Welcome again to everybody. Make yourselves at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread!
P.S. Update on those stability improvements/enhancements I mentioned in my previous weekly thread: they’re finished. The matrix server uptime is now better. Suspiciously better, some might say. Anyway, enjoy the reliability >:3
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Feeling kinda sad that I hate pretty much the whole internet but lemmy as of lately. Sometimes I even fear this website will get swarmed by reactionaries and destroyed from within like it happened with leftypol.
Dead internet theory isn’t just a theory it is a reality. Cloudfare says 57% of all internet requests are from bots. israel is dumping 730 million american dollars into astroturfing this year and who knows how much the Fossil Fuel Industry, the cia and us Millitary industrial complex, the EU’s anti russia slop, and every other imperialist project out there, must be pumping into the same sort of PR campaigns.
These campaigns may eventually start hammering away at lemmy but I think overall the moderation and community structure will make it far harder to astroturf successfully.
I don’t think that’s gonna happen so easily given that Lemmygrad used to be swarmed by libs from other instances (looking at old posts). We have some good admins.
But yeah, the internet is pretty consolidated on the hands of the capitalists now.