Vote it down and move on? Help fund the development of a client that can deal with these things for you? Run your own instance where you can set your own blockloats?

You have agency. If something bothers you, take initiative instead of putting the responsibility.on others.

f AI gets to the point where it’s all pervasive (…) I’d honestly probably just stop participating socially in public internet spaces

I think you are missing what I am trying to say: there is a significant probability we already are at this point, and I don’t think we can beat this cat-and-mouse game. If you are serious about you mean, then the only reasonable course of action is to get out of the race entirely. If more people think like you, then the scale will tip even further in favor of the bots.

All of this to say, if we are so AI averse that the mere possibility of having AI around should be enough for all of us to drop this whole thing here and go back to connection only in the physical world. In a way, I wouldn’t be against the idea (maybe because I look at the internet as a source of utility and not to fulfill any emotional/social need) but on the other hand it would suck precisely because the internet can be quite useful as a tool, but its utility depends on having people around participating.

But what if the bots are writing posts and comments that make it hard to tell if they are human or not and the content is useful/beneficial to the community?

Survivorship bias. How do you guarantee that you don’t have a few dozen accounts that were set up by a human who then collected the credentials and setup an automated OpenClaw-like thing system?

The source code is open and they are highly dependent on funding from users and NLNet. Lemmy’s API is easy to replicate, so even if it’s not so easy to say “just fork it”, it would be pretty straightforward to have other projects implementing compatibility layers.

It doesn’t show because Lemmy has a stupid bug: it allows users and communities with the same name, so remote servers can not resolve either of them properly via webfinger.

These siloed platforms are created to favor the companies, not the users. The web is open. We don’t need one different browser to read long articles, write a trip blog, or to read movie reviews.

The app-iification of the web is something that we should be eschewing away, not trying to replicate it because this generation grew up not knowing any better.

Well, yes, but a bridge to Discord could be bringing traffic from order of magnitude more people than we currently have, and we do not have the infrastructure for it yet.

There is a fork called Incarnator which sees some occasional commits, but I think it’s more of a maintenance project that an attempt to continue bringing innovation. I believe that my ADAPT project has learned all the lessons from Takahe and will manage to bring more exciting features.

Short of pruning the data every once in a while (and losing all history) there is nothing that can be done to optimize it. It may work as a proof-of-concept or if you want to run on your own, but I really don’t think it is a good idea to promote it.

The latter. Any instance that has at least one user following the bridge will have to process and store every message coming from the bridge discord room.

Do you really think this is a good idea? Have you considered the amount of traffic will be generated and the amount of data storage this will require?

So every new conversation thread becomes a new post and every response becomes a comment?

I’d say this is impossible, by design. The main problem of corporate social media is that it is controlled by an oligopoly, and we can not get this much concentration of power in a system that is designed to be distributed.

The world does not revolve around you.

The problems of Corporate-owned social media affect all of society. We need an universal alternative that can be a real threat to them and alternatives like the Fediverse serving only the fringes do little more than act as a “managed opposition”.

I am building some solutions to these problems myself

No need to be coy. What problems are you tackling? Where is the code? I agree with pretty much of what you are saying, this is why I started working on Fediverser, how about joining forces instead of coming with yet-another plan all on your own?

How old is TikTok?

A lot of your problems woild go away if you stopped browsing by all…

I’ll be interested in following this thread. Some customers of mine are tired of Pixelfed thousand little papercuts and are considering dropping entirely. Even one photographer preferred to run their own Mastodon instance to avoid dealing with Pixelfed’s eternal beta status. I might spend some time this weekend figuring out how difficult it would to deploy Vernissage.

Best person to answer this is @mariusor@metalhead.club