Re:AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
by account42 on Friday May 08, 2026 @06:54AM
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That's an assumption. Depending on the incentives in play, the relative scale at which AI users and real humans are affected may well be the opposite of what you expect.
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No, that's based on my experience running subscribers-only instances on the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, Matrix, Funkwhale) for more than 6 years now. I might not have that many users on the servers, but it's certainly a higher number than the zero spammers I ever got.