lvxferre , 16 days ago

For writers, that "no AI" is not just the equivalent of "100% organic"; it's also the equivalent as saying "we don't let the village idiot to write our texts when he's drunk".

Because, even as we shed off all paranoia surrounding A"I", those text generators state things that are wrong, without a single shadow of doubt.

lvxferre , 16 days ago

[Off-topic] As I was reading the comments from a related thread, I noticed that the comments there can be tagged by the community. (See Alfman's comment, being tagged as "verbose"). That would be an amazing feature here in the Fediverse forums/link-sharers.

[On-topic] I wonder if Mozilla was buying time to retract its staff from Russia? Even if not, I respect their ability to revert a decision in a transparent way, and apologise to the community without sounding like a corporate "apology". It shows that they actually care about the principles that they're babbling about, even if they violated them with the temporary removal.

lvxferre , 21 days ago

The way that I see it, the issue with lemmy ml's administration and moderation is not quite political in origin. It's about transparency; and I think that this wall of text that I wrote about how lemmy dot ml handled ani.social shows it well, as the dispute in question was not political in nature. (I can abridge it at request.)

With that out of the way, most of your suggestions boil down to "use lemmy.world instead". I don't have anything against LW's administration, but I think that it's foolish to concentrate people and activity there even further, it defeats the point of a federation. That instance is already 40% of the MAUs, and hosts the largest comms using Lemmy.

lvxferre , 24 days ago

People in the future will be like:

"Pokémon? There's radio silence after the 3DS games. I think that Nintendo closed down by then."

"Ah, Ultrakill? Here. [points to some file in the repo] Still playable. Small dev from a brilliant indie scene."

I'm being kind of cheeky; it's reasonably possible that people in the future know that Nintendo games actually existed past the 3DS, they simply weren't preserved because their corporation got too greedy. In the meantime, game devs like Hakita are keeping their legacy alive.

lvxferre , 23 days ago

...frankly, most stuff past gen V.

lvxferre , 23 days ago

Gen7 for me was... meh. I remember being extremely annoyed at the RotomDex telling me what to do, as if it didn't allow me to explore properly. Perhaps because my nostalgia is geared towards the older games (I still play Emerald, to give you an idea.)

lvxferre , 23 days ago

I also think that the power creep started out with Gen4, as it had lots of legendaries and evos for older mons. (There's a literal god there dammit.) However I feel like power creep is a symptom of a deeper issue in the series: it's basically mass production, and for mass production you got a few cosmetic changes from gen to gen but almost no meaningful change in core gameplay. And eventually people like you, @sleepybisexual and me got tired of that "base" product.

lvxferre , 23 days ago

In your case I wouldn't recommend trumpets and water Emerald then, as it's exploration-heavy - there's huge routes, and often what you want is in a specific place. You'll probably have a great time with Gen 4 instead, specially Platinum.

lvxferre , 23 days ago

They're even more exploration-heavy than Emerald. Roughly, the earlier the game, the bigger the focus on exploration, as hardware limitations didn't allow much storytelling.

Also, I recommend playing their remakes instead of the original games; the originals are extremely buggy and have huge balance issues. (For example, there's a shore in Red/Blue that you can use to catch Safari Zone mons. And Psychic mons are crazy overpowered - the only Ghosts in the region are partially Poison, there's a lot of other Poison types, and since Gen1 was before the special split they got huge offensive and defensive capabilities.)

lvxferre , 23 days ago

Yup!

lvxferre , 22 days ago

I don't think that mass production is doing it alone, but that it's a factor. It's what prevents GameFreak from changing the core gameplay of the game; and without meaningful changes to core gameplay, they need to attract players through other ways.

And one of those ways is making the mons of a newer gen stronger than the ones of the gen before. (Another is introducing "gimmick mechanics" that get forgotten in the next gen.)

lvxferre , 26 days ago

The problem is considerably smaller if you consider that the software is used by a lot more people than English speakers (both L1 and L2+). For these, "gimp" is not some sex stuff, but rather that critter chewing on a brush. And even for L2+, the word "gimp" is often missing from our vocabs.

As others said in this thread, the actual problem holding GIMP back is called user interface. It has improved, but it's still awful.

lvxferre , 27 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Additionally: look for johncena141's releases. They're obnoxiously packed (you got to have DwarFS, annoying to install in Mint*), but he'll typically provide native versions of the game if possible, and when it needs an emu layer he also bundles it with the WINE version that it works the best with.

*to be honest I use his releases mostly to extract the contents.

lvxferre , 27 days ago

Yup. Like, I get what he's trying to do, if people don't need to extract the contents of the release they're more likely to keep sharing it. It would be reasonable if DwarFS was installed by default in most distros, Mint for example doesn't even have it in the repos*. Still, he shares a huge collection of games, so it's still worth to check if he has something you want.

*might be relevant for the OP. In Mint here's what I did: I downloaded DwarFS binaries and put them in some random dir (I'll call it /randomdir). Then I edited my .bashrc file and included the following lines:

undorf () {
	mkdir "$1".extracted
	/randomdir/bin/dwarfsextract -i "$1" -o "$1".extracted
	}

Then when I download his releases, I navigate to the dir where the dwarfs is, plop a terminal, and write undorf [filename]. Boom, extracted without too much fuss.

lvxferre , 27 days ago

This is what machine learning is useful for. Not to try to convince you that oranges are active and potatoes are passive, or to give you a thumbs up with 7~8 fingers. But to detect patterns and allow automation of repetitive tasks.

lvxferre , 27 days ago

I agree with the move; it reduces the unnecessary waste of time, space, and material. While some things should have physical copies, not everything needs to.

Regarding the "AI" part: the author is simply highlighting that BRD is sticking to really old technology, in a world going further steps beyond. Don't think too hard on that.

lvxferre , 27 days ago

Frankly I also like the original better. It seems more reasonable, less like "it's impossible" and more like "it's really hard".

lvxferre , 26 days ago

I've been thinking on the original of this sentence (Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, book IX) for a bit. I'll copy the relevant excerpt:

That moral virtue is a mean, then, and in what sense it is so, and that it is a mean between two vices, the one involving excess, the other deficiency, and that it is such because its character is to aim at what is intermediate in passions and in actions, has been sufficiently stated. Hence also it is no easy task to be good. For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle, e.g. to find the middle of a circle is not for every one but for him who knows; so, too, any one can get angry- that is easy- or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy; wherefore goodness is both rare and laudable and noble.

I might not agree with his "middle ground" reasoning (I think that it's simplistic) but I agree with his conclusion - to express anger can be good as long as you do it without misdirecting it, overdoing it, doing it when it doesn't matter, doing it for spurious reasons, or doing it non-constructively.

lvxferre , 29 days ago

That's it! When I grow up I won't become an astronaut or firefighter. I'm going to become a copyright troll!

I recommend people to read the comments in that thread, too. A lot of them are rather insightful; they get it - the problem is not just Google being a cheapstake, but also the copyright laws themselves.

This one is IMO specially insightful:

... and that is the strategy, right? It is cheaper for them [YouTube] to have a botched process that most people will not even try to fight, then to become more sophisticated (i.e., involve more actual humans) in order to preempt complaints. Alphabet / Google / YouTube are so big they can literally just ignore their users and still get away with it.

lvxferre , 23 days ago

The thing is that they're complying with the court case by letter, but not by spirit. Sure, there is a system to report and remove copyright infringement; but the system is 100% automated, full of fails that would require manual review, and Google can't be arsed to spend the money necessary to fix it.

lvxferre , 29 days ago

Não acho que haja algo "codificado", que serve para todas as comus de pirataria. Mesmo assim vejo determinados "padrões" de comportamento, que os mais experientes seguem, e reclamam quando os outros não seguem. Acho que podem ser resumidos no seguinte:

1. Não seja sanguessuga.
2. Proteja sua privacidade e a dos outros.
3. Busque informação antes de perguntar.
4. Não crie drama.
5. Não reduplique esforços.
6. Não queira crédito pelo que outros fizeram.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

I've been thinking about social mechanics in online environments for a few years, and this arsehole filter definitively sounds true for me. I think that it has a twofold mechanism:

• it's easier to endure arseholes if you're one
• your behaviour sets up the example for newbies

So arseholes have a higher re-incidence and proliferation than nice people.

I also think that this applies to assumptive/dumb/disingenuous vs. smart, and entitled/whiny vs. contributive people. If that's correct then the phenomenon is likely wider, and we could actually measure it for something else. It wouldn't prove that the arsehole filter is true, but it would strengthen the hypothesis.

lvxferre , 1 month ago (edited 24 days ago)

And I supposed to care that the poor SEO assholes that need to get their ads more visibility weren’t being given all the instructions on how to do that by the search engine?

