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With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it's scary. And so I'd like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.

I personally hate it when I'm stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you're reading this, the likely chance is you're the same.

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn't of enough substance to be worth anyone's time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won't have to visit walled gardens so often.

Thank you :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If we can ensure that all bots are always identifiable as such, i.e. that none of them are successfully passing themselves off as people, then this problem is mitigated quite a lot. In theory that's feasible. We're hardly even trying right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How'd you tell if you're chatting to a bot?

Ai a pretty convincing now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

Regulation, of course. Unlabeled bot on your platform? $100,000 fine. We're not completely helpless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

It's this the law or something you'd hope would happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

How would they police it?

How would anyone know who's a bot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

Prove it or you get a fine. Where the political will is there, this is all easy-peasy.