I’ve been doing a lot of work around this area and the issue tends to pop up around context. There are instances a haiku model will catch something far more accurately than gpt-oss-safeguard. Obviously you pay in costs, realistically, you need a full system here for a proper implementation so some flows to tiny LLM some flows exclusively ML, some flows to a higher intelligence.

People on the fediverse are generally pretty anti ai but it’s basically impossible to scale a platform without AI moderation. I would fully welcome any instance trying an implementation of [Osprey](https://discord.com/blog/osprey-open-sourcing-our-rule-engine with LLMs.

This actually ended up not being an external DDOS. They shipped some code that ended up hammering their servers.

Most of this work is done via emulators if you have a hardware attestation process built in, it will stop most of it. Obviously you still have a problem with phone farms but those are much more expensive than emulators and there’s a physical capacity to them.

I agree the Fediverse is not in a good spot for something like this.

I actually think this is where the identity system of atproto will be more impactful here as it allows a better verification system. I’ve been thinking lately you should be able to use hardware attestation + biometric attestation on apps to filter these emulated users out.

The Hot ordering is itself an algorithm.

Do you own a bank account? A credit card? A car?

Your requests aren’t interoperable with the daily life in 2025. Your incredibly niche requirements instead ensures that the general public cannot have access to a usable reasonably private OS outside the hands of corporations.

If you want these requirements you can rip the code out yourself and load it as a custom ROM, stop being anti progress for things as frivolous and solvable as this.

Tap to pay was relatively common even 10 years ago in US cities. I’ve been tap to pay almost exclusively for 5 years.

Mind you the US is BEHIND on tap to pay technology compared to other countries.

Tap to pay with the phone is also much smoother because it emits the NFC signal vs the card which is just inlayed in the card via the chip.

Much smoother process.

The requirements for Linux to have your “needs” would make me not want it,

This is a ridiculous thing to say about something as frivolous and nonmandatory as NFC tap to pay & being able to use a Maps app in your cars dash.

Absolutely must haves for me personally, I use each probably daily. I don’t carry any cards with me and exclusively use tap to pay.

Thank you, swipe to text got me there lol

I would’ve wouldn’t frame this as the distro is unusable and abandoned.

I’ve been on PopOS for 3 years and haven’t had a single issue even with gaming.

I used to think about this via mesh networks as simply routers, but now with nostr, IPFS, atProto and that new BT messaging stuff Jack Dorsey is on. Technically you could utilize your phone as an access point to the mesh network as you move around the city and load all the comms in the background. The latency would be high, but it could work. Also with 5g tech nowadays long range mesh networks are much more feasible albeit probably expensive for a hobbyist.

There are other Appviews on the atProto that have chosen not to implement checks that have full access to Bluesky posting/data.

I’ve noticed over the years it ebbs and flows with the broader “societal mood”. People are much more on edge nowadays for rightful reasons, but it creates a pretty toxic environment on the internet.

Im thinking of the fork the devs of the programming.dev instance were trying to build, it was PHP. Can’t remember the name, then this and Pixelfed. I don’t know if favoritism is the right word but I do feel like 3 projects is a lot for the current ecosystem lol.

Certainly an interesting decision.

What’s up with ActivityPub projects being beholden to PHP. Not even pitting languages against each other, just interesting that most new projects nowadays will choose something like Typescript + React but fediverse tends to favor PHP.

A huge aspect of this is ranchers not cycling their land and allowing it to regrow native grasses properly, which does end up running into the land use problem again. But right now we’re very unoptimized with land regrowth and there’s a huge difference that can be made with just properly handling the land and to stop ranching in literal deserts.

Unfortunately until they implement a For you algorithm across all instances and abandoned their archaic hashtag following system I will not be re-attempting

I tried moving to Mastadon first a few years ago and it was a pretty shit experience, Bluesky however has stuck in my app rotation pretty well.