NewBrainWhoThis

NewBrainWhoThis , 1 year ago to youshouldknow in YSK: Subscriber count on communities only show the numbers of users subscribed from your specific instance. The real number might be much larger than you think.

Are there plans to display the actual numer or is