We're in agreement, but I'm more militant for the specific example (amitheasshole).
It's right in the name. If there is no "I" directly involved, than the bot is an asshole. Sprinkle this philosophy liberally when expanding scope to almost all bot content, and it encompasses my opinion with scant few exceptions.
In a lot of ways, the fascism that Italy invented never left. I had hopes 20-30 years ago, but they have been roundly dashed.
Bingo. Enshittification is mostly confined to companies that have gone public or whose sole aspiration is to do so quickly.
It shifts responsibility from satisfying customers/users to satisfying shareholders (who are never satisfied).
You can build the perfect product and ride a gravy train as a private company in relative perpetuity. As a corporation, you're just going to strive for perpetually increasing profits on a quarterly basis with no real care or focus past that
$50 per year to change an icon.
Agreed. I would much rather see fewer posts than bot content. A human OP is going to engage in conversation, and is also likely able to provide more context on the topic of their OP.
I've taken to blocking obvious bots (extremely high post:comment ratio) to keep the same feel as the fediverse had since "rexit".
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surely they're going through a personal crisis to be so terminally online and posting so frequently.
I apparently needed to see this today. Life has been winding me up lately and I have been impatient/quick to dismiss people as a result.
Thanks for snapping me out of it.
How long have you been awake?
Forgot one, deleteypants.
Please stand by your authoritarian views going forward.
Eh.. It has its place (especially if dude is going to set me up like that), and can be ignored if it's not your cup of tea.
Prurient banter has been a part of online forums since BBS message boards. It's how most people I know communicate IRL and online: Bullshit, bullshit, nugget of wisdom, picture of cat.
Not everything needs to be THUPER THERIAL, but it can be (and has frequently been) overdone because a lot of people don't realize that self-censorship is a hammer to be swung heavily.
Appreciate you taking the time to explain. That's not really the vibe I caught, but I could be projecting.
I, too, am upset at how echo chambery reddit became, and the knee-jerk censorship the mods displayed. I had an account permanently and immediately banned from politics for "hate speech" because I said that DINOs Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin were date rapists for bending the Democratic party over against its will after taking them out to a nice dinner. Over the next few weeks, I was silently banned from about a dozen other subs.
Turns out that the person behind it all was the same "powermod" who threw a colossal tantrum after being banned herself just a couple of weeks ago.
I disagree with you about globally deplatforming "the bad guys," because I don't get to choose who they are, and one day - like above - that "bad guy" could end up being you.
Don't like it, or can't deal with it? Block them.
Oddly, I have noticed that most people I know aren't interested in taking the minimal risk to sail the seas now that there's widespread cause.
Back when Netflix was awesome, I knew a LOT more people who were willing to dive in to the technical stuff, risk, and additional effort to strap on an eye patch.
Anyone's guess on the root cause, but I feel like the amount of people on the interwebs now have absolutely no idea (or interest) how anything works. "Push colorful button to do things" seems to be it.