They’re certainly easier to avoid.
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answersplease77@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Even without any karma system, interacting with the users here is a breath of fresh air. Lemmy has the least shills and bots compared to the poison in most other platforms. It’s currently Lemmy’s best asset and where it stands out from all existing social media imo, and I hope it remains this way.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 5 days ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Because it’s not popular yet. Wait until it becomes so and the inevitable enshittification happens.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Enshittification isn’t what happens when something becomes popular, it’s what happens to disruptive tech and commodities that get increasingly fine-tuned for profit after competition inevitably floods in. It’s a product of monetization.
Lemmy is FOSS so that won’t happen, plus you can splinter off into your own walled garden instance like Beehaw if you want.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
You make it sound like monetization can’t happen on a FOSS platform. Bots are a form of monetization, it’s just not by the people who created and control the platform.
As it gets popular, bots will come for the purpose of creating an audience and monetizing them.
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 4 days ago
That’s true, but it’s just not enshittification. It’s a different word.
sukhmel@programming.dev 5 days ago
Ey used the wrong word, but this in fact is correct. Once lemmy gets popular, bot farms will definitely will siege it, and the amount of “bots and shills” will rise
Distant_Foreground@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Maybe “dickheadification” instead?
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Enshittification also happens because of government propaganda, like the authoritarian propaganda Lemmy.ml spreads for the CCP.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Aee you suggesting people on Lemmy.ml are paid by the Chinese government to spread propagands?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s a single instance, they can be blocked and avoided. The FOSS community is way more resiliant to enshittification.