yes! I mean pathological demand avoidance, I literally forgot there is another meaning to the acronym 🤣

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project’s photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.

(I needed a lesson myself)

It’s time people from the north start giving climate immigration visas.

I mean look at the curves of that beach!!

stares in “12% of Greek voters choosing blatant facist parties”

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For personal machines, I use rivers.

At work we use superheroes.

For hobby projects, cute 4 letter words (it’s a challenge), for example bubu and alia.

What’s the Gentoo equivalent of an instance?

Your dealers home: Am I a joke to you?

TLDR Bots can be good, bots can also be bad. We need to find a balance.

I feel the value of Reddit, Lemmy, and any similar platform does not come from the post itself but (a) the interactions within the comments and (b) the sorting based on votes.

These two features make information here reliable and obtaining reliable information becomes more productive.

For example, an article expresses information verified by a single person or a team, but when that article is posted here many people read it and share their opinion. I can go through the comments and determine how bullshit or not that article is. Also, the comments contain quotes, summaries and relevant information which one would have to spend hours researching. Lastly, when multiple articles are posted on a community sorting allows me to find the articles worth my time.

It does not matter if the post was created by a bot, but whether humans interacted with it.

With all that, I would like to agree with some people here that bots can be a threat. If the content they produce overwhelms the humans interacting with the content.

If human content is buried under thousands of bot posts, noone will interact with it. We need lemmings to feel they are valued by their communities, they shouldn’t have to compete with emotionless robots.

Greek here, they were illegal immigrants. They were helpless people in a boat with a broken engine. They were people fleeing from a war. They were people that didn’t ask for help fearing pushbacks, concetration camps, and police abuse. They were people the coast guard stood and watched them die for 3 days.