Afaik the bot auto-creation is disabled now, but it used to mirror some Reddit subreddits by automatically creating bot accounts for every Reddit user posting in them, and using that to post the same content in a Lemmy community. That's how the instance got over a million users, pretty much all of them are bots that do whatever the Reddit user with the same name is doing in one of the mirrored subreddits.
What you are describing is another part of the plan: Allowing the original Reddit users to take over their mirror accounts on Lemmy. Apparently it just creates accounts for them if no bot exists yet.
The main story of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty bland and mediocre.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a phenomenal game! The companion arcs, acting and overall presentation are still next level, some sidestories are very good, and it’s great how faithfully they adapted the D&D rules. But the main story ...
What you're talking about is being allowed to use something or being tolerated, that's different from having a right. A temporary right is a real right for a specified time frame, but here it would just be "until I decide you don't".
I removed the comment (maybe still visible on some instances?) because what I was criticizing in it wasn't necessarily said in the one it was answering, but I do still think the comparison is adequate!
There is no reason for digital content to ever go bad, other than not having any compatible physical devices anymore. Idk what you base your "reasonable expectation" on, but properly stored digital content does not degrade, so it could last basically forever. I guess you just extrapolate from what you're used to from these platforms, and I'm sorry to tell you that they've been ripping you off the whole time. There is no physical reason why they couldn't keep the digital content available, at least until they go out of business, and without DRM even well beyond that. Hosting static data is incredibly cheap, the limitations are all about contracts and profit maximization.
If anything, the house in the metaphor is actually not long-lived enough.
They increased it to 25mb afaik, that should be more than enough for the vast majority of use cases. But I don't want to argue about the optimal limit, if you don't want to use it because it's not enough for you then that's your decision. I'm not overly fond of Discord myself, or any centralized messenger for that matter, but I do think the way they handle files is all right.
We need to stop calling it digital "ownership"! You don't get to own anything as a customer on these platforms, because rights that can be taken away on a whim are no rights at all.
The mirroring content is targeted at specific communities.
It's affecting the All feed of federated instances as well, and it affects everyone who might be interested in those topics.
The posts are useful by themselves.
If you can't empathize with this then please just accept that it's not just about the content inside the posts. The fact that a human decided to post it somewhere makes a difference, even without any further interactions. You could probably think of it as subtext or metadata, that changes how a post is perceived.
What I said is that if LW continues with the defederation even if it becomes populated with real people, then it will be on LW for keeping isolated.
You decided to create an instance filled with bots and then motivated new users to convert some into real accounts. You created the situation where other instances have to also block those users if they want to get rid of all the bots. This is purely on you! You can't set a house on fire and then blame others for the water everywhere.
"Sacrificing alien.top" means stopping with the bots and just implement the migration on another instance.
Yea, so everyone who converted their account until then would be left on an instance filled with bots, and blocked for that by at least LW. Great job!
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Afaik the bot auto-creation is disabled now, but it used to mirror some Reddit subreddits by automatically creating bot accounts for every Reddit user posting in them, and using that to post the same content in a Lemmy community. That's how the instance got over a million users, pretty much all of them are bots that do whatever the Reddit user with the same name is doing in one of the mirrored subreddits.
What you are describing is another part of the plan: Allowing the original Reddit users to take over their mirror accounts on Lemmy. Apparently it just creates accounts for them if no bot exists yet.