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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!

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someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨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

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- hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Sorry but you are naive.
    
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    hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just trying to be funny is all…
    
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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Exactly. Once we are a mainstream page to visit, it will go down as fast as any other page like this before.

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- hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - chaospatterns@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago
    My prediction is that manually reviewing user creation won’t scale to a high level and unless systems develop spam detection and reputation management similar to email then it’s not going to be limited to just one or two bad instances.
    
    Its trivial to create my own instance with a new domain and there’s no limitations against sending ActivityPub messages to a server. Unfortunately the simplest fix is for big instances to restrict what instances can communicate to it, but that causes centralization.
    
    Plus, we don’t need to be huge. There’s no benefit from it.
    
    The benefit is breadth and depth of communities. Reddit is great because if you are interested, there’s a bunch of people talking about it.
    
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