I imagine a lot of people have jobs where it would be trivial to set something like this up on company resources under the radar and then lose access / get laid off without the company ever knowing it’s running
I imagine a lot of people have jobs where it would be trivial to set something like this up on company resources under the radar and then lose access / get laid off without the company ever knowing it’s running
This doesn’t make much sense because different companies / services will have vastly different development costs associated with Linux compatibility and there wouldn’t be just one global threshold for profitability for everyone
“Oh boy the line went up that must mean I’m on the winning team!”
The problem is that without an effective way to ID bot content then stats like this could be covering up the real trends in human users, particularly in any stat that purports to measure all lemmy instances since we already know there are instances out there filled with thousands of bot users
The “too good to be true” sell and complete lack of detail / pricing on their website is sketchy imo. I’m immediately suspicious of any org that profits off of piracy in such an opaque way
Sometimes I think the developers of these kinds of projects sometimes drink too much of their own Kool aid – yes emulation as a concept is legal but 99% of dolphin users are not ripping and emulating their own legal games and they know that
Ya I’m surprised that people are advocating for Plex these days especially in a self hosting community, it’s overbloated and mostly exists to force their FAST service down your throat
Ya fuck star trek
There have already been instances found that had thousands of bot accounts, they’ve been defederated but clearly people are gearing up
To my knowledge there’s also no way of identifying bot accounts unless they proactively self identify so these numbers don’t don’t mean much
Ya it’s a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community
Ya it’s a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community
Damn I’ve never even heard of that but I wish I had, it seems like it’d be fun to fuck around and see how many recorded responses you can find lol
I’ve never used one myself but I’ve heard talk of various ones either A) taking the public (real) like number and extrapolating the dislikes based on an old like/dislike ratio available for the video from before the dislike removal (doesn’t work on new videos) or B) the extension includes a feature where the user can like/dislike the video within the extension and then the dislike number is extrapolated using the public (real) like number and the extension’s private like/dislike ratio. In either case the number is not connected to the “real” dislike count that YouTube would have access to internally
Pretty sure those extensions all use some sort of estimate methodology, the dislikes aren’t available via any apis or anything
Curious what you use a local version of MediaWiki for?
Even their “correct” functionality is sketchy AF, the average user would still have no idea what that URL tag meant and thus would not be making the informed choice the article implies they would be making