It’s not power tripping, as you said in a comment.
But it is bullshit, and they can fuck right off with the “too much detail, done locally” shit.
Look, I’m all for auto mod tools. I’ve been vocal about it being why I would never mod a large community on the fediverse. There’s just too much assholery online to not have a tool that filters out the assholes before anyone else is exposed to it.
But, with reddit, anyone could look at the documentation on what auto mod could do. You knew, if you wanted, what was an wasn’t possible. You could easily figure out why your comment or post ran afoul of it. Despite the complaints aboue its misuse, it was the thing that made modding a subreddit halfway bearable. And, when used appropriately, it made being part of a sub a much better experience.
But this? The lack of transparency about what’s going on, what the tool does, how it does it, just ain’t cool. It flies in the face of what the fediverse is supposed to be.
It’s llm/ai surveillance without even source available access so a given user can decide to opt the fuck out.
Like I said, a tool like that is a good thing, not a bad one. But not being open is abhorrent for this use.
Edit: for any stragglers, do read the responses made by people from the instance in question before raising any hell. They seem to be on board with providing good info to possible new users and informing current users that might object.
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