Everything on here is awesome right now, it feels like an online forum from the 2000s, everyone is friendly, optimistic, it feels like the start to something big.
Well, as we all know, AI has gotten very smart to the point captcha’s are useless, and it can engage in social forums disguised as a human.
With Reddit turning into propaganda central anda greedy CEO that has the motive to sell Reddit data to AI farms, I worry that the AI will be able to be prompted to target websites such as the websites in the fediverse.
Right now it sounds like paranoia, but I think we are closer to this reality than we may know.
Reddit has gotten nuked, so we built a new community, everyone is pleasantly surprised by the change of vibe around here, the over all friendlyness, and the nostalgia of old forums.
Could this be the calm before the storm?
How will the fediverse protect its self from these hypothetical bot armies?
Do you think Reddit/big companies will make attacks on the fediverse?
Do you think clickbait posts will start popping up in pursuit of ad revenue?
What are your thoughts and insights on this new “internet 2.0”?
I used facebook when it came out because it was a novelty (I’d say revolution but that’s probably a too strong word for it) and everyone was curious about it, but I honestly never saw it as a platform to facilitate discourse, to me it always looked like a showcase box pushing on the self-centered nature of most human beings.
Reddit was the perfect discussion platform to me and I loved it to pieces, I agree when you say it holds the largest exchange of ideas, someone compared it to the Library of Alexandria, it’s fitting IMO, both in the amount of knowledge it contains and the end it’s meeting unfortunately.*
Disengaging from it can indeed be a conflict, easy on one side because I believe most people don’t tolerate being treated like s*hit as they did - especially considering that reddit without users is worth nothing - a bit difficult from the other side because it’s objectively difficult to recreate the amount of useful content it has, but I believe we’re on the right track here.
You made me chuckle :D In a good way tho, I’m on about the same more or less :D
Edit: *to clarify what I mean: reddit as a platform won’t burn at all, but the quality content will, content creators and power users are always a minority on every platform but they’re also the first ones to leave when things go down the drain (Digg is repeating itself).