☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoDecentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchywww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareBedSharkPal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoDoesn’t solve astroturfing via bots, but at least there isn’t centralized manipulation.
minus-squareeldavi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agolemmy’s got it figured out and i think it’s by accident; just stay away from the large instances. it’s going to be interesting to see how quickly mastadon gets swallowed up by the profit motive.
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt does help with it though For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?
minus-squareMinFapper@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoSo far it’s helped in motivation, but not in implementation. Turns out combatting bots is a hard problem and hobbyist admins and nonprofits have a lot less resources than their for-profit counterparts.
Doesn’t solve astroturfing via bots, but at least there isn’t centralized manipulation.
lemmy’s got it figured out and i think it’s by accident; just stay away from the large instances.
it’s going to be interesting to see how quickly mastadon gets swallowed up by the profit motive.
It does help with it though
For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?
So far it’s helped in motivation, but not in implementation.
Turns out combatting bots is a hard problem and hobbyist admins and nonprofits have a lot less resources than their for-profit counterparts.