Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free

• bassow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The old internet was hidden behind dial-up modems and TCP-IP stacks and weird telnet and usenet protocols. This complexity worked as a filter and the people using it were mostly academics, students, techies and other nerds (me amongst them). The moment uncle Bob could poke his way through social media on his phone from the shitter, the whole thing cascaded into Eternal September and “the old internet” was lost forever.

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• Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Trolls, bots, and scammers make them necessary, at a minimum, and then the subliminal messaging from the cronies of politicians, etc. make them welcome. Bots are easier to make than ever before so you can’t compare the past with the present that easily. kbin.social died last year because of relentless spam bots posting garbage/malware links 100x/sec.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Computer bots always act a certain predictable way. You can filter out most bots easily based on time-based filters or other algorithms. The rest should not be moderated, except for illegal things like selling weapons, drugs, or hiring a hitman.

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    • RightEdofer@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What’s your solution to that? Not filtering out bots? Or manually moderating? The latter is even more expensive.

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    • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the extremism follow.

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      • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s fine by me. I’m capable of ignoring that. Call me anything you want. Insult my family, my life, my person, my culture; I literally don’t care. I’m either going to ignore you or respond accordingly. Let the extremist come in. Everyone that can’t handle it is a weak wimp that isn’t worthy of the free internet.

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• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What? The old internet absolutely had moderation, even back in the day of BBS.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guess you never used forums.

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