• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You realize that the only reason Lemmy hasn’t become so enshitified is because the user base is too small for the corpos to seriously target it yet. The day Lemmy has more than a million users the army of bots will not be too far behind.

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      9 hours ago

      It’s not enshittification, but there’s a bunch of crappy rss bots on lemmy reposting low quality content pulled from various feeds. I feel like they’ve been abandoned and left to run creating internet litter around this site. I’ve started blocking them because I’m not against bots as a concept, but poorly written or with bad sources they can get pretty tiring. One of the things I appreciate about diggs $5 account fee is that it’d hopefully limit the amount of trolls/spam on the site.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      At least they’ll never find a complicit management. Still it doesn’t matter, I’m going to enjoy this space while it’s nice :)

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      2 days ago

      The cool thing is that instances can decide on their own if they want to tolerate that or not

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      2 days ago

      Idk man, back in November the place was pretty enshitified. Not sure if it was just left wing nut jobs but anybody with a political position even close to center or right got about 100 downvotes and got called a Russian troll or worse.

      Since then it’s been a lot better though.