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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You’re missing the big impact here which is that bots can shift public opinion in mass which affects you directly.

    Gone are the days where individuals have their own opinions instead today opinions are just osmosised through social media.

    And if social media is essentially just a message bought by whoever can pay for the biggest bot farm, then anyone who thinks for themselves and wants to push back immediately becomes the enemy of everyone else.

    This is not a future that you want.


  • Mhm, I love dismissive “Look, it already works, and there’s nothing to improve” comments.

    Lemmy lacks significant capabilities to effectively handle the bots from 10+ years ago. Nevermind bots today.

    The controls which are implemented are implemented based off of “classic” bot concerns from nearly a decade ago. And even then, they’re shallow, and only “kind of” effective. They wouldn’t be considered effective for a social media platform in 2014, they definitely are not anywhere near capability today.