Way to go! I'm still working on that, but I'm close as well :)
Bit envious on the dumb phone part. I just can't live without my bank app, browser and signal. There were these "half dumb half android" phones from Nokia and they seemed to work well with messaging apps but bank/browser was bit clunky.
Well, like any other rules. The community helps a lot with this.
Most of the time it's clear and OP doesn't hide the fact - in those cases we hope OP checks the rules before posting and then decides not to.
But, let's say some popular post gets a lot of comments, one of the comments is just two lines of harmless AI text so no one pays attention or knows it's genAI and therefore no one reports it: we wont notice and the comment that technically breaks the rules is staying. The commenter has either not read the rules or, if they have, is celebrating their victory at home for passing the great mod filter wall.
Mods are just normal users part of this community and volunteered to moderate this community when they can. Mostly we have been acting on reports by other users of this community and we filter out troll posts and comments that are just e.g. racist, transphobic, etc.
We don't have some fine modding tools that parse every post and comment, if no one notices / reports rule breaking content then it won't be acted upon.
This is awesome, and I like that the dev of gohug.eu answered as well and offered to collaborate.
I'll have a chat about all of the recent links with the modteam and if we could link them in the sidebar.
Ahh crap, that sucks.. Didnt even try that.. Well glad you found out before completely moving to tuta. I wish you luck on finding your new email provider!
And yeah I also would've liked IMAP support because I love thunderbird, but we'll see. Also trying stuff out and seeing where to go in the end.
For this community specifically I somewhat answered your question in this comment chain.
TLDR: we won't probably always know. We trust that this rule is a clear guideline and hope people read rules before posting.
Sounds like a good clear todo you have there, I wish you luck! Don't hesitate to ask in a post for recommendations if you feel like it.
For emails I can personally recommend Tuta, but we've got quite a few posts about that and people have different preferences :)
Happy to hear! And I have similar experiences. Digital clean-up was the most visible part of my journey to go european.
Also you are right: this community has really helped me too. It's also awesome to have a community where everyone shares the same struggles as well and I love personal posts here that ask or tell about their experiences, recent finds, and so on!
Yeah my main interest in this community is the topic, and thankfully this doesn't really affect this community dramatically since the content that people post is generally not related to AI.
And anyway, good to have clear guidelines. There are plenty of communities where the focus is AI (or anti-AI) and for feddit.uk users who want to participate still can (the ban is about communities hosted on feddit.uk, they are not defederating or banning AI on remote communities).
@huppakee@lemm.ee already gave the perfect answer in a reply to you, but in general some content is just clearly AI generated and we didn't have a rule about that before.
I'm not going to be trigger happy and label every suspected post as genAI and I don't have enough resources to check. This is mostly to give people posting here guidelines as to what is acceptable.
The post that triggered this discussion in this community was not hiding the fact that it was AI and also OP wasn't acting in bad faith - they even stated that "the posting rules didn't prohibit AI content", which is fair enough.
The rule has been added because communities have to follow the rules of the instance they are hosted on and feddit.uk (buyeuropean is hosted on feddit.uk) has introduced this rule.
If they had not introduced it we would have had to have a discussion about genAI rule anyway on this community, because it was a controversial topic as we saw on an earlier post here.
Yeah it seemed like community had some thoughts about it and better to have a clear entry about that in the sidebar.
I've been super interested in /e/OS since fairphone had an option to have it preinstalled on one of their models. Glad to hear positive experiences!
I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks!