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Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Hubi@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How much did human usage drop? Because there are a shitload more bots on twitter nowadays than there were in the years before he took over.

[–] muelltonne@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This should be human usage - the user survey was done by phone.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

Ah, ok, 27% -> 19%, an 8% YoY drop, and the numbers were obtained using identical methodologies across multiple years. Yeah, I agree, seems to check out.

Still, there are definitely a shitload more bots than there were before.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Any time something gets too big it gets bots. Lemmy will be the same. We will see instances getting defederated who cannot manage the spam.

Fuck Elon though

[–] psmgx@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Any time something gets too big it gets bots

Dead internet theory, summed up in a sentence

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If people set up their own instances with 100% LLM bots how would we even know they are bots to defederate? The AIs are too realistic. Only giveaway would be the ones dumb enough to make accounts post/comment 24/7 with seconds between each comment.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I imagine the content would be bad, which is the whole reason an instance would become defederated.

[–] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't like one of his focuses going to be getting rid of bots? Did they just not do anything and the bots just invaded or did the bots just get better?

[–] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

He got rid of like 80% of the staff. I doubt he has a functional team who can even tackle the problem.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io -1 points 8 months ago

I suspect even more than 30%, and by a lot. Nearly all of the communities that once thrived seem to be dead. It feels very empty.