Amongst the sludge of AI-powered everything at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, a robbery took place. “Dudesy —” allegedly a “comedy artificial intelligence” with its own podcast — put out an hour-long “impression” of George Carlin, in which it had “listened to all of Carlin’s material” and “[done] its best to imitate his voice, cadence and attitude, as well as the subject matter [it] thought might have interested him today.” The special was created without the permission or blessing of Carlin’s family, with his daughter Kelly saying that “
haha you’re right, I was hoping one of those shitheads would take the bait and do a “how dare you I’m not a shill, you’re the shill” post for our enjoyment. no such luck now that the cat’s out of the bag on how shitty the Carlin special was though.
I don’t have a suite of advanced analytics (and a lot of the analytics available for lemmy use methods I disagree with) but my admin eyes have been seeing an increase in this type of posts recently. I don’t keep up with reddit anymore, but I don’t think anything’s happened that’d increase lemmy’s organic userbase by a noticeable margin. most likely some brainless hypebros have discovered that lemmy’s the ideal size: big enough to be an audience, but small enough that their bullshit won’t get shouted down. in short, expect more MBA dropouts to get banned for undisclosed advertising
One thing I value on lemmy compared to reddit is that it’s not a flat user namespace. If a commenter doesn’t have an account on this instance they’re kinda sorta automatically on probation, reputation wise. Far from it that I’d downvote someone who doesn’t have an account… but let’s just say they start with a lower prior.
oh absolutely. it’s very easy to shit on a thread and run from a federated account (which is also why we ban shit stirrers quickly — it’s a hostile network out there), but an account with a track record gets much less harsh treatment in case of any problems because they’ve shown they’re capable of making good posts, and we don’t really want to punish anyone for something that’s relatively minor weighed against their post history. a local account gets a (minor) leg up on that track record, because the user behind it has at least introduced themselves during registration and gone out of their way to get an account here. local accounts also stand out more from a moderation perspective, so the reputation of those users tends to grow quicker too.
Yeah, the nature of federation and “oh, just glance at their activity in other places with other norms” is extremely handy here, even if it does occasionally lead to regretful realisations of what you just saw on somesuch history
haha you’re right, I was hoping one of those shitheads would take the bait and do a “how dare you I’m not a shill, you’re the shill” post for our enjoyment. no such luck now that the cat’s out of the bag on how shitty the Carlin special was though.
I don’t have a suite of advanced analytics (and a lot of the analytics available for lemmy use methods I disagree with) but my admin eyes have been seeing an increase in this type of posts recently. I don’t keep up with reddit anymore, but I don’t think anything’s happened that’d increase lemmy’s organic userbase by a noticeable margin. most likely some brainless hypebros have discovered that lemmy’s the ideal size: big enough to be an audience, but small enough that their bullshit won’t get shouted down. in short, expect more MBA dropouts to get banned for undisclosed advertising
One thing I value on lemmy compared to reddit is that it’s not a flat user namespace. If a commenter doesn’t have an account on this instance they’re kinda sorta automatically on probation, reputation wise. Far from it that I’d downvote someone who doesn’t have an account… but let’s just say they start with a lower prior.
oh absolutely. it’s very easy to shit on a thread and run from a federated account (which is also why we ban shit stirrers quickly — it’s a hostile network out there), but an account with a track record gets much less harsh treatment in case of any problems because they’ve shown they’re capable of making good posts, and we don’t really want to punish anyone for something that’s relatively minor weighed against their post history. a local account gets a (minor) leg up on that track record, because the user behind it has at least introduced themselves during registration and gone out of their way to get an account here. local accounts also stand out more from a moderation perspective, so the reputation of those users tends to grow quicker too.
Shit, are you insinuating we’re actually making good posts here? I’m going to have to severely drop my game!
Yeah, the nature of federation and “oh, just glance at their activity in other places with other norms” is extremely handy here, even if it does occasionally lead to regretful realisations of what you just saw on somesuch history