A well backed as usual peice by Benn Jordan on the basics of how misinformation farms work according to their own internal documentation, the goal of creating a post truth world, and why a sizable percentage of twitter users start talking about OpenAi’s terms of service every time they update it.

  • Sonori@beehaw.orgOP
    29·
    1 day ago

    Hopefully, but I worry no small part of it at the moment is just that we’re too small to be worth the bother. If the fediverse grows big enough to matter, well I worry about what dedicated teams of people working a full time job could do. One or two people can easily run a few dozen active accounts, which in turn could easily dominate conversation on an instance.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Hmm… That could be an issue, you’re right.

      If it does get that bad, we’d gave to act more defensively by only federating with instances that have reviewed sign-ups and have received an endorsement on fediseer.

      That would result in a more isolated experience, but if that’s the only way to combat it, then we’ll have to shift with the needs of the moment to keep it mostly humans we’re interacting with, and to make the moderation workload manageable.

      • DennisEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        It has started already and its coming from lemmy.ml, you can check how news-related posts align with this admin’s (davel) profile, if you post anything contrary to it, you’ll notice a lot more downvote than news-related communities outside lemmy.ml

        Here’s some sample of what he spreads:

        https://midwest.social/post/19339660/13589968 Under replies

        His profile is full of Chinese and Russian propaganda