Comment

Comment on Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows

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.

source

Sort:hotnew top

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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 :)

source
tfm@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The cool thing is that instances can decide on their own if they want to tolerate that or not

source
Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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.

source
- PunkiBas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Enshitification. I don’t think you know what that word means.
  
  source
  - Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I know exactly what it means so no need for your condescending comment.
    
    source
    RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    So you deliberately used it wrong? Fairo.
    
    source
- tehn00bi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You know what to do fam… -100 votes for this guy.
  
  source
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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.

source
dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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 abandoned and been 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 spam on the site.

source