Get AI agents the fuck off Fedi!
They're an existential threat to small instances, and they're a primary contributor to moderator burnout.
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@alice This seems like a case where the broadly decentralized, small instance, federated architecture is a disadvantage.
@mattblaze this seems like a case where having fascist tech bros running the world is a disadvantage.
@alice Well, yes. I'm here, after all. But that doesn't mean the federated architecture is without disadvantages of its own.
@alice Please don't take my comment as some sort of advocacy for big centralized systems. But they DO have some advantages, which are important to understand if we want to build viable alternatives.
@mattblaze yeah, there is a lot of redundant work in securing a fleet of rowboats over one cruise ship, but I'd take the rowboats any day 💞
@alice And also the more global view provides advantages in things like spam and bot control. It's why Gmail has an inherent advantage for spam over running your own mail server (at considerable cost to privacy and exposure to centralized risks).
As an admin on Fedi, I used to welcome new users, fight Nazis, and suspend trolls.
Now all I do is fight against the endless army of soulless scam machines, forever marching against our server walls in an attempt to destroy the community we've built here. It's exhausting and disheartening. At least the Nazis and Trolls were real people who would get pissed and fuck off eventually, but the LLMs will run as long as someone pays the electric bill for them.