Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

The Reddit space is just a bunch of pictures of people’s home Labs it’s not really a self-hosted community at all.

It’s not interesting to explore and read like this one is.

It’s suffered from a common phenomena of any community that grows in popularity where it caters to the lowest common denominator and loses its niche.

Google should be subject to antitrust legislation regardless.

Their position as a monopoly is what enables this.

This is more of a symptom the cause is the monopolization of the internet largely by Google

The grand majority of Mozilla’s spending is for engineers.

They use chromium.

Firefox does not.

The grand majority of software engineering effort goes into the browser development that they never have to work on for the most part.

This seems like classic corporate backtracking when their customers spot a terrible, deliberate decision.

I didn’t think that’s the case here

However, would you rather that the feedback of users NOT change behavior? I’m not entirely sure what your end game is here, you WANT corporations to ignore and not take action on feedback?

How can they block this for everyone?

Seriously. We don’t need bot bullshit on Lemmy.

This is the start of the slide for Reddit is just going to be worse here because there are fewer controls to actually detect and do something about bots.

This… This is the shit tower.

It’s made up of fools who follow fools, and soon to be fools who follow AI ran by people with an agenda.

Gotcha so you actually stated your previous question in bad faith as you had no interest in the answer to begin with.

Recurring!

You can’t really tell.

It’s also a very very VERY small platform compared to other social media platforms like Reddit. (I had another comment where I calculated this but it’s ridiculously small)

It is unlikely that it would see anywhere near the same level of dedicated bot activity due to the low return on invested effort.

This is a problem that will become greater once the value of astroturfing and shifting opinion on Lemmy is high enough.

You’re missing the big impact here which is that bots can shift public opinion in mass which affects you directly.

Gone are the days where individuals have their own opinions instead today opinions are just osmosised through social media.

And if social media is essentially just a message bought by whoever can pay for the biggest bot farm, then anyone who thinks for themselves and wants to push back immediately becomes the enemy of everyone else.

This is not a future that you want.

Mhm, I love dismissive “Look, it already works, and there’s nothing to improve” comments.

Lemmy lacks significant capabilities to effectively handle the bots from 10+ years ago. Nevermind bots today.

The controls which are implemented are implemented based off of “classic” bot concerns from nearly a decade ago. And even then, they’re shallow, and only “kind of” effective. They wouldn’t be considered effective for a social media platform in 2014, they definitely are not anywhere near capability today.

Lemmy has no capability to handle non-advanced bots from yesteryear.

It’s most definitely not capable of handing bots today and is absolutely unprepared for handling bots tomorrow.

The fediverse is honestly just pending the necessary popularity in order to be turned into bot slop with no controls.

Give it time and the mega corps will do it for you.

PR nightmares will keep significant exploit fixes coming. Microsoft isn’t that stupid.

They have the concept of a antitrust breakup.

I didn’t really mention immich directly here.

This is a problem which is endemic to casual software development like many FOSS projects. It’s a reality of how free software tends to be built in general vs commercial software.