Are there any bots that make shitty comments or something like that? And is there anything lemmy would do against bots? I don’t like dead internet theory and hope this place is free
Are there any bots that make shitty comments or something like that? And is there anything lemmy would do against bots? I don’t like dead internet theory and hope this place is free
Yeah, there are even upvoting/downvoting bots.
Lemmy isnt a mainstream place so probably its not affected as much as the huge platforms (I doubt anyone cares about what Lemmy users think about the world).
Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.
I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).
Im not sure we dont notice them. How do we know what upvotes certain posts to the front page? Is it really organic? Maybe, maybe not… :)
Actually I was thinking about this the other day. All the meme posts, are they created by humans or Ai?
There are tons of them with different jokes and messages and agendas. I certainly dont think its all people sitting and creating those…
Wouldn’t it make it more targeted
How do you figure? I was just thinking that with a minimal user base, why bother influencing it. Even though it would be easier to influence it, true.
Because you’re thinking about it wrong. With a bigger population it’ll cost more to influence them. If you ever watched how they did it in 2016, they started small, always. The first sub Reddit’s to see lots of opinion shifts where small subs like local interest before they moved on to the larger metropolitan ones. If you’re paying to influence people then you need a chain of initiation to start. This makes Lemmy a much greater target than Reddit. Look at opinions on AI. Lemmy was full on sharing multiple daily headlines like “AI is coming for your daughter’s” while Reddit thought it was just a neat tool.
The goal is 10%
You need to create enough bots to maintain 10% of the content is favoring your view. If you can sustain that then opinions begin to shift for the entire group. People will start to join and create their own. That 10% is much easier to achieve in smaller places. Lemmy is perfect for it
Interesting. I havent followed reddit so I dont know, but sure, I can see how that could have happened.