No. You're supposed to care that a company is pointlessly* lying, thus it's extremely likely to deceive, mislead and lie when it gets some benefit out of it.

In other words: SEO arseholes can ligma, Google is lying to you and me too.

*I say "pointlessly" because not disclosing info would achieve practically the same result as lying.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Modlog to the rescue. It stinks scam from a distance. And spam. Scam spam.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

I dug a bit further into the matter.

The one changing the surname wasn't this guy Benjamin, but his father Benzion Mileikowsky → Benzion Netanyahu. He did it as settling in Israel, as it was customary for Zionists.

Relevant quote from Benzion:

"The tendency to conflict is in the essence of the Arab. He is an enemy by essence. His personality won't allow him any compromise. It doesn't matter what kind of resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. His existence is one of perpetual war," he told the Maariv daily in 2009.

I don't usually talk politics through this account but what a sorry excuse of a human being.

(My own city Curitiba is a counterpoint to that. As much shit that might happen here, even with somewhat expressive Arabic and Jewish immigration, we never had any serious issue with them. So "perhaps", just "perhaps", the Arab-Jewish conflict is not caused by the nature of either, but by the State of Israel's Lebensraum policies???)

lvxferre , 1 month ago

https://i.imgur.com/ga95NAk.jpeg

Cute cat deserves it.

lvxferre OP , 1 month ago

Yup, first paragraph describes her perfectly. The second one describes my other cat, Siegfrieda the crosswords pro:

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/6370d99d-fd06-4b10-8c5d-f3a8dae1f796.jpeg

Bonus points: Kika meowing loudly because she "hunted" something and wants everyone to see it. Typically a pen, some leaf that fell off in the patio, or an empty cig pack (she thinks that the recyclables bin is a toy box).

lvxferre OP , 1 month ago

Party hard!

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Instantly joined it.

I actually like LLMs and diffusion models. But I'm not going to pretend that the fairly solid criticism, that makes people say "fuck AI!", is unfounded. Fuck the people developing AI, and marketing it, and shoving it down your throat even when you don't want it. And also some of the ones using it.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

I'm almost sure that they use the same model for Gemini and for the A"I" answers, so patching the "put glue on pizza" answer for one also patches it for another.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Even when drinking alone, there are often rituals. It's the same in spirit for everyone, but the specifics are individual. For me it plays a lot like in a certain song: waiting for the water to heat up without boiling, thinking about life, often watching the sunrise or recalling some dream.

Perhaps that's why the Druze would stick with the custom, too. I think that they "get" it - it isn't just "drinking", it's also the introspection that comes with it.

There are also plenty local differences. For example, the grandpa in the pic has a coconut-shaped gourd, fairly common there in Uruguay; here in Paraná (1000~1500km up north), in Santa Catarina and in Rio Grande, gourds typically have a large lip, like mine:

https://i.imgur.com/uYSngwS.jpeg

The ones that I saw the most in Argentina are from a third style, kind of a middle ground between my gourd and that grandpa's gourd.Then to the West (Paraguay, Mato Grosso do Sul, and even a chunk of Paraná) you'll often see people using cow horns for tereré.

What you drink might also change depending on the place. Even among hot mate drinkers; for example the further south you go, the more roasted is the yerba. It can be also coarse or almost like a flour in texture.

lvxferre , 29 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

And a heartfelt hi from another A Clockwork Orange fan. I bloody love the book. (And the movie, too.)

Truth is, I was trying to be simple, so I mentioned the horns/guampas in MS instead. It seems to me that they (you?) consume mate far more as tereré than hot mate/chimarrão. Even some of the folks in Paraná's third plateau would rather use glasses. (I'm from Curitiba, so rather far from them. The first time I saw it - mate on a large glass, with lemon soda - I couldn't help but "...what?" It's comfy in the summer though.)

lvxferre , 1 month ago

For people who have a really hard time with #2 (memorable passwords), here's a trick to make good passwords that are easy to remember but hard to guess.

1. Pick some quote (prose, lyrics, poetry, whatever) with 8~20 words or so. Which one is up to you, just make sure that you know it by heart. Example: "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" (That's from Ozymandias)
2. Pick the first letter of each word in that quote, and the punctuation. Keep capitalisation as in the original. Example: "LomW,yM,ad!"
3. Sub a few letters with similar-looking symbols and numbers. Like, "E" becomes "3", "P" becomes "?", you know. Example: "L0mW,y3,@d!" (see what I did there with M→3? Don't be too obvious.)

