Submitted 3 weeks ago by 0101100101@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
With instances falling, are they being attacked with AI slop to overpower the admins/mods and to start class wars on the instances to lower the user experience?
If so, who would benefit from doing so? Who would have the financial strength to be able to do such a thing? How can they be stopped?
lemmy isnt large enough to be a threat to reddit, and most people on reddit dont know lemmy instances exists. reddit still an immense amount of communities that arnt found on lemmy.
I wouldn’t be too surprised if reddit was doing some action to keep Lemmy down, but I don’t think lemm.ee shut down from any outside force attacking them, I think it was far more mundane.
A few things probably contributed:
MrKaplan of Lemmy.world mentioned that .world is able to handle their size effectively due to ensuring they have enough active mods to handle their communities so there’s less load for the admins, perhaps lemm.ee did not.
This is another factor that likely increased their drama and report burden, as some instances are known to have more toxic users than others, making defederation a powerful tool to make things manageable and quiet that report notification.
Combined with a lack of fresh admins to rotate out the ones getting burned out, and you’ve got a potent recipe to make the whole thing super un-fun and feel like an unappreciated slog of a job.
we know reddit works with google to make them appear on the searches most of the time.
No, there would be no benefit for doing so. There are subreddits that see more people come and go in an hour than the entirety of lemmy sees in a month.
People really have become a bit paranoid about bots. It’s sad what AI has done to assumptions.
I’m not sure how to articulate it, really.
No, they are not.
No.
What AI slop? There is a surprising lack of spam on Lemmy, if somebody wanted to attack it you’d see a spamwave with hundreds of posts per minute. It happened once when we got spammed by a chinese group but never again.
We can tell the difference between AI slop and people. That’s why it’s called slop. I’ve seen a number of folks get called out just for using an AI to edit their post (and letting it rewrite it wholesale instead of retaining their own voice).
This is an Occam’s Razor scenario: the simplest explanation is that people are assholes and a lot of work to moderate, and not every server is going to be able to make it. But that’s why federation is a good thing. It’ll be interesting to see if everyone migrates and remains on the fediverse or if the community shrinks.
Dude, go out for a walk. Enjoy the sun, the wind, the birds and the grass. You are overthinking things that do not exist.
I believed they were doing such things against budding competitors long before the LLM era. My test is simple. Replace it with China. Would the replies be the opposite of what you’ve recieved so far? The answer is yes. Absolutely people would be frothing at the mouth.
Western tech bros are just as paranoid, they copy off others, they steal ideas. When we do it it’s called “innovation”.
they don’t have to, to be honest, your mod team itself is very bad, they hand out bans for just having an oppinion that is not far left, it’s the either you are with us or against us attitude that i don’t like
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I think you vastly overestimate the cost of doing such a thing, a lot of nerds could afford to inundate us with AI slop, not just reddit.
At the same time, I think you’re also vastly underestimating the amount of complete jerkoffs on the internet and how much spare time they have to be jerkoffs.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If there is profit to be made off slop some jerk will direct it this way. There’s no need for reddit to bother.