Bots are necessary. But having moderation bots and other useful ones like the one for reminders is one thing, and another one is bots posting spam 100 times a day.

How to stop it? No idea

Edit: typo

I’m sure it will eventually, it might just take a little while to wash off the Reddit stink

that is totally understandable. But, my point here would be, how are you profitable to Meta if you are keeping your privacy? That makes no sense to them, for them you are only as valuable as the data they can extract from you and the ads they can show you. So I do believe their end goal is to take your privacy away

I have put on that same hat already believe me

That’s the word, thanks

They can share it… All the way over there

I really hope that’s the case, but honestly don’t think so

Honest question: What makes you think Meta will be putting that content there for you if they can’t profit from you?

A free, open-source, privacy-conscious, human-moderated platform with great usability and easily accessible sounds beautiful. Also, sounds decades away and probably utopic, given the amount of time and resources needed to make all that possible. And when you start focusing on just getting funding to keep growing, well, you end up being Meta.

I really really hope I’m proven wrong as soon as possible

They don’t need to come here and try and take users

Exactly, they don’t need to, yet they plan to. What do you think their goal is?

two things:

have you considered that if this happens, once the fediverse’s exposure grows it will be thanks to Meta’s entrance, then the people that join the fediverse will do so by Meta’s means (in this case, Threads. But they can make some more after)? Making them the standard way to access the protocol, gradually making other communities less and less relevant.

It makes the fediverse more interesting for people like me who can “live” here and access the content I want.

I’m not trying to be rude by any means, but honestly, if the content you enjoy is on their platforms, just go there and enjoy it. You can be both there and here.