cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/ask/p/1088403/what-happens-when-reddit-actually-dies-start-being-90-bots
Right now there is high bot activity on Reddit, but the high amount of users make it tolerable to some extent.
But one thing that I don’t see anyone talk about is what happens when bots to humans ratio become so high(>70%)? Like what if you checked Reddit only to see reposts and propaganda?
Following news websites does not have interactivity and more importantly, sharing events as it happens is something that is rare to get outside Reddit aed TikTok If I am being very honest.
I even stopped seeing more new memes outside meta platforms.
Is there is a forum/app for citzen journalism? Any crowdsourced tech tips forum exist?
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Lots of useful posts will be gone. Unironicly
I think people would just either live among them or like move to other websites like this one ^^
It’s a circle jerk. Bots get paid by companies to shill, ads from companies provide revenue to companies.
Wait, this sounds awfully familiar… Oh yeah! The money changing hands between NVIDIA and Open AI xD
This is the new economy folks. Insurance, pharma and hospital networks do the same damn thing. Money literally doesn’t mean anything anymore.
Same thing that happened to Digg. It slowly fades away until it shuts down. Then maybe in 20 years, they try to revive it with some idiotic fad gimmick which also fails.
Why the fuck should anyone care?
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BerniesSpez’s.it won’t.
fb/instagram are already there and nobody stopped using them in large numbers.
Bots may be producing content, but they aren’t consuming it to that volume. If they are, it just means that ad per view revenue drops.
They’ll just train the bots on the fediverse!
The fediverse is no better. Well it is, but only because most of the bots haven’t discovered it yet. If/when the fediverse takes off the bots will be right there.
I think you’ll find most instance owners unwilling to pay for bot armies to swarm their instances.
fair. Though that seems like it will shutdown the fediverse. Either because you can only connect if you personally know someone to get you an account (that is chain of trust - because we have proven to validate our users we will federate), or because their are no instances.
We’ve made it a decade, I think you’ll find us more resilient than you expect.
and we shall smite them all with our superior moder…ating… too…ls…
oh.
Then the people who want to own and strangle things will shift their focus to other centralized chokepoints like Bluesky and Lemmy.World.
Nothing of value will be lost.
