Comment on Please Let the Internet Die | Online spaces are captured by oligarchs and saturated with slop—and they’re exacerbating humanity’s worst impulses. It’s time to start over.

wings@lemmy.rimfaxe.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’ve brought the slop here too, comrade.

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  • Naich@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s easier to block it here, and it doesn’t get forced down your throat in the first place. If Elon Twatface came on here, everyone could ignore him and he’d go away. He couldn’t buy it and force his bullshit on us either.

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    • Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are 100% communities on lemmy ran by malicious individuals pushing shit that benefits elon musk. How are you so sure he hasn’t already released his bot army on lemmy?

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      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s expected. The difference is the Fediverse gives the users the flexibility to employ our own strategies for dealing with it. When a bunch of money is clearly being spent astroturfing the tiktok/ig/reddit algorithms, you can’t do anything about it. But here, instances can decide to defederate from other instances that aren’t properly moderating such content. Yeah, Elon can make his own instance, he can even spend money creating bots on other instances, but the Fediverse gives us the tools to cull them.

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    "They" being people. It might be a feature of just having enough people in a group.

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  • Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes but by it’s very nature, the Fediverse can resist

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    • tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s work. I’m glad that other people can take that on.

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      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We all lift what others can’t. Together, we can uplift civilization itself. I hope. 🥰

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