I don’t see how this is any different from adding another e-mail account on gmail.

Which one?

Adblockers can do more than just block ads, they also allow you to customize websites. As a simple example you can remove the annoying headers on youtube channels that take half the screen:

It’s also great for news sites. I have a filter to remove articles on topics I don’t care about. I also have rules to prevent these sites from automatically reloading after certain amount of time, something that I find very annoying.

You’re putting too much importance into this matter. If this is distressing you should let it go and think about something else.

Dude, chill. Even if you’re right, having a meltdown on github doesn’t help anybody. Go outside and take a breath.

What I’d really like to have is a tool that lists blocked communities. That information is not as public as defederated instances.

Linux Hater’s Blog was half satire and half honest criticism.

This reminds me of the old linux hater’s blog post “At least we don’t have any viruses”.

Under his tweet a lot of “verified” (=right wing) accounts plauded this and asked to fight employers who fired employees for having written something homophobic

Any examples of that?

And those who want to review every single one manually can still do that.

But will they? This tool promotes blindly trusting another instance block list without due diligence from the admin.

this process and improves Lemmy’s capability to protect it’s users from spam and brigading

That assumes defederation only happens in those cases. You have an account from lemmy.world, so I guess you trust that instance. You know, the same instance that preemptively defederated from hexbear.net for political reasons. You see the problem?

This is a terrible idea that steers lemmy into being an echo chamber. Let admins use their own judgement.

Let’s see…

They may create text which appears to human eyes like the result of thinking, reasoning, or understanding, but it is in fact anything but.

For generation of fictional text and images that’s fine.

There is a pack mentality in rushing to invest in these tools, while overlooking the fact that they threaten workers

Like any other case of automation in the history of society.

[…] and impact consumers by creating lesser quality products

That sounds very subjective.

and allowing more erroneous outputs.

Large language models should not be used as a source of facts, that’s why they all warn you about their limitations. LLMs are tools and should be used properly. A blow torch can get your balls burnt if used improperly.

free speech instances

Any examples?