The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?
Doesn’t solve astroturfing via bots, but at least there isn’t centralized manipulation.
It does help with it though
For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?
lemmy’s got it figured out and i think it’s by accident; just stay away from the large instances.
it’s going to be interesting to see how quickly mastadon gets swallowed up by the profit motive.