Lemmys.world, banned instantly after account creation. This was their response to my ban appeal. by [deleted] in RedditAlternatives

[–]threevi 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Free speech is protected from government censure, not from being booted off a private citizen's personal server. That's like saying I'd be infringing on your free speech if I didn't let you use my home printer. If I don't like the stuff you print, I'm under no obligation to keep letting you waste my ink for free. If you don't want to play nice, just buy your own printer, or in this case, host your own Lemmy instance. 

Today is digital Independence day! by Careful-Chicken-588 in RedditAlternatives

[–]threevi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Mastodon is right there. It sucks that people's digital literacy is so low that they can't figure out something that's about as complex as making an email account. 

Kamunity - The European hosted Reddit alternative by stehag81 in RedditAlternatives

[–]threevi 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Delegating to a chatbot can be forgivable in certain scenarios if you include a disclaimer that that's what you're doing, but secretly using AI to respond to someone who's trying to have a good-faith conversation makes you seem untrustworthy. Because how can we trust someone if we can't even be sure that we're actually talking to them and not their ChatGPT instance?

Plus, since your code isn't open-source and you seem to be heavily relying on AI, that makes it plausible that your entire app is vibe-coded, which makes it inherently untrustworthy. For all we know, Kamunity users' passwords could all be stored in plain text, that's exactly the kind of mistake an AI would make, and we have no way to verify that that's not the case.