I know probably not the perfect place to post this but want to get the discussion started and don’t know enough to be scared or not: because of the decentralization of Lemmy, is it extremely vulnerable to malicious/ad bots, astroturfing, spam and such?

  • mysoulishome@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not sure if you were alive when we all moved from MySpace to Facebook but it is supposed to be exciting and scary, baby. All the best things in life are.

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      1 year ago

      Or when Digg leadership made utterly boneheaded decisions that wrecked the way users interacted with the platform and drove everyone to: Reddit.

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        1 year ago

        Former Digg user who migrated to Reddit once everyone stopped posting. I don’t actually remember why though. What did Digg do again that pissed us off? I remember something about the navigation changed that I didn’t like, but it’s all a blur.

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          If I recall correctly they changed the algorithms to prioritize “promoted” corporate content and deemphasized user content. They also did multiple redesigns, removing and changing features, and ultimately removed messaging, downvotes, and video posts with DiggV4. That final redesign, and user generated content getting buried lead to the mass exodus.

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            For me it was always the redesigns. Man they just never stopped and it just got worse and worse. I’m sure they were in aid of something but it sure as shit wasn’t the users.