Yeah, I saw someone on Lemmy showing screenshots two posts that were copied exactly from like 8 months ago except for a single new legitimate comment. It’s wild what LLMs are doing to online interaction and honestly… this is just the beginning.
Avoiding them myself is great, but long term I’d love do see the Fediverse succeed. We need to shut down propaganda if we want it to be viable. There’s no corporation or organization running the show, it’s us.
I don’t think they’re trying to lose. I think they’re overrun by corporate influence as badly as the Republicans, and have no strong leadership to coordinate and guide them against a relatively coordinated right wing with foreign support.