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before super reacts launched, discord told me several times about super reacts and encouraged using them, without any indication of which guilds were in the testing cohort (it was virtually none of them)
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mobile recently showed me a huge popup encouraging me to use the new spring-themed nitro avatar frames, despite that i was already using a new spring-themed nitro avatar frame
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now mobile is repeatedly showing me popups about trying out clyde, their new LLM bot. the popup seems to be triggered by switching guilds, but it has consistently and only happened when switching to a guild that does not have clyde yet
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their plan seems to be to just dump an LLM bot i.e. garbage generator in every channel of every guild by default, which is fucking bananas
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if you ask the bot how to disable it, it gives you the wrong answer (talking about roles and permissions). the correct answer is that it's under server settings → integrations
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since the bot is not a real user, you can't block it
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since the bot is not a real user, i don't think permissions apply to it either? which would mean you can't even corral it into particular channels? but i've been unable to confirm this
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again i don't understand why you'd want this. LLMs largely produce noise and i always feel like i'm getting dumber for having read their output. and even if it's something some folks want, why not make it an opt-in instead of this fucking gradual A/B rollout where i have to keep checking whether i've even gotten access to the checkbox that lets me turn it off yet
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addendum: you can't block pluralkit either, which means anywhere that has pluralkit enabled is basically just a block circumvention paradise. this isn't discord's fault exactly since they didn't make pluralkit, but it's the same kind of problem as not being able to block clyde, so actually it is their fault
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in reply to @lexyeevee's post:
fun fact: clyde is vulnerable to prompt injection attacks via your bio content
that should be cool and cyberpunk but in practice i just feel like we live in the dumbest of all futures
Yeah, Discord has been going down the toilet fast for a long while now.
Has to have been 5 years ago when discord stopped being able to share my audio when screensharing. And yeah it's been downhill from there, they can't even get basic functionality working for certain things yet they keep shoveling these new garbage "features" down our throats.
Also, due to certain bot permissions being allowed, some users have been infected in such a way that they are UNABLE to leave certain servers because the bot has permissions to make them join a server, so the moment they leave they are back, meanwhile the mods on the server are making fun of them. I think it's what happens as a result of clicking on one of those "free nitro!!!" sort of things that look semi-official.
linux has never had audio sharing 🙃
and yeah patreon integration works that way too, good times
I've been told that the patreon integration JUST got granular settings for which servers you get joined to a month or two ago. I haven't dared find out myself.
This was obviously a very garbage way of setting this up but I put the blame more on patreon than discord in this case.
Unfortunately the granular settings are still stupidly implemented, basically now patreon creators can choose which support tiers get autoadded to the discord but it's still not left up to the supporter at the time of signup
Linux had working audio sharing for part of 2020 and 2021 (if you were using pulse audio and pipejack), and it went away as unceremoniously as it arrived, which was somehow worse.
discords ToS prevents people from making their own clients that fix this (even with a slight chromium mod that allows it, or pipes it into pipewire), but it also is interpreted so vaguely that people are afraid or losing their discord accounts due to even using them.
tbf there's no way to make pluralkit blockable really since it uses webhooks (and that's the only automatable way to get custom usernames and pfps on messages) there are alternatives like https://github.com/naneko/Polyphony that should be blockable (i think) and also can have roles assigned and stuff but they require manually creating a new bot per headmate iirc
which would be absurd for a system of our size (26), let alone a polyfragmented system
which is why i say it's discord's fault, since the platform does have some concept of what "one webhook" is, so there's no reason they couldn't be blockable
(granted that would still be all-or-nothing in the case of pluralkit but it would be something)
sure would be great if discord just like. made it easy to juggle multiple accounts so people wouldn't have to go to extremes to have alts
that would still be all-or-nothing in the case of pluralkit
webhooks can already send a custom avatar and username with every message so why not a custom identifier for blocking reasons? missed opportunity tbh
JUST before reading this chost I remembered that reduced motion is a setting that helps remove bullshit from discord, and used it to disable those stupid animated reacts.
THOSE FUCKING LLM POPUPS
No, Discord, I do not need to be told about you stupid bot every time I interact with the app
I know it's a rhetorical question, but to answer it anyway: Discord has just hit the "oh shit, how are we going to make profit if everybody's using our product for free" phase of tech industry product management.
that's the easy cynical answer but it doesn't really make sense here
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i am already a paying customer and discord is pestering me to use features that i am already using
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clyde is a free thing that costs someone enormous amounts of processing power and doesn't incentivize nitro sales at all
I'm sure some VP is doing the mental gymnastics trying to explain how AI is the Next Big Thing and by having some form, any form, of tangible AI on their website that this will drive a huge new influx of users and thus more nitro sales. Limit "useful" "features" of the bot to boosted servers or whatever.
None of this actually makes any sense in the real world, as you say it's going to be a huge resource drain for no real payoff. But that VP has to justify a 6 figure salary somehow. Teslas don't pay themseves.