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It's that there's no incentive to have 80 million bots manipulate everything. Our user base is too small, and likely too jaded about fake internet points to be a target for scammers, ai slop bots, or advertisers.
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... If there are people to mislead with misinformation, or people with money to buy things, there will be incentive. I learned about this in this great book called
Lemmy is basically 30 or 40 Linux meme platforms begging for donations, full of people bitching about AI and politics, and recycling old reddit shitposts. I love it. I am home here. I love you all.
But, we aren't running communities with millions of people trading crypto and stonks. There's instances that are full on socialists. A pig butchering scam here would founder so badly they would banish anyone foolish enough to try it to redemtuon by spamming the comment sections of cooking blog posts before being summarily executed.
We have herd immunity.
Sorry but you are naive. That's really all I can say about your view.
Just trying to be funny is all...
Exactly. Once we are a mainstream page to visit, it will go down as fast as any other page like this before.
That's the real benefit of the Fediverse. Even if one instance becomes known for hosting bots, we can defederate them. Each instance isn't the population of the whole. Plus, we don't need to be huge. There's no benefit from it.