Well, in theory sure. But you always lose people during migrations, it's inevitable. And it's cumbersome for users. It's not a nice experience. The fediverse has enough bad UX as it is, I'd prefer if we didn't pile on more.
If the fediverse actually held true to the promise of easy migrations, then maybe it wouldn't be a big deal. But unfortunately it's still not really that easy.
Unfortunately migrating from one fediverse application to another on the same domain is actually basically impossible, due to the way ActivityPub works. It's very unfortunate.
Damn! If only someone could've predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s
Your link goes to lemmy.world, which only works for users on lemmy.world. For everyone else who doesn't use lemmy.world, you just get to lemmy.world where you are not logged in. So you need that kind of link to go to the community while still staying on your own instance.
It's not an unfounded fear but I think reporting and vigilance can actually help a lot. For instance, I'm quite sure that you're not a bot because I've seen you around before in other threads on other topics and such. Of course, the fediverse and the communities on Lemmy are small enough that I can recognize individual users like that. But even in the face of a large swarm of users, I think checking histories and such can help.
If we truly get to the scenario where it's impossible to tell bots and humans apart, even while considering post history and everything... hmm I dunno, I guess we'll have truly reached the dead internet theory but then again we may also have inveted truly artificial general intelligence. It's hard to predict right now. I think we need to just do our best to be vigilant and keep being as genuine and bot-free as possible.
Well both. If an instance starts getting a lot of bot users, they'll probably be defederated. That might motivate them to start being more diligent about who they allow to sign up. Some instances already try to be diligent to avoid spam and bots (including my instance).
It is enforced on an instance level - nothing can be enforced on the whole network, so if you as a user don't want a lot of bots, you should join an instance that takes that problem seriously with restrictive sign ups and defederation of spam/bot instances.
On the fediverse, you vote by choosing where to participate. So choose the instance with the policies that you like.
Hmm don't really agree, as you can observe different parts of space on different time periods due to light's finite speed and time dilation and such. Not all parts of space are at the same time simultaneously. Also, relativity tells us that the state you observe is different from the state of another observer. So you can't really write this number of the universe down (or at least, you can only write your own personal number down but it won't be the same as anyone else's number).
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User blocking also doesn't block votes so they'll also still influence your feed.