• how_we_burned@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    The fact that you, a human, asked this question, and got a variety of human replies is why I would say no.

    Well they are on the fediverse/lemmy. It’s not dead, yet, simply because there aren’t enough users to create a RoI for bot/karma farming in order to push advertising and disinformation to the top.

    I recently saw an internal report estimating that dark fibre in a particular country needed to increase several hundred percent in order to meet the demand from data centre and large facilities transmission needs.

    Much of this being built for the AI bubble boom. When the next generation of DC come online the cost of per bot will continue to tumble to the point where it won’t cost much to turn even Lemmy into a bot ridden wasteland.

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      When the next generation of DC come online the cost of per bot will continue to tumble to the point where it won’t cost much to turn even Lemmy into a bot ridden wasteland.

      I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Unlike reddit, this is federated and unmonetized. Bots will be scraping it, but why will they be posting?