Exactly what the big platforms want, and exactly what’s different about Lemmy. Low-volume, high-quality interactions
You realize that the only reason Lemmy hasn’t become so enshitified is because the user base is too small for the corpos to seriously target it yet. The day Lemmy has more than a million users the army of bots will not be too far behind.
The cool thing is that instances can decide on their own if they want to tolerate that or not
At least they’ll never find a complicit management. Still it doesn’t matter, I’m going to enjoy this space while it’s nice :)
That will be only possible, if said companies will create their own instances, maybe even with ad support. Without that, all we gonna see is some corporations running said bots to promote their products. Just wait until someone is looking to but XY, then answer it with some semi-personalized with AI text to promote your own products. This can already happen with human-run accounts, but I’d choose some small business owner stumbling on Lemmy over a bot that AI generates me a response.
It’s not enshittification, but there’s a bunch of crappy rss bots on lemmy reposting low quality content pulled from various feeds. I feel like they’ve been abandoned and left to run creating internet litter around this site. I’ve started blocking them because I’m not against bots as a concept, but poorly written or with bad sources they can get pretty tiring. One of the things I appreciate about diggs $5 account fee is that it’d hopefully limit the amount of trolls/spam on the site.
Idk man, back in November the place was pretty enshitified. Not sure if it was just left wing nut jobs but anybody with a political position even close to center or right got about 100 downvotes and got called a Russian troll or worse.
Since then it’s been a lot better though.
Enshitification. I don’t think you know what that word means.
I know exactly what it means so no need for your condescending comment.
So you deliberately used it wrong? Fairo.
You know what to do fam… -100 votes for this guy.
Define “high quality” in this sense for me please
Real humans writing full sentences. Some platforms most of the comments are emojis or reaction gifs.
Then it’s not engagement. We have to stop this nonsense.
Also, we need laws making bots that pretend to be real users illegal. We’re heading for some black mirror shit otherwise.
The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.
If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.
Which is a good argument for regulation. Regulation prevents industry from doing things that may be in their individual best interest but are against public best interests or the best interests of the industry as a whole.
Unfortunately, the US administrative state is still being murdered. So, don’t expect act regs or enforcement to be seen out of the US and expect flagrant violation of EU and other regs due to mobster-style protectionism.
in other words, more societal disruption and mental health problems.
I fear that this will be used as a pretense to have a Real ID tied to all of your online accounts, and that it will be publicly facing.
And then if people come to your house after you share a wrongthink, or if part of who you are clashes with “the good ole days”, well then that’s just an unintended but necessary evil, so sit down and shut up.
I think the phrase they are seeking is signal to noise. The bots make noise but bury the signal making it harder to actually find and communicate with others who are actually engaging. Weird how that works.
No fucking shit, Sherlock. In other news: “water is wet” and “fire is hot”, and later “capitalism does nothing for non-capitalists, and should be overthrown”
Why is this not top comment?
Because it’s the same kind of tired “I knew it all along” comment that’s under every depressing post like this - a comment that simultaneously undervalues both deep analysis and scientific rigor in service of a cheap, emotional moment of superiority over those who “haven’t figured it out yet”.
Why u gotta be so far up ur own ass? “Undervalues both deep analysis and scientific rigor”, well excuse me for not keeping my cool at every moment like you in the face of inevitable demise. You fucking cunt.
Like UV light and moths. Just shine the light within an electrified fence and watch them pop.
And this is what happens when the measure becomes the target
Sounds like you’ve been afflicted with management a time or two in your past.
This is how you know Reddit is swarming with bots these days. Actually it’s fun to try to spot them. I’m pretty sure what’s been reported on is super under representative for anything after the release date of GPT.
