Let’s flip this a little bit: if someone offered you a bet that OP is a bot vs not a bot, how much would the odds have to be in order for you to take it?

1. My reddit account (with the same username) is 19 years old. This one was created in June of 2023, from even before the blackout. OP’s account is 17 days old.
2. If you really care about it, I can arrange ways to prove that I am a real person - just get my matrix id here, and we could chat there if you want. Do you think that OP would accept such a request?
3. Are you forgetting that some weeks ago there was some idiot around here telling how he wanted to get some LLM bots to post content and figure out if others would notice? Oh, and it’s not that it was a fully automated bot. The idea was to just post the content, but on accounts where he was supervising and could write as well.

I stand by my opinion. OP’s playing y’all for fools and now we are all arguing pointlessly.

Yeah, but the point is the consistency. It’s quite easy to prompt the model to just respond in always in the same way, and one could just say “you are supposed to talk like an average redditor. Keep it positive and short, and only elaborate if asked to.”

Bio: “Your Digital Workshop. We build websites and host them, as well as create content for your social media.”

Posts: all on a bunch of different communities. All of them short, just one or two sentences.

Ironically, this account’s bio and its history is screaming “I am a LLM posting a bunch of AI slop”.

Can we get a list of people that are on the Fediverse and you’d like to support?

Because then it wouldn’t be “all” any more.

You could do something like that, where instance admins choose what they believe is more relevant, but then it would be better to call it “featured” or “curated”…

Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.

We still don’t need ATProto for that. ActivityPods solves that.

ActivityPub itself is built around the principle that the server owns your identity: the best you can do is abandon an identity (i.e, your actor URL) and tell everyone else (via the Move Activity) that you are adopting a new identity.

And they are either in for one of the following:

• a $30 Million lesson where they learn that they will have to reinvent ActivityPub in order to be “properly” decentralized
• a rug pull where they come up with a second relay like Bluesky but fork to give exclusive access for large institutions and the enterprise.

AFAIK, Communick is the only service provider offering GoToSocial (disclaimer, I am the owner).

How would it be any different from https://masto.host/, https://elest.io/ or https://communick.com/ (All of them provide mastodon hosting exclusively on European infrastructure)?

Lemmy had the same jump in numbers during the Reddit Exodus. Mastodon had a huge boost when Elon bought Twitter.

Every spike has been a followed by a slide back to baseline in less than a couple of months. After you’ve seen it happen so many times, it is no longer interesting.

https://xkcd.com/605/

Lies, damn lies, and graphs that don’t have the Y-axis starting at 0.

10% growth in a day is nice, but far from a revolution. Let’s see this trend going for a month.