The dead internet isn't a theory on Reddit. It's a reality there. Almost all traffic is 

OG “fake it till you make it” business.

Feels like 99% of "social" network startups. The dead Internet theory started before the LLM craze.

Exactly this. The bots are coming from inside the house.

How can you tell? Not attacking, just curious. I never could tell, well maybe if usernames are all oddly similarly patterned, and even than, I can't be sure it's not some app/program that hands out those ids when you register in it, as people sometimes can be too lazy to come up with a meaningful username. Short comments can also be made by dumb humans, long posts can be written by modern Artificial Idiot. 20 years ago, I could tell spam post, cause they all were literally either identical to each other, or at least totally ignored context and never responded to questions. Now I am not sure at all. Definitely some people are less eloquent than AI.

spez is a frigging billionaire. What other principle than making money could possibly have guided him to this point?

Nah, other users won’t know who you are.

Well, at least until the database inevitably leaks

https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-could-soon-require-face-id-to-prove-youre-not-a-bot

Huffman indicated the platform may use decentralized third-party information providers to verify users’ personal details.

“Part of the promise to users is we don’t want to know your name," he told the hosts. "But we want to know that you're a person.”

Sure, "we don't want to know your name, we just have to know it or have to have another party that we have access to/a deal with know it"

to your house if you joke about Israel.

Or to any government that pays a lot.

You're probably right and this is the first time I've felt kind of glad for the "speed bump" that picking a server on the fediverse has become. We'll get another influx before too long; maybe a "you need to be this clever to ride the ride" checkpoint isn't such a bad thing.

Selecting a server wasn't an issue for me. The RIF app told me to go to .world and I quickly decided it was the right instance for me to start.

I moreso had to adjust to the slower pace and less engagement on Lemmy compared to reddit, the lack of niche communities, my favorite subs not having a perfect equivalent here.

I was super pissed off with reddit and am still salty, so my anger committed me to making the commitment to Lemmy. I was addicted to reddit and they took away the app I was using for over 10 years. I wasn't ready for the breakup and was scorned. I was highly motivated to make Lemmy work for me.

Users need that level of anger and outrage to motivate them.

Oh no, how am I going to pick a server?! That’s even harder than choosing a shirt to put on!

Most likely, they will. They are not elikely to infect larger instances. Smaller instances will spot them and ban them, I hope.

This is the real question here. Especially with advanced AI, it might be difficult to spot bot accounts.

Not nearly as much financial incentive for the admins to look the other way

This is basically all I use for now. Lemmy doesn't have the infrastructure for every TV episode and movie I watch.

Centralisation of power is in the first place why we moved away from Reddit. Fuck that.

You can find your own fitness sidelemmy. There are actually a few I found.

I’d be bold enough to say this decision is absolutely on par with their other brain dead decisions.

Facebook tried to make me take a video of myself moving my head around making different facial expressions to prove I was a person. I was like... not even my bank requires that. This was after making a comment that was Trump-negging. So I cancelled it.

Discord has a similar system in place, people were defeating it with the Photo mode in Death Standing lmao

I've been on reddit for 15 years (on and off again, deleting my accounts and then re-signing up later).

I'm looking forward to a fresh start here.

This

Thank you! I’ve had the pleasure to notice Lemmy (or this particular instance) is more of an open thinker space, and that’s great to see. It really reminds me of the Internet before the corpos got their hands to squeeze every penny out of the average netizen.