I mean, you can write however you like. But it does kinda give the vibes of it being written like a click bait YouTube speaks.

It’s less any verbosity, and more that the sentence and post structures sound very ai. Not that you’d be the only person that just writes like that, but especially the concluding paragraph sounds exactly like something an LLM would output.

Lol, I might need help, but not cause of this. In the end, it doesn’t really matter either way, but I do think it’s interesting what writing quirks make someone perceive a text as more likely to be generated.

Yes, darling, I’m not illiterate. I don’t think every long, grammatically correct text with sub-headings is generated. Sometimes I even write long-form text myself.

What tripped me up here is:

• the use of “— listed” for some of the things… listed,
• the two short definitive sentences here

355 of the 552 usernames are plain alphabetic, twelve characters or under, median length eight. Only 36 look like spam registrations. A bot list looks like the opposite of that.

• the way an already obvious but irrelevant point is overstated here

Seven of them aren’t even Lemmy. There are Mastodon and Friendica accounts in there: people who have never used Lemmy, hidden by a Lemmy frontend, with no possible way of finding out.

• the way something obvious from context is stated in a dramatic way here

I have the list and I’m not posting it.

• “Doesn’t survive the X” is a very Claude sentence for me. It is also a statement I feel isn’t entirely supported by fact, since the mayority of the active users and communities here are leftist.

A lot of that domain list is real spam defence. It filters conservatism as well as communism. “It targets the left” doesn’t survive the data and I’m not going to pretend it does.

• X is not Y statement, with X and Y being actions done by entirely different parties, which doesn’t really make sense contextually.

But forking isn’t disclosure,

• They stated they’d put the full list in the comments, which they didn’t do, and which also doesn’t jive with the earlier statement about hiding individual usernames. Also, the unedited feels superfluous.

Full contents of every list, unedited, in the comments.

Sorry for the shitty formatting, I am writing this on the train to have something to do after my headphones died. Also, there isn’t any definitive proof here, but all of this contributes to the generated feel.

As I said, as long as it’s drm free, you usually just have the executable that just runs. Even under Windows, though I haven’t run a game under Windows in years. The reference to Lutris was cause I assumed most people who’d consider self-hosting this would likely be running Linux anyway.

And this project is only targeting drm free games anyway.

From my experience, you usually have a single executable inside the game folder. You’d of course have to point e.g. Lutris at that, but depending on how often you install/uninstall games, this isn’t a huge hurdle.

They are saying there’s option 1 and 2. 1 is, you copy the files to your local drive from the NAS via CLI/your file manager. Option 2 is you run this and download them via a Browser or Desktop Client. They are saying they don’t see what utility Option 2 provides, and that it might be more sensible if the software where to also provide Game Streaming (game runs on server, a video stream is provided to the client, inputs are are streamed back to the server).

This make it more clear?

There’s a lot of specific sentence fragments that read very LLM to me. In the end, that of course isn’t proof, and there definitely are people who’s style is very close to what LLMs output today.

I host several services accessible via the open Web. They are isolated enough that a breach would most likely only compromise that service. They are also kept up to date, and logs are monitored.

There’s always a risk when exposing something, and I am limiting some services to access via VPN because either the data in them is too sensitive, or I don’t trust them to be secure enough.

You probably also aren’t a worthwhile target in most cases.

This all sucks, but also, please stop using LLMs to write long (or any) texts. It ends up sounding silly.

Also, all of them (I’ve seen) have a new account, and all their text output seems LLM generated, with them claiming it’s cause english isn’t their native language and they need LLMs to translate - on that note, that’s suspect to me, cause translating a human written text, at least with dedicated translation services, tends to retain a human structure. This feels more like they’re generating the whole message.

Doesn’t apply here, but some also had a story about “working in X trade for Y years”. It all feels very disingenuous, very much like marketing. I’d be surprised if even half of these projects are still around in two years time.

Rant over, just something that grinds my gears.