The sequel is way funnier than this post, the people over at hackernews really take themselves too seriously lmao.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?
No wonder I am not seeing shit, how do I see what's blocked?
Move to another instance?
Any sites that give me a list of what an instance has blocked or not blocked? To pick an instance
Seems to suggest there are only 9 defederated from Aussie.zone out of 1600?
There are also some instances with hidden blocklists. You can check them there as well.
Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?
I'm not entirely sure we're missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.
I'm not entirely sure we're missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.
....... obviously porn....you're missing the porn
Ah, the mods are puritanical. That explains it.
Coming up, in 2030: Anti bot verification by vtuber posting.
Now this will require a vtuber account.
Or how about the new captcha trend: Craft a simple barn in Arbonautica™ (game download available in Steam). You have 5 minutes.
Can't just leave us hanging with that ending!
This is largely the problem with most social media, and generative AI has made this problem worse just like it has made other pretty terrible facets of human interactions worse.
Anyone who was paying attention on reddit the last couple years (even pre-pandemic) could see that bots were taking over. The main difference (love mods or hate them) was that mods who's subreddits didn't rely on bot content to stay active were moderating the bot problem as best they could.
Now, most of those mods aren't mods anymore and the vast majority only really want the engagement anyway so of course they'll let bots basically take over.
Reddit the corp never cared about keeping bots off the platform and they care even less now. Bot engagement counts. Bot views of ads count. Removing bots actively hurts their bottom line in the short term so of course they aren't going to do anything with that.
The actual human users on Reddit don't care because they're there to consume. It doesn't matter to them if the posts they engage with are made by bots or not.
they have been actively culling human users for months now, leaving mostly bots.
Reddit is full of Karma farmers.
I still use Reddit for the funny videos and nieche communities I don't get on Lemmy. But I have to constantly block accounts because they are blatantly farming. Super annoying.
I usually block every account that's reposting and has more than 100k Karma.
This was great, read all of his posts and subscribed. Cheers for sharing!
I didn't like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it's as if driving one's own car is the main tenet of freedom.
I read it more as just one of many subtle erosion of freedoms that could lead to a dystopian society.
Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.
This blog isn't written by a bot right? Its literally a blog called "post human posting"...