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  • Hm, I would try just changing it back first. Use geekroom.tech. Any community or anything that federated or went into the database, with one of the other hostnames, is probably cursed now, and best just deleted and never looked back on. But, if you try to reinstall, you won’t be able to keep geekroom.tech as the domain at all, you’ll have to pick a new one (or just use a subdomain like lemmy.geekroom.tech).

    Once stuff is federated out from one install under some given domain name, it’s pretty much immutable from that point forward. It probably shouldn’t be that way, but that is the current state of things with ActivityPub being the way that it is unfortunately.



  • Hm, I saw no posts on your instance for !rDataHoarder@geekroom.tech, so I tried to make one on my instance to see if it would show up, and now your server’s giving me an internal error viewing that community. Do you know what’s up with that?

    I think the time period during which whatever-it-was was making things not work, may have left your federation of communities in a borked state. One thing you can try: Unsubscribe from some particular remote community from all users on your instance (so your instance will request to stop getting updates). Then, resubscribe, and see if you start getting updates again. The initial request to get updates might have gotten swallowed by the brokenness.

    This might be a good question for the devs, also. Both because they can help more and because they should know about it as an issue (whether or not it was caused by some Cloudflare thing and whether or not it was your “fault” in setting it up, both of those questions I have no idea.)








  • Inb4 “Substack Nazis boo Nazis Nazis Nazis.” That is incorrect. There were only like 3 neo-Nazis, with about 10 followers apiece, but anyway they kicked them all out some time back now, because the entire internet was yelling at them.

    I think it’s highly likely that someone who is screaming at you about how Substack is full of Nazis and officially “bad” probably is either just looking for an opportunity to yell and virtue-signal about how their purity test is more pointlessly pure than yours is, and not up to date on anything about the reality they’re talking about, or else they’re motivated by not wanting you and I to read Tim Snyder and Robert Reich. Either way the Nazis are mostly just an excuse.

    I’m not planning to post any Nazi blogs. Everyone can relax.






  • I’m using an LLM architecture that’s better suited to summarisation meaning it won’t invent false facts like traditional gpts do.

    What architecture is that? If you have an LLM that doesn’t hallucinate, there will surely have been papers written about the breakthrough.

    The ai has no more misinformation than a human journalist.

    And that dear reader was when the work of foolishness became something much more sinister.

    Humans, and trust in humans, are important. The internet divorced the human face and the accumulation of trust from the news, which has allowed engineered alternative facts to enter the mainstream consciousness, which might be the single biggest harmful development in a modern age which has no shortage of them. I am not trying to tell you that your summarizer project is automatically responsible for that. But be cautious about what future you’re constructing.


  • If u don’t like this please just block the community no need to complain or downvote.

    Best of luck with that!

    I’m actually not trying to poop on some cool new thing you’re setting up, but I think it is pretty clear at this point that building a system that uses an LLM to produce factual information for people, is a recipe for your system getting well-deserved criticism.

    Also, pay your journalists. Anything that takes them out of the equation will at some point lead to X and Youtube being the only sources of news, sending everybody anything that somebody feels like paying to produce and distribute for “free.”




  • Ah, I got it. Yeah, it makes sense, WP.com is moderately likely to keep working fine probably, it’s just that it would make me nervous at this stage. I just don’t think he can do anything to really “punish” Bluehost if they’re using his software in some way that displeases him. WPEngine’s mistake was getting tangled up into a business relationship where they were depending on listings and APIs and things. Although, it probably seemed like a good idea until their business counterpart went off the deep end.