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Can anyone explain what the point is of creating an instance and filling it with bots? Seems like it just costs money and time but with no benefit? Is it for a future spam campaign?
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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Is it for a future spam campaign?
Yes.
Will there be a point when the number of new users will need to be controlled?
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Let's goooooooooo
While this is good, I can't help but feel that the branding of the decentralised social media ecosystem is hurting the growth a little bit. The -verse suffix, imo, is just too tainted from all the cryptobro metaverse scams and really makes this seem like some crypto scam as opposed to an alternative to the current crumbling social media platforms.
Regardless, I hope this ecosystem does take off, as it does seem useful and interesting.
You're really denouncing an entire decentralized open source eco system cause you don't like that verse is a suffix that can be used for multiple things?
Jfc.
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I've tried Lemmy a bit last night. I know Lemmy threads can be searched and browsed here and I'm not sure it matter, but if it does I hope it's Kbin that wins the mass adoption war. I'm finding the Kbin UI experience more enjoyable. I also appreciate the way it combines a microblog tweet like feature with reddit type usage into the same platform.
What's "here?" I'm viewing your comment using Jerboa logged into @lemmy.world, LOL.
That said, I ought to try out kbin at some point.
From what i've heard it doesn't matter who wins. Kbin can interact with posts on lemmy and lemmy can interact with posts on kbin.
Yes but kbin at the moment is more user friendly so if someone from reddit who is not tech savvy tries to migrate to fediverse, kbin would be a much more convincing option, especially since no one really realize there other instances of kbin much like lemmy and everybody just goes to kbin.social. So no choice paralysis about which instance to join which I reckon is the big part of the problem of transitioning from reddit.
Unfortunately, some of those users are bringing the worst of Reddit with them. Their is an explosion of low value cutesy comments.
*There
Just like the old Digg migration days. Soon you will forget about those Diggers and accept them as your own.
With all the bots, there's still an explosion of user activity. Each time the bots are mentioned, you can also look up by instance and track the user activity, which has a growth trendline that looks very similar to all the other metrics that are gaining.
Yeah, fucking migrants. Only bringing problems.
(/s, just to be sure)