Well, like any other rules. The community helps a lot with this.

Most of the time it’s clear and OP doesn’t hide the fact - in those cases we hope OP checks the rules before posting and then decides not to.

But, let’s say some popular post gets a lot of comments, one of the comments is just two lines of harmless AI text so no one pays attention or knows it’s genAI and therefore no one reports it: we wont notice and the comment that technically breaks the rules is staying. The commenter has either not read the rules or, if they have, is celebrating their victory at home for passing the great mod filter wall.

Mods are just normal users part of this community and volunteered to moderate this community when they can. Mostly we have been acting on reports by other users of this community and we filter out troll posts and comments that are just e.g. racist, transphobic, etc.

We don’t have some fine modding tools that parse every post and comment, if no one notices / reports rule breaking content then it won’t be acted upon.

This is awesome, and I like that the dev of gohug.eu answered as well and offered to collaborate.

I’ll have a chat about all of the recent links with the modteam and if we could link them in the sidebar.

Ahh crap, that sucks… Didnt even try that… Well glad you found out before completely moving to tuta. I wish you luck on finding your new email provider!

And yeah I also would’ve liked IMAP support because I love thunderbird, but we’ll see. Also trying stuff out and seeing where to go in the end.

For this community specifically I somewhat answered your question in this comment chain.

TLDR: we won’t probably always know. We trust that this rule is a clear guideline and hope people read rules before posting.

Sounds like a good clear todo you have there, I wish you luck! Don’t hesitate to ask in a post for recommendations if you feel like it.

For emails I can personally recommend Tuta, but we’ve got quite a few posts about that and people have different preferences :)

Happy to hear! And I have similar experiences. Digital clean-up was the most visible part of my journey to go european.

Also you are right: this community has really helped me too. It’s also awesome to have a community where everyone shares the same struggles as well and I love personal posts here that ask or tell about their experiences, recent finds, and so on!

Yeah my main interest in this community is the topic, and thankfully this doesn’t really affect this community dramatically since the content that people post is generally not related to AI.

And anyway, good to have clear guidelines. There are plenty of communities where the focus is AI (or anti-AI) and for feddit.uk users who want to participate still can (the ban is about communities hosted on feddit.uk, they are not defederating or banning AI on remote communities).

@huppakee@lemm.ee already gave the perfect answer in a reply to you, but in general some content is just clearly AI generated and we didn’t have a rule about that before.

I’m not going to be trigger happy and label every suspected post as genAI and I don’t have enough resources to check. This is mostly to give people posting here guidelines as to what is acceptable.

The post that triggered this discussion in this community was not hiding the fact that it was AI and also OP wasn’t acting in bad faith - they even stated that “the posting rules didn’t prohibit AI content”, which is fair enough.

Yeah it seemed like community had some thoughts about it and better to have a clear entry about that in the sidebar.

Same, I was surprisingly buying more local than I thought. But yeah also feel like I’m checking every label now.

Me too! And honestly it has raised my awareness on where the stuff I buy is from. Sometimes it’s unbelievable: Paprika all they way from California, US next to local paprika.

All good, thanks! :)

I know it’s kinda obvious in this post (lemmy username), but due to our rules:

OP could you add a disclaimer in your post body that this resource is owned by you :)

Edit: Thanks OP!

world4you.com is awesome. It’s strange I never see it suggested.

A good question! I didn’t find this information at a quick glance of the website or our previous threads so I’ll ping the dev:

@buyeuropean@feddit.org

Added bonus to saying that: everyone ducks their head suddenly

I like it!

Ha! Look! It’s the Qwantter! /s

Honestly “I’ll qwant it” rolls off the tongue nicely compared to “let me duckduckgo it” or any other alternative.

Great conclusion. And thanks for creating this thread, I tried finding the various discussions around this topic together with Blaze but most important part of it was on our Matrix channel and apparently you can’t search (atleast on encrypted chats) messages …

And buy-european dev has also discussed some of these things on reddit in the past but I don’t have a reddit account and couldn’t find the post I was looking for sadly. But now we have it on lemmy!

Good questions! I’ll put the link to this post in the stickied post about buy-european.net!