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Fediverse enshittification
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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I agree, it's already happening. The Media Bias Fact Checker bot is another example. Nobody I've interacted with wants it, it is functionally useless and inaccurate, and appears to be a cash grab (though we can't know for sure, because the mods refuse to openly discuss it with users). We live in a capitalist society, so even platforms like Lemmy are subject to its pressures, and require active pushback from users to prevent profits from taking precedence over user satisfaction on larger instances.
To be fair, that seems to be more of a Lemmy.world problem, which itself is one of the worst overall instances.
Have you considered moving to similar communities without the bot?
I know I usually recommend !globalnews@lemmy.zip compared to the LW world news
I just subbed, thanks. This is kind of my fundamental challenge with this platform, though. I don’t want to miss anything on the subjects I’m interested in, so I sub to every instances’ version of the same community. I’m probably doing it wrong, but if I sub to just one small sub-community because I like the mods, or the lack of bots, I feel like I’d be missing a lot of content.
Happy to help!