The grand majority of Mozilla's spending is for engineers.
douglasg14b
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They use chromium.
Firefox does not.
The grand majority of software engineering effort goes into the browser development that they never have to work on for the most part.
Yes, and with reddit having a baseline corporate & bot astroturfing rate of ~25% that's not exactly a good bar to measure by.
I... That's not how this works. Or at least that's not the context I'm referring to.
I can make an account (or 1000, Lemmy doesn't exactly have controls to stop me) and run it as a bot, and NOT mark it as a bot. And use it to automatically manipulate the tone of conversations and threads without anyone knowing. And the premise of your argument is now void.
Labeling of bots is done via goodwill.
We're not worried about goodwill users in this context. We're talking about astroturfing bots posing as actual users. That said, labeled bots are still a problem if their content out grows organic user content, since that just isolates us, and erodes our community in favor of w/e interesting content bots scaped up today.
Which is a massive problem on almost every social media platform already. And will come to Lemmy soon enough.
This seems like classic corporate backtracking when their customers spot a terrible, deliberate decision.
I didn't think that's the case here
However, would you rather that the feedback of users NOT change behavior? I'm not entirely sure what your end game is here, you WANT corporations to ignore and not take action on feedback?
How can they block this for everyone?
No, now they taste that sad slightly burnt air with a tablespoon of salt.
Unfortunately the bot problem is coming to Lemmy.
Bots posting content is already a thing here, and then taking up front page space is already a thing.
Lemmy is speed running "How to lose your sense of community".
Seriously. We don't need bot bullshit on Lemmy.
This is the start of the slide for Reddit is just going to be worse here because there are fewer controls to actually detect and do something about bots.
This.... This is the shit tower.
It's made up of fools who follow fools, and soon to be fools who follow AI ran by people with an agenda.
Naw, they'll make it yaml
And the only way to edit it will be in an on-phone editor that won't use a mono spaced font.
This is more of a symptom the cause is the monopolization of the internet largely by Google