Lemmy doesn’t have a neural net prediction/recommendation engine. This is a HUGE difference.
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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
The amount of comments thinking that Lemmy is totally not like a typical social media is absurd.
Guys, we only don’t have major tracking of users here.That’s it! Everything else is the fucking same shit you’d see on facebook. The moment Lemmy gets couple tens of millions of users, we gonna become 2nd facebook.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
And for the same reasons folks got hooked on old reddit, folls get hooked on Lemmy (its me I’m folks please unplug me from the machine I can’t log out)
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
It’s not a typical social media because it’s decentralized, but it’s not immune to all the problems of social media by any means. Being relatively small is its biggest asset - if it ever got reddit big, it would end up the same way.
mack@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
yes, and no. what really Facebook lacks (along the top social medias) is strong negative feedback.
I don’t think the village idiot is going that far with the flat earth conspiracy when is publicly downvoted to oblivion
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I beg to disagree.
The reason all these delusional posts getting even upvoted to begin with is due to many like-minded people are gathered together in the same sub. As an example, reddit’s r/democrats and r/republicans. One is clearly more sane than another, yet try to say something in a wrong sub - get downvoted to oblivion. But if you spill your delusional shit in a r/republicans - upvotes galore and comments of praise.
Facebook groups are the same shit. And so is Lemmy. One thing in hexbear that is allowed could/will be the reason you got a ban in .world. Up/Downvotes cant fix that.
tl;dr Village idiots can join together to accumulate their own conspiracies in a big ass circlejerk, and social media has no power to stop it.
aquovie@lemmy.cafe 17 hours ago
Reddit has downvotes. That hasn’t saved it from misinformation, trolls, and radicalization.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I haven’t used FB in half a decade, but at least with respect to reddit, there are definitely more good “features” in the threadiverse than just lack of tracking.
Not saying there aren’t any issues or that scaling to 10 M MAUs won’t create new problems, but lack of tracking isn’t the only differentiating factor.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Yeah decentralization and open source software and protocols being big ones. It means that if the “main” culture turns reactionary, that we’re not trapped in the same spaces as the shithead just because we share a platform.
There could absolutely be two main fediverses, with no changes to the technology.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Yeah, op is clearly ignoring some very important differences that have actual, material consequences that are pretty obvious.
roserose56@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Facebook has lots of miss information and scams too, which here on Lemmy don’t have.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
if we’re immune to the problems, it would be because people here use critical thinking skills instead of swallowing large amounts of contents. that’s the sole reason, it has nothing to do with the network’s size.
hansolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
It’s that there’s no incentive to have 80 million bots manipulate everything. Our user base is too small, and likely too jaded about fake internet points to be a target for scammers, ai slop bots, or advertisers.
Or at least that’s what I thought when I drink a refreshing Pepsi! hiss-crack! glugg glugg Aaaah!! PEPSI! The brown fizz that satisfies! Pepsi!
someguy3@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
… If there are people to mislead with misinformation, or people with money to buy things, there will be incentive. I learned about this in this great book called
hansolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Lemmy is basically 30 or 40 Linux meme platforms begging for donations, full of people bitching about AI and politics, and recycling old reddit shitposts. I love it. I am home here. I love you all.
But, we aren’t running communities with millions of people trading crypto and stonks. There’s instances that are full on socialists. A pig butchering scam here would founder so badly they would banish anyone foolish enough to try it to redemtuon by spamming the comment sections of cooking blog posts before being summarily executed.
We have herd immunity.
someguy3@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Sorry but you are naive.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Exactly. Once we are a mainstream page to visit, it will go down as fast as any other page like this before.
hansolo@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
That’s the real benefit of the Fediverse. Even if one instance becomes known for hosting bots, we can defederate them. Each instance isn’t the population of the whole. Plus, we don’t need to be huge. There’s no benefit from it.