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  • How to keep bots and AI slop off lemmy?

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  • Hmm, I don't think the past is a good predictor of the future in this case.

    Maybe everyone likely to leave reddit for lemmy already has?

    With the influxes that have occurred in the past I think Lemmy has retained about a third of the MAUs contained in the spike. It's not nothing but I think it really underlines my point that Lemmy just isn't a viable alternative for a lot of reddit users. The network effect might be responsible for some of that, but not all.

    Also, as time goes by there are more corporate backed alternatives, like threads.

  • Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying Demanded In Wisconsin

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  • If I were a republican voter (I'm not), and the richest man in the world was buying votes for my preferred party, that would be a huge red flag because it's very obvious that my own interests are not well aligned with the richest man in the world.

  • How to keep bots and AI slop off lemmy?

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  • I respect your opinion, and can see some benefit to reddit's demise, but I think I'm too cynical and jaded to hold that belief.

    It looks like bluesky will be twitter's replacement, and it's not clear that bluesky will be better.

    If reddit implodes there's not really any likelihood that refugees will seek out lemmy.

    That said, at least lemmy is self hostable and federated. If the larger lemmy network did shit itself there would be smaller instances which are not federated with the majority of other servers so potentially they might be somewhat sheltered from bots and trolls.

  • How to keep bots and AI slop off lemmy?

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  • I don't think there's really a solution to this.

    Everyone is so fixated on getting more users but honestly I don't think that will make it a better experience.

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  • I don't think it's really helpful to look at other species.

    We are the only species that has sex for pleasure and uses contraceptives.

  • Atlantic journalist says Trump officials included him in war plans group chat

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  • It's really strange to read that transcript, a glimpse behind the veil so to say.

    I continually make the mistake of just assuming that there's intelligent sophisticated professionals behind the scenes propping up the idiots that we see front and center. There really isn't though. They're talking about global politics the way soccer mums would organise the season break up.

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  • What is a cot though?

  • 'Someone's butthurt': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Elon Musk's conspiracy theory

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  • Witty!

  • Do I really need a firewall for my server?

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  • Sure mate, keep trotting out the dumb swiss cheese analogy. Fine by me.

  • 'Someone's butthurt': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Elon Musk's conspiracy theory

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  • This article is just commentary about some tweets, with nothing additional.

    "This asshole 'meh meh meh', and then this other douche bag said 'yeah like meh', and then everyone's favorite lefty said 'butt'."

  • Do I really need a firewall for my server?

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  • I've heard this analogy before but I don't really care for it myself.

    It creates a mental image but isn't really analogous.

    In the case of a firewall on a server behind a NAT, ports forwarded through the NAT are holes through the first several slices.

  • Do I really need a firewall for my server?

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  • This. It's unnecessary but it's another layer.

  • Trump wants green card applicants legally in US to hand over social media profiles

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  • I guess they don't get their green card ?

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • 100% agreed.

    Every time I bring this up I get accused for gatekeeping or something.

    I'm not averse to new users coming to lemmy, that's great, no problem.

    I am resistant however to the idea that lemmy needs more users and that those users should come from reddit.

    Lemmy could do with more content, but a huge influx of users probably wouldn't be great.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • Email is a poor analogy because that's direct communication.

    As an aside, I work as a consultant and clients are getting scammed via email all the time. Email is responsible for a lot of heart ache and heavy losses.

    Regardless, you might be able to filter newsletters from bills in your email inbox but how do you filter out Russian disinformation farms from reddit?

    I think the idea that the internet might usher in a new information age is dead. Long dead. The internet solved the problem of access to information but now we just produce lots of bad information.

  • What are some lesser known (so no Walmart, Nestle, Amazon etc) shitty, ethically bankrupt, evil companies?

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  • The company that makes locks?

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • It all depends how you count saved and lost.

    If a govt program costs $1m to run but saves $1t in, say, mental health services, then you can just turn that off and save $1m right?

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • The thing is that the environment they thrive in just isn't sustainable.

    Food & water scarcity is going to really hurt in 20 years time.

    Trump doesn't care because he will be long dead. He just likes signing executive orders because it demonstrates how powerful he is.

    Musk knows that in troubled times the wealthy are held accountable. Billionaires will only be able to exist in a dystopian hellscape.

  • Kamala Harris Picked as Democrats’ Runaway 2028 Favorite in New Poll

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  • Here's an idea, maybe field a compelling candidate who can beat Trump?

    Crazy I know. I just don't know where it comes from sometimes.