Done. If you know the quote and the substitution rules you can regenerate the password, but it'll take a few trillion years to crack something like this.

6. Home Remedies for Appendicitis // If you’ve ever had appendicitis, you know that it’s a condition that requires immediate medical attention, usually in the form of emergency surgery at the hospital. But when I asked “how to treat appendix pain at home,” it advised me to boil mint leaves and have a high-fiber diet.

That's an issue with the way that LLM associate words with each other:

• mint tea is rather good for indigestion. Appendicitis → abdominal pain → indigestion, are you noticing the pattern?
• high-fibre diet reduces cramps, at least for me. Same deal: appendicitis → abdominal pain → cramps.

(As the article says, if you ever get appendicitis, GET TO A BLOODY DOCTOR. NOW.)

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And as someone said in a comment, in another thread, quoting yet another user: for each of those shitty results that you see being ridiculed online, Google is outputting 5, 10, or perhaps 100 wrong answers that exactly one person will see, and take as incontestable truth.

lvxferre , 1 month ago (edited 24 days ago)

TL;DR: your statements are incorrect and you're being assumptive.

Steps 2 and 3 of your method already make it way too hard to remember

Step 2 is "hard"? Seriously??? It boils down to "first letter of each word, as it's written, plus punctuation".

Regarding step 3, I'll clarify further near the end.

Just pick like 6 random, unconnected, reasonably uncommon words and make that your entire password

That's a variation of the "correct horse battery staple" method. It works with some caveats:

1. Your method does not scale well at all. If you try to harden it further, by using more words, you hit Miller's Law. My method however scales considerably better because there's some underlying meaning (for you) on what you're using to extend the password further.
2. Even in English, a language that typically uses short words, your method requires ~30 characters per password. Larger and less dense passwords are actually an issue because some systems have a max password size, like Lemmy (60chars max). My method however uses less characters to output the same amount of entropy.
3. The least common the word, the more useful for a password, and yet the harder to remember. With synonyms and near-synonyms making it even harder. Typically less common words are also longer, making #2 even more problematic.

The average English speaker has about 20k words in their active vocab, so if you run the numbers there’s more entropy in that than in your 11 character suggestion.

I'll interpret your arbitrary/"random" restriction to English as being a poorly conveyed example. Regardless.

The suggestion is the procedure. The 11 characters password is not the suggestion, but an example, clearly tagged as such. You can easily apply this method to a longer string, and you'll accordingly get a larger password with more entropy, it's a no-brainer.

For further detail, here's the actual maths.

• Your method: 20k states/word (as you specified English). log₂(20k) = 14.3 bits of entropy. For six words, as you suggested, 86 bits. The "capitalise the first" and "add 1 to the end" rules do nothing, since systematic changes don't raise entropy.
• My method: at least 70 states/char (26 capital letters, 26 minuscule letters, 10 digits, ~8 punctuation marks); log₂(70)=6.1. Outputs the same entropy as yours after 14 chars or so.

Now, regarding step #3. It does increase a little the amount of entropy. But the main reason that it's there is another - plenty systems refuse passwords that don't contain numbers, and some even catch on your "add 1 to the end" trick.

EDIT: I did a major rewording of this comment, fixing the maths and reasoning. I'm also trying to be less verbose.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

With EFF proposing it (plus xkcd proposing something so extremely similar that they're likely related), it's actually worse. If passwords like this get common enough, all that crackers need to do is to bruteforce the words themselves, instead of individual characters.

The EFF list has 6⁵ = 7776 words. If you're using six of them, you get (7776)⁶ = 2.2*10^23 different states, or 77.5 bits of entropy.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

I’ve run into more password validation prohibiting a 13 character password for being too long than for being too short

This problem is even worse with the method that the EFF proposes, as it'll output passphrases with an average of 42 characters, all of them alphabetic.

But if you disagree - when do you think 77.5 bits of entropy is insufficient for an end-user? And what process for password generation can you name that has higher entropy and is still easily memorized by users?

Emphasis mine. You're clearly not reading the comments within their context; do it. I laid out the method. TL;DR: first letter of each word + punctuation of some quote that you like, with some ad hoc 1337speak-like subs.

On how much entropy is enough: 77 bits is fine, really. However, look at the context: the other user brought up this "ackshyually its less enrropy lol" matter up against the method that I've proposed, and I've showed that it is not the case.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Don't get me wrong, password managers are fucking great. But sometimes you need to remember a password. (Including one for Bitwarden itself.)

lvxferre , 1 month ago

If they’re going to keep this, they need it to cite its sources at a bare minimum.

