• eicker@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    The weirdest part won’t be bots outnumbering humans: It’ll be bots writing articles for bots, bots summarising them for other bots, bots commenting underneath, and bots measuring the engagement. … Meanwhile three actual humans are somewhere wondering why the internet suddenly feels so empty.

    • mrnarwall@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I know it’s unrealistic, but what would it take to return to a previous type of Internet that wasn’t so siloed and marketed, and filled with dread Internet?

      • MangoCats@feddit.it
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        12 days ago

        In a way, the Lemmy layer is sort of doing that. The previous type of Internet is still out there, if you just take the effort to access it / avoid the links in to the marketed sides.

        • Auli@lemmy.ca
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          9 days ago

          But it isn’t so many things have gone to Facebook or reddit and nothing else.