We already have existing anti-bot measures in the world that don’t involve writing a lame sentence. Also, it’s very easy to spoof an introductory sentence. You could train a fairly small language model to do so.

I don’t actually think it’s got much to do with having a phone app or not. I see what you are saying with the medium being the message, but I don’t think the “medium” is phones or computers.

You’re right about the medium being the message though, it’s just that the medium is a nerdy federated social media. Right now we are in the first or second big wave of new users. Not quite the nerdiest of the nerds who would have been using Lemmy since the beginning, but we are getting the “early adopters” and the people willing to go out on a limb to try something new. These are the kinds of people who are likely to interact with a community in a positive way, because they are already investing themselves into something before it is established.

I am using a phone app to write this message right now, it was really easy and accessible for me to login and get to grips with the UI. There are loads of people just like me, in fact I would be willing to bet Lenny is being used by 80% mobile users. It’s just how we communicate with the world these days. Very few people browse social medias on a computer.

What if we had a community standing metric that flips only between “good” and “bad.”

You get “bad standing” if the majority of your contributions in the last 6 months have a majority of downvotes than upvotes, but it resets after 6 months.

Everyone defaults to “good standing”.

This serves the purpose of a metric to filter out trolls or bad-faith actors, whilst making “karma farming” pointless.

Which is great… until it becomes influenced by all the other AI generated crap.

I just wanted to say, I love how we can see the beauty of Lemmy in-action here.

Seeing both the upvotes & the downvotes, and all the suggestions of going to a different instance… it’s honestly a beautiful thing, and it’s like watching a small snippet of how human society works.

“I don’t like the way this instance works”

“Go somewhere else then”

“But I don’t want to/I don’t feel like it’s fair”

“But we do like the way it works”

Humans have truly never changed, and it’s a privelage to watch this play out in such a format.

Yep… which is the challenge. The only word we have is ADHD, but really it’s so much more complex.

Love this analogy haha!

I feel like I have seen more conversations on Lemmy about Reddit than original content

Aye

If you haven’t already, playing Black-Mesa -> Half-Life 2 -> both Episode 1 & 2 are the perfect examples of what you describe. So many details and stories in all the levels, and you are just a guy passing through