Glad to hear I'm not the only one that rebooted my time on SA. There's no real system to game on a forum, so ai bots don't get so far with whatever they're trying to peddle

Between the IPO and the API acronym salad, reddit became a cesspool overnight. That might be a problem with any mainstream social media tbh. As long as there's enough audience, bad actors will infiltrate and enshittify. I'm curious how resilient lemmy is to it, there's different safeguards, and the monetary incentives aren't there for now, but any system relying on up voting or engagement is asking to be fiddled with.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There’s no real system to game on a forum.

Spam bots were common back in the day on phpBB and vbulletin but early captcha addons killed most of them. Modern day I think the biggest thing preserving SA is the one time 5 dollar paywall to register an account more than anything. Board culture and good moderation helps too.

I’m curious how resilient lemmy is to it

Not at all, I think we're only okay for now simply because of obscurity.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, almost forgot I paid money 20 years ago to get on there lol

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

That said...that's a possible solution for lemmy long term maybe? 5 bux to reg an account.