Piefed, FediDB says that it sent the code, but it fails silently since I never receive a message on the account. I looked into adding fedidb.com as a trusted instance from the admin side, but I don’t think that’s the issue since there are no entries for fedidb.com there at all.

I know it should be possible to receive DMs from non-threadiverse instances since Canvas used that for auth. If it helps, here is the source code for that project:

• https://git.sc07.company/sc07/canvas
• https://git.sc07.company/sc07/fediverse-auth

I think they do it by sending the DM as both a Mastodon style note and as a Lemmy style chat message (link to code)

// around line 144
   const outbox = [
      await message.build(fedify.Note),
      await message.build(fedify.ChatMessage),
    ].map((obj) => apub.prepareObject(obj, ts));

Admin verification

This one fails for both.

On Lemmy I suspect it is looking at the wrong endpoint since I get this:

Could not reach the server to confirm your admin status.

Meanwhile on Piefed, I see the following message despite using an admin account that shows up in /api/alpha/site

Your account is not an admin or the contact account of this server.

I haven’t tried the other methods yet :)

Also sound quality and fit, that’s what I’m curious about

Most earbuds are not repairable, and they don’t have replaceable batteries. Eventually the battery capacity drops to the point where you need to charge them too often. These use replaceable and generic batteries from what I heard, and they’re fairly repairable.

• this fits within their niche of ethical electronics supply chains and manufacturing

I’m considering a pair of these for when my current earbuds die, depending on the fit and quality.

I think most Lemmy apps are either compatible with both Piefed and Lemmy, or just Lemmy. So putting out information in a Lemmy format will let more clients connect to it?

That’s very cool, and I appreciate the thought that you’ve put into this, including the naming.

How does the embedding side change as it scales up? (Storage costs and performance). Brainstorming based on your description, I assume the embedding process is the most resource intensive, and lookups are basically free? If so, would the limit be how fast it can process all new posts?

I wonder if it would be helpful to run a threadiverse search service like this, which other instances can plug in to. Theres no strong reason for everyone to run their own, since they can just filter out any results that a particular instance has blocked or banned. In our case, we wouldn’t want to replicate that work across the few instances that we run.

That’s fair, and it was a poor example on my part.

If one treatment is much better, then yes that one would be preferred. Generally when there are two treatments being weighed, both will have consequences (else one would obviously be better).

My point was that knowing things about a person, outside of their physical biology, can get better outcomes. It should never be REQUIRED for the patient to share it, but we should educate medical staff about their community so that they can use that information when it is helpful.

Some other examples, that aren’t specific to gender

• knowing what pronouns to use would make the patient trust the provider more and feel more comfortable
• if you know the patients literacy level or knowledge of medical terminology, you can adjust your explanations
• if the patient belongs to a group that might have an aversion to a particular treatment, you know to either spend more time explaining it or to let them know another option is available
• if you know the patient is poor, then you might take that into account when recommending treatments. Even in publicly funded health systems, the lifestyle recommendations might not apply to every person

At the same time, the person shouldn’t be making assumptions based on someone falling into a particular group, and they should confirm whatever it is they are checking for.

IMO, knowing about gender is less important in places where it doesn’t carry as much cultural weight. As another example, if someone identifies as a woman in a culture where they don’t want to be alone with a male figure, knowing their identity might remind the staff to bring someone else who identifies as a woman into the exam room.

Gender, and other factors that aren’t as “medically relevant”, may help the staff pick between two treatment options. The patient’s comfort and happiness can affect their overall wellbeing.

Say someone grows up in a culture where their gender (or some cultural group the person can belong to) usually has long hair. A particular treatment may have two options:

• shave the head
• something that doesn’t involve shaving the head

Knowing what gender (or other group) the person belongs to might inform their decision.

Note, this is about why medical staff might want to know about gender identity and not the original question of how many legal genders we should have.

It’s intentional disinformarion. This is a war, and wars are rife with propaganda

The problem is that this could also end up furthering disinformation.

If a user without tech knowledge interprets this news as “the fake right wing bots were shut down”, but still sees accounts on their social media posting during that time, they might start to believe that those accounts are real people in their community.

I hope there was a dip in social media bots, but I don’t want to be saying that unless I see more evidence for it. The existing evidence mentioned in the article has been followed up with clarifications / retractions by the people that shared it

• Cloudflare clarified what their graph represents
• The Czech member of Parliament, who shared a popular post, “has since said he ‘did not present it as a clear fact’”
• “Zelensky’s office told BBC Verify the president was “talking about the atmosphere on social media” rather than a fall in bot activity. It added it had seen “reports of fewer provocative and hateful comments” from many social media users.”

To be clear, I appreciate your explanation and I agree that it’s plausible. It is also possible that both things are true (they use data centers, but the fake accounts people were monitoring are running out of different data centers).

Since a lot of people here (myself included) also misinterpreted the recent news, here are some excerpts for those who haven’t read the article.

If I had to guess, I’d say that you don’t need a data center to run a social media bot that spits out the same generic inflammatory lines all day.

Claims that Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres reduced Kremlin-linked bot networks have spread widely online, but experts have told BBC Verify there is no evidence the attacks have significantly reduced them.

Viral social media posts have claimed there has been a significant drop in influence operations in recent days, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggesting on Monday there was “less hate, less division and fewer provocations” online because of “fewer bots”.

But claims these attacks have affected Russian disinformation operations, including accounts posting supportive messages about groups including the Make American Great Again (MAGA) movement in the US and the far-right AfD party in Germany, appear to have come from a misinterpretation of data produced by tech firm Cloudflare.

Some social media users have been sharing charts of Cloudflare data which show bot activity using Yandex’s network has declined.

While bots are commonly associated with fake social media accounts that may post false, divisive and inflammatory content, they are also used to automate tasks like scanning web pages so they appear on search engines.

Cloudflare clarified its data includes all automated internet requests to websites hosted on its network, including bots crawling websites for information.

The company also said the drop off was “not necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms”.

Researchers from dTeam, a US-based group that tracks Moscow-linked influence operations, told BBC Verify there has not been “any traffic change from known Russian accounts and bot clusters on any platform”.

They added that if the offices of known groups involved in these operations “were in flames then we would see a change”.

Bots linked to pro-Kremlin influence operations like Storm-1516 and Matryoshka - both of which BBC Verify has previously reported on - were still active on social media on Tuesday, evidence shared with BBC Verify by dTeam shows.