I love the fact that fediverse was built from the ground up to be free, federated and interoperable. I have two questions that may come from my lack of expertise / knowledge, so I apologise in advance if they are dumb.

Bots can disrupt smaller instances:

What is stopping corpos from scraping everyone's posts and stuff from the fediverse and train their AI? What's stopping them then, to create loads of not accounts and spam / disrupt smaller communities? When an instances quality drops, the users may be more incentivised to migrate to bigger instances and go there. It's safe to say most Lemmy users are not going to spin their own instance and start communities from scratch. Meanwhile, the onslaught of bots can overwhelm these budding communities and instances.

Corpos can flood the fediverse with ads and crap:

Threads comes to mind on this point and how many instances have chosen not to defederate with them. Besides, they can create bridges, and have repost bots in all instances to flood major them with ads. With generative content, it is so much easier to make a seemingly casual post about a product and mask it as an advertisement.

I've seen previous posts about people wanting to come because of their opinion about how certain countries behave. I feel the true evil are the corporates.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Who are you going to listen to? This guy?

Or Fred Flintstone?

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Winstons?! That's a baby's cigarette! And I should know because ~~our~~ the parent company of Morleys, Philly Mortis, used to own the Croft Food company, which has a line of baby foods. Also most pediatricians prefer Morley Juniors for the little ones anyway.

On a side note, I've got to appreciate the level of detail in that ad. His lighter works by rubbing two sticks together. I will never not be delighted by the Flintstones' anachronisms.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's a really catchy commercial, too. "Winston tastes good like a...cigarette should."

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It really is. I guess the silver lining is that hundreds of years of smoking might at least influence our natural selection such that the average person is slightly more resistant to wildfire smoke and acetylcholine agonists/ acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Perhaps we've been training for the environmental disasters and chemical warfare that climate change may bring.