they love CCP and russia for example in its current state. thier go-to instead of woke, is calling things 'shit-lib"

IDK I think it works brilliantly.

It prevents the iron grip on users/content like Reddit/Twitter have achieved. Enshitification can be defeated by moving instances, which is way easier when it can be done piecemeal instead of all at once, users can move at will and not even lose their friends and communities. Lemmy.world is less than a third of the Threadiverse, and only like 1% of the Fediverse. Enshitification relies on slowly boiling the frog, but here with federation that would cause a slow bleed of users moving until there's no one left in your enshitified instance. Finding alternatives is really easy and you'll already be used to the software since there are other instances with the same software.

If the software tries to enshitify then the code can be forked, instance admins can band together to support the new fork. Or switch to a different platform entirely like PieFed instead of Lemmy. Or even just changing the frontend to Photon or something like that.

its the ones distilled from other platforms like reddit, or another where they get banned.

i just block politics.worlds, its usually the most problematic one for me, especially with thier subtle pro-zionist rhetoric. im fine with the other communities though.

yea, thats why alot of other instance shut down, too much to handle.

reddits arnt coming here, unless SPEZ/reddit decides to a massive purge wave again, which they wont now. because they realize they lost too much irl users to thier AI slop, and now bots/spammers are taking over reddit. they went with more subtle background shadowbans.

we had a larger instance now shutdown and too many people are scattered to the other ones, and i noticed less content on my feed because of that.

Only way there is a mass rexit is if the bot accounts get fed up and leave.

Can't say I'm looking forward to swarms of bot accounts descening on Lemmy

Lemmy.world has about 40% of the pop these days.

They are already arriving to some degree.

The difference being is that Lemmy and other similar services have zero controls or ability to handle bots or bop traffic if those bots were bots from 2014.

Not bots from today.

It's a bit of a problem and honestly with increasing bot traffic across the internet and fedaverse being extremely vulnerable to it It's absolutely bat shit insane, but I don't see any other option than somehow having some form of human verification.

It's a problem

Biggest problem for Lemmy and similar applications is scalability and controls and detection for bots.

The compute costs to operate instances are astronomical compared to the actual user load they receive.

That's a bit of a side problem compared to bots though. Bots are a real problem that services like this are not equipped to handle.

Lemmy is not capable of dealing with bots at all I believe

It's a design feature of the fediverse that larger instances are better. Bluesky goes a long way towards solving these issues. So there's no point in complaining about people not making sacrifices.

I know a few marxist-leninists IRL who, as you say, are quite normal.

Really? How does that work? Like, in what way are the ml?

Just surprised and curious.

Oh glad to see there's quite some representation around.

Now, we have to add to it.

(I should really adopt a non-photogenic cat sometime)

Lemmy seems in a great spot. I hope people give it a chance