• MinFapper@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    We don’t have corporations manipulating our feeds

    yet. Once we have enough users that it’s worth their effort to target, the bullshit will absolutely come.

    • old_machine_breaking_apart@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      they can perhaps create instances, pay malicious users, try some embrace, extend, extinguish approach or something, but they can’t manipulate the code running on the instances we use, so they can’t have direct power over it. Or am I missing something? I’m new to the fediverse.

      • BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social
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        There’s very little to prevent them just pretending to be average users and very little preventing someone from just signing up a bunch of separate accounts to a bunch of separate instances.

        No great automated way to tell whether someone is here legitimately.

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          Yeah, and that is true for a lot of service. Sybil attack is indeed quite hard to prevent since malicious users can blend with legitimate ones.

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      6 months ago

      Federation means if you are federated then sure you get some BS. Otherwise, business as usual. Now, making sure there is no paid user or corporate bot is another matter entirely since it relies on instance moderators.