Got a fun one for you then. I asked Gemini (likely the same underlying model as Google's AI answers) "How many joules of energy can a battery output? Provide sources." I'll skip to the relevant part:

Here are some sources that discuss battery capacity and conversion to Joules:

• Battery Electronics 101 explains the formula and provides an example.\
• Answers on Engineering Stack Exchange [invalid URL removed] discuss how to estimate a AA battery's total energy in Joules.

The link to the first "source" was a made up site, https://gemini.google.com/axconnectorlubricant.com. The site axconnectorlubricant.com does exist, but it has zero to do with the topic, it's about a lubricant. No link provided for the second "source".

lvxferre , 1 month ago

The reason why Google is doing this is simply PR. It is not to improve its service.

The underlying tech is likely Gemini, a large language model (LLM). LLMs handle chunks of words, not what those words convey; so they have no way to tell accurate info apart from inaccurate info, jokes, "technical truths" etc. As a result their output is often garbage.

You might manually prevent the LLM from outputting a certain piece of garbage, perhaps a thousand. But in the big picture it won't matter, because it's outputting a million different pieces of garbage, it's like trying to empty the ocean with a small bucket.

I'm not making the above up, look at the article - it's basically what Gary Marcus is saying, under different words.

And I'm almost certain that the decision makers at Google know this. However they want to compete with other tendrils of the GAFAM cancer for a turf called "generative models" (that includes tech like LLMs). And if their search gets wrecked in the process, who cares? That turf is safe anyway, as long as you can keep it up with enough PR.

Google continues to say that its AI Overview product largely outputs “high quality information” to users.

There's a three letters word that accurately describes what Google said here: lie.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Fuck. I'm stealing this comment - it's brilliant.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

CONTEXT. USE IT.

This was shared in !fuckcars for a reason dammit. OP is criticising the car-centric urban layout of those suburban environments, not the people living there.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

I'd suggest Mint. It's Ubuntu minus Ubuntu-specific annoyances, so it's right in your zone of familiarity. Friendly enough so my tech-illiterate mum uses it, unobtrusive enough so I've been using it without issues.

Arch would give you more control, and you've been getting into it, it's also a good option.

As much as I hate doing it, I'd recommend using the proprietary NVidia drivers. I also have a NVidia GPU; the difference in performance between the proprietary drivers vs. Nouveau is noticeable for me. Worst hypothesis though it's fine to test and see which works better for your machine.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

May she rest in peace, with very petting and much happy.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Regarding specifically Brazil, I can answer that.

The most used pieces of Fediverse software are for microblogging (Mastodon, Misskey) and forum discussion (Lemmy). But when you look at the statistics for usage of social media platforms in Brazil, here's what it shows:

YouTube (89%), Instagram (85%), Facebook (84%), TikTok (49%), Pinterest (37%), Twitter (36%), Linkedin (35%), Snapchat (15%), Twitch (9%), Reddit (6%), Tumblr (5%), Hello (3%), Flickr (2%), Quora (2%), WeChat (2%), MeWe (1%), others (7%).

Neither microblogging nor forum discussion are popular in Brazil; the top contenders are video services (YT, TT), and the Meta cancer tendrils (IG, FB) behaving as Orkut replacement goldfish. So the main Fediverse services are alternatives for things that, locally, are not overly common to begin with, when people have their "motherfucking caramel" doing funny shit they beeline for TT or FB.

Another factor that I think that reduces Fediverse usage in Brazil is Anglocentrism. Brazilians are mostly monolingual; the exceptions are typically 1) from a colonial background, or 2) highly educated, and only (2) applies here. For most people in Brazil, English content is the same as nothing, or as "the skwerlficashun! throovy! afdsjkfdsa!".

That backtracks into your OP. I believe that Fediverse success requires

• diversification of the platforms widely used and available in the Fediverse
• better ways to handle language that reduce the "I don't speak it so it's noise" issue

Even with that in mind my city has a Mastodon server. I often lurk there because I'm a verbose fuck, not suited for microblogging; but it's comfy.

lvxferre , 1 month ago

Out [Brazilian] biggest Mastodon instance (ursal.zone) is locally hosted, but is behind Cloudflare and appears as US in this list. Most of Brazilian instances are foreign hosted because of cost. This table [the one in the OP] means nothing in terms of fediverse penetration on Brazil.

That's why I'm not using OP's data on first place.

With that in mind, look at your own example, ursalzona. Acc. to you, it's "our biggest Mastodon instance"; it has 500 MAU. For comparison, the biggest Japanese instance has 23k, even if serving a smaller population (126M vs. 215M).

The data might be inaccurate, but OP is correctly highlighting an actual issue - the Fediverse has barely any impact outside a few highly developed countries.

We have a huge population, and even as most of Brazilian are monolingual, the minority of bilinguals are millions that can read English.

More specifically 5%/215M = ~11M. And my point still stands; for 95% of the population, it's pragmatically the same as if most content in the Fediverse was in Klingon. Here network effect kick us (Fediverse users) on the balls, Merda Meta is so pervasive that people don't see the point - "I can see caramel dogs being arseholes in Fezesbook, but in Mastodon it's just a handful of Portuguese speakers, why bother?"

lvxferre , 1 month ago

I had to websearch the term to know what they were talking about. Pfft, internet oddities.

Case in point. At least some side is lying here; either the people from r/gooncaves or the Reddit administration. And given their modus operandi I'm placing my bets on the admins lying.

Frankly, at this rate someone might end suing Reddit for libel in those ban messages. I think that it deserves it.

lvxferre , 27 days ago

Sorry beforehand for the long reply.

Initially, one of .ml's admins (who's also a Lemmy developer) manually excluded ani.social from the list of instances in the join-lemmy site, and defederated it from .ml. When requested to revert the change, he falsely claimed that the instance is "full of CSAM". Eventually, the other .ml admin + Lemmy dev reviewed the "evidence" brought by the first one, concluded "there's no CSAM" here, and reverted that change.

They kept ani.social defederated, but that's fine - .ml is strictly SFW, there's some NSFW content in ani.social, so it's consistent.

Some time goes by, and a user creates a thread about "Mahou Shoujo something" in the !anime .ml community. I don't like that series; but more importantly it is NSFW, so the discussion was removed by a third .ml admin (not a dev).

Then we (a few users, incl. me) started discussing the eventual migration of the comm to ani.social. Because we knew that issues like this would keep happening, it was the best for both sides. With those first and third admins finding low-hanging fruits to wreck the discussion across multiple threads, such as "it lists to a pedo instance" or "doxxing" people. Claims that are blatantly knowingly false, because:

• ani.social was linked in the sidebar of !anime ml for ages, and the local admins never bothered with it. But "suddenly" it becomes an issue, concomitantly with people discussing the migration of a comm to another instance?
• one of the people discussing the migration brought the contradiction above to the admins' attention. And yet the link stayed there, even if the admins were in a position to change it. Showing that no, linking ani.social was not the real issue that prompted the removal of the discussion, but the discussion about emigrating from that instance.
• In no moment, the people talking about the admin actions referred to personally identifiable information, like "you're John Smith"; we solely associated the administrative actions with the usernames. And that was done in a neutral tone, with zero harassment from my knowledge. (Relevant tidbit: both admins clearly use pseudonyms.)
• To add injury, the third admin in question was grasping at straws to defend the necessity of an anime community in an instance about open source and privacy, in a way not too unlike spez' "I'm one of you! We snoos stand together!" babble.

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From public PoV, the matter ends here: you have the .ml admin team enforcing hidden rules and taking users as cattle to be herded. From my PoV, it gets worse.

I used to moderate a large-ish comm there, called !snoocalypse, about Reddit's downfall. In that comm, users (including me, the mod) were consistently saying stuff like "Steve Huffman the greedy pigboy". And in no moment the .ml admins took action against it, or even contacted me to say "hey mod, don't let your users do that".

So, naming someone by their RL name to call him a "greedy pigboy" is not doxxing. But stating which admin took which action by their username, in a neutral way, is suddenly doxxing??? And there's no way that the admins never saw it, because they were often removing content there.

Of course, the content that they were removing was from another nature: posts criticising either the Russian Federation or the People's Republic of China, typically under the allegations that violated rules #1 and #2 (basically: bigotry and making people feel unwelcome, or something like this).

Don't get me wrong, my issue is not that they were removing that criticism. I probably wouldn't bat an eye if they had some written rule like "don't criticise the RF or the PRC here"; I do criticise both but I'd see it within their rights. My issue here is to distort what others users say to fit the rules being listed, in order to enforce some rule not being listed, that is literally Reddit admins tier behaviour.