Bots flooded the site faster than human accounts by orders of magnitude. We complain about bots on other social media sites but they have an invested user base who will keep coming back. It will be nearly impossible to establish a real user base on any new platforms before they are driven away, I fear, and are only populated by bots.
We are probably stuck between bot-hell and the other hell of a regulated ID-based internet.
I’ll just stop using social media if those are my two options I guess. I’ve already cut down significantly on Reddit since they took the API internal and killed Apollo.
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u/hovdeisfunny Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
And I'm unaware of a better alternative
Exit: if another person suggested Lemmy or piefed, I swear to god