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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 31 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.

I wonder how long till the post gets removed.

Edit: would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

they got me with the propoganda forsure, it seemed complicated was actually super simple, every comment will act like its so hard to swap over or signup when once you do look it up you immediately see why its better at its core

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 49 minutes ago

I never played WoW or anything like that, but aren't there several WoW servers and you have to decide which one to be on when you start the game? People managed that.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 24 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Aside from what Blaze mentioned, that's also not really the kind of publicity that we want. Better to just respond to individual users and encourage them to try Lemmy out.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We should really avoid antromorphizing non-humans. Call them bots, like most of them probably are.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

In some spaces, that term is becoming really dehumanizing. People use “bot” to label anything they disagree with.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but I was being literal. A non-negligible number of those comments are likely being automated.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm quite certain that reddit has millions of bot accounts that repost old content and leverage AI to make human sounding comments. They serve two purposes, to simulate activity and interaction, and to disrupt discussions that reddit doesn't approve of, such as those about Lemmy or certain political issues.

Why wouldn't they? It's a very simple decision for them, they need to protect their money and the shareholders money, and they'll do whatever they have to in order to accomplish that objective.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

would it be immoral for me to mass bot the thread with AI powered pro fediverse propaganda?

You can try, but you'll probably get flagged

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

U would be surprised what u can do with an account list a proxy list and a tor connection.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

why not, ik a lot of ppl are upset with reddit rnow and they prob think lemmy isnt ready, I thought it was bad because of old preconceptions and I never heard about it on reddit, only after I got banned from reddit did I even see that lemmy still existed, had a userbase, and was running without issues now

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I really do hope the fediverse takes off, its what I thought the internet would be like when I first got an email and used it as a kid, its wild to me that it's even possible, an actual interconnected network

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They also make you think lemmy is like voat or other right wing stuff when the user base here is more like reddit when it was good, far less controversial

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The worst part of browsing reddit imo, you cant block a subreddit, you downvote posts, it shows up more, no way to hide it from any feed, my subscribed feed showed me tons of subs not relevant to me that I wasn't subbed to after they made the api changes and got rid of the other apps. It felt like they wanted me to open the app and be upset about something everyday when I was just trying to look at what I was subscribed to. (3d, animation, edm, etc. not subbed to any of the main subs, would still see them)

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago