• someguy3@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    … If there are people to mislead with misinformation, or people with money to buy things, there will be incentive. I learned about this in this great book called

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      12 hours ago

      Lemmy is basically 30 or 40 Linux meme platforms begging for donations, full of people bitching about AI and politics, and recycling old reddit shitposts. I love it. I am home here. I love you all.

      But, we aren’t running communities with millions of people trading crypto and stonks. There’s instances that are full on socialists. A pig butchering scam here would founder so badly they would banish anyone foolish enough to try it to redemtuon by spamming the comment sections of cooking blog posts before being summarily executed.

      We have herd immunity.