Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free
Flagstaff@programming.dev 11 months agoTrolls, 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.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What’s your solution to that? Not filtering out bots? Or manually moderating? The latter is even more expensive.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And the extremism follow.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If they stay on the net fine, but no amount of tick skin n is bullet proof. Its not if but when those extremists move off line.