Unfortunately the bot problem is coming to Lemmy.

Bots posting content is already a thing here, and then taking up front page space is already a thing.

Lemmy is speed running “How to lose your sense of community”.

This… This is the shit tower.

It’s made up of fools who follow fools, and soon to be fools who follow AI ran by people with an agenda.

Naw, they’ll make it yaml

And the only way to edit it will be in an on-phone editor that won’t use a mono spaced font.

Gotcha so you actually stated your previous question in bad faith as you had no interest in the answer to begin with.

Recurring!

You can’t really tell.

It’s also a very very VERY small platform compared to other social media platforms like Reddit. (I had another comment where I calculated this but it’s ridiculously small)

It is unlikely that it would see anywhere near the same level of dedicated bot activity due to the low return on invested effort.

This is a problem that will become greater once the value of astroturfing and shifting opinion on Lemmy is high enough.

You’re missing the big impact here which is that bots can shift public opinion in mass which affects you directly.

Gone are the days where individuals have their own opinions instead today opinions are just osmosised through social media.

And if social media is essentially just a message bought by whoever can pay for the biggest bot farm, then anyone who thinks for themselves and wants to push back immediately becomes the enemy of everyone else.

This is not a future that you want.

Mhm, I love dismissive “Look, it already works, and there’s nothing to improve” comments.

Lemmy lacks significant capabilities to effectively handle the bots from 10+ years ago. Nevermind bots today.

The controls which are implemented are implemented based off of “classic” bot concerns from nearly a decade ago. And even then, they’re shallow, and only “kind of” effective. They wouldn’t be considered effective for a social media platform in 2014, they definitely are not anywhere near capability today.

Lemmy has no capability to handle non-advanced bots from yesteryear.

It’s most definitely not capable of handing bots today and is absolutely unprepared for handling bots tomorrow.

The fediverse is honestly just pending the necessary popularity in order to be turned into bot slop with no controls.

Give it time and the mega corps will do it for you.

PR nightmares will keep significant exploit fixes coming. Microsoft isn’t that stupid.

Cities for example have their own microclimate partially because of the change in albedo.

You’re literally talking about something that is well known well documented and well understood and has been for decades.

If you change the albedo of a surface that surface changes it’s absorption of solar radiation. That surface will be warmer or cooler in the Sun. As a fundamental concept (ignoring more exotic materials and concepts). This means that that surface contributes or detracts from the climate in various ways.

I don’t know what’s so difficult about this :/

If you cover the entire country of Australia with black tiles do you really expect that there would be absolutely no change or difference than if you cover the entire country of Australia with white tiles?

They are 55th on the list for obesity rates.

It’s a worldwide epidemic unfortunately.

For reference:

• U.S. is 10th with 41%
• Australia is 36th with 32%

I live in a country with a propensity for dark cement tiles, i really doubt panels are causing an uptick in heat

Of course they are (having an effect) why wouldn’t they?

Any change in albedo modifies how much radiation is absorbed and emitted and the wavelengths it’s emitted at.

Sure one tile doesn’t do much but it does do something by a measurable degree. Even if tiny, it’s still quantifiable.

This is exactly why we need ranked choice voting.

Winner takes all essentially demoralizes and alienates voters and drives people who agree with each other to fight because they’re trapped in a broken system.

So instead of fighting the system, it’s easier to just blame other people and alienate more of them against your cause, shooting yourself in the foot with ignorance. It’s kind of disgusting.

Lol, you are on the Projection part of GOP I see.

Yep, and even worse. Lemmy has absolutely NO controls for quality and minimal moderation tools or capabilities. It’s in a much worse position than Reddit.

If it’s not already happening (And I think it is), it will.

They have the concept of a antitrust breakup.

And like all android updates, it’s guaranteed to be worse than it was.

Everything’s getting shittier.

“I refuse to accept progress if it’s not perfect progress”

Is what you’re effectively stating here.

Cmon, really? I have this argument with my toddler when he asks for something like a rip off a loaf of bread. He wants the whole loaf, he can’t have the whole load, so he gets a choice: The piece you can have, or nothing.

So. Would you rather have this progress, or nothing? That’s your choice, and right now it sounds a whole lot like you would rather have no progress?