I think it's interesting how "maximizing for engagement" inevitably leads to slop taking over everything. I wonder if real people (with real money) will continue to engage with the slop? Some people surely, but enough to sustain these mega-corps?
Kirk
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Fedora is a solid choice. I recommend Kinoite because it's familiar to Windows users and impossible to break.
startrek.website hosts two other UIs that might help you until the fix is made.
https://old.startrek.website/ - Old reddit style
https://vger.startrek.website/ - A mobile web UI
Because you can't control human beings? I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy "communities" are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to "re-toot" a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
Good Lord, didn't anybody here build ships in bottles when they were boys?
S-tier effort meme. 
What's weird to me is that even after being reminded about it he carried on as if they don't exist?
A cool feature would be to enable community mods to "retoot" posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.
LOL as I was typing it I thought to myself "Ten years ago nobody alive would have any clue WTF this could possibly mean."
This has been true for over a year now, I think the only reason that community points anywhere else is because a majority of them already moved to Lemmy instances.
This is a really good idea actually.
Yeah I have to imagine much of it is bots/artificial views already, this line from the article stood out:
It doesn't shock me a single reel has significantly more views than all of 404 media, but "multiplied tens of times"? A recent comment me chuckle:
(implying the ad views are faked to increase the stock price).