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[–] 72 points 4 months ago (25 children)

This really depends on scale. If you look at all accounts and activity online, there probably is enough bots to outnumber people.

Personally, I don't interact with THE WHOLE INTERNET. I interact with people I know, and Lemmy, which feels more human than other platforms, so I'm confident that most of my online interactions are with actual humans.

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  • [+] [S] 23 points 4 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    By my estimate Lemmy is about 20 percent bots

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I hope.

    If a neutral post about the Israeli dictator gets 20 percent down votes I get the feeling theres something going on though, that's one of the tells

    Plus reuploads from other social media that seem fully automated for a while now

    I'm sure there is astroturfing but it just doesn't work that well on intelligent crowds, the succes rate will be lower so our spidy sense isn't tingly enough. But there's tingling allright.

    Isn't mass paranoia through induced mass psychosis fun? Hard to keep your pants clean walking through muddy streets

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I like the way you capitalised THE WHOLE INTERNET

    I'm not having a go at you. Just make me chuckle like it's like the way an old person would refer to the "WHOLE INTERNET".

    Again just to be clear not having a go at you or suggesting anything about your age. It just made me laugh.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    My theory (very bad) is that the fediverse is the prelude of an internet so decentralized it will stop being useful to corporations.

    The “upper web” will be corporate, ads, marketing and paid services. The “lower web” will be a series of semi connected networks that will loosely operate as a whole.

    Maybe in 10~20 years, a physical new internet will be born, completely independent from the current one and untouched by companies.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    A new internet isn't even needed, just a new protocol.

    Corpos aren't on Gopher or Gemini, for instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    We don't even need a new protocol. HTTP/1.1 is perfectly fine! I wish people would stop trying to throw it out.

    -- Frost

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Beyond the technical aspect, I don't see how this is feasible. There are few sites out there supporting just 1.1, and the population using HTTP won't likely create more. While those using alternatives continue to.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Eh? Doesn't pretty much everything support HTTP 1.1 still? It's not like it's dead.

    And growing a community of HTTP 1.1 website people certainly isn't any harder than growing a community of alt-protocol website people. Even if it were an alt-protocol nothing normal supports anymore (which it isn't, thankfully).

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    False I'm a bot. You're interacting with me!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I feel that for the past two weeks the bot number surged here... Been here for 2 years but lately the opinions people are upvoting in some threads seem like prime rage bait

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I know exactly what you mean. I've noticed the same "shift in quality" but I honestly think they are real, live, barely intelligent people.

    I can't help but think the recent surge in "How do you get past a Reddit ban?" posts is related.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    It's already been confirmed there's way more bots than people.

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