A Request to the Fediverse Community

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

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

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It's a suggested solution

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How would they police it?

How would anyone know who's a bot?

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

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Prove what? That they're bots, you mean companies would have to just admit it?

If there were a fine I think it would put some people off, or they would just try harder to hide it.

The whole point is that bots are hard to discover. If companies don't want to state that they use bots, I don't know how they will know who is using bots.

It seems like you're just counting on people being honest or some how finding out. And I don't know how they will find out or even if they can unless someone in the company whistle blows

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In that case let's just give up because obviously it will all be far too hard.

You are underestimating the resources that big companies already devote to complying with regulations and avoiding fines. To stipulate that every non-human voice on a social platform must be labeled as such or else, right now, that regulation does not even exist. It's an obvious place to start and I am not the first person to say this.

Anyway, the conversation has moved on here, nobody else is listening, that's enough from me. Good night.

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That's the point. It will be secret companies trying to persuade the general population.

I'm different companies, maybe out of jurisdiction.

I just don't know i think we've crossed the Rubicon. It's out the box now.

Maybe with worldcoin, we can scan retina's and provide proof of humanity.

Otherwise. I think it's pretty much really hard to control. And people/companies will get some regulations. Might hamper it a bit. But won't stop it. Ie it could be from Russia or China. So it would only work if all cooperated and banned bot accounts. Which seems unlikely

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If anyone can help, what's the "shit just works" pixelfed version? I joined the biggest one but don't want to give one instance too much power.
I tried to join the 5th or 6th largest but the buttons to sign up wouldn't work

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The first step is to overcome the dependence of the common forum places, being able to renounce to them, remove your profile and learn to enjoy your life without them… only then you can happily drift into a less crowded and active community for ocasional wonders and quality instead of the saturation of engagement that “that” centralised social media offers, the peer pressure to be part of the main stream…

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you're right, but these forums also crowdsource information which can be sorely needed, such as debugging help and problem resolution. unless we provide an alternate hub for this, we aren't likely to see the dominance of these common forums cease.

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Hey! Just subbed! I've been hoping to make more media content around my Bethesda mod tooling Mutagen. I'll be cross posting there when I do!

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that's wonderful to hear! every new modding tool in the arsenal is massive. I look forward to it!
sincerely, someone who has a windows dual boot exclusively to be able to use the creation kit.

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Can you delete it a little harder? It's still there for me. Maybe you only put it in the thrash bin. You need to either empty the bin, or press shift+delete in order to delete it permanently.

Godspeed. We're all counting on you, oh ye who has the power to delete all of Reddit!

P.S.: Not trying to make fun of you, btw! Just entertaining myself. "Deleting" something sounds so different when you're used to using it through your browser.

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I see, my tip was thinking in meta/tiktok-like socials rather than reddit/stackoverflow-like. But I feel that it is not too much different. Probably the error was pouring so much knowledge in such “volatile” places (in the sense of user/community not really controlling it) in the first place, but aren’t human interactions already like that? Accept them as conversations lost in time, something always survive and returns, and new things always born. A pity, sure, but a part of life. In any case, it is quite unlikely to reach in a new place in barely a few years the same quantity of information than more than a decade of knowledge in old forums, yet I feel that pian piano people contributes to the shift… in the end we are humans which enjoy of social exchanges

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I'm ADHDing as hard as I can already bro