This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an …
    • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      Well I’ve definitely misinterpreted.

      This might be a UI issue, because I see the post as coming from ‘David Gerard@awful.systems’ and then I see your comment as

      @dgerard gtfo. Lol

      Which to me I interpreted as ‘lol this is David Gerard - gtfo here’. Especially with the reply from second user, “thanks, blocked”.

      • self@awful.systemsEnglish
        8·
        11 days ago

        adding to the confusion, the shithead who replied with “thanks, blocked” is, I’m fairly certain, already banned from our instance

        anyway yeah the lemmy/mastodon interop has many sharp edges

        • flere-imsaho@awful.systemsEnglish
          7·
          11 days ago

          at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it’s a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)

      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 days ago

        Mastodon just adds the username in the comment when replying to a Lemmy post or comment. It seems to be possible to remove the @-tag manually, but many people don’t do that.

        P.S. This also kinda illustrates how people tend to reply to the imaginary correspondent, even with rather rude language, when actually their replies go to the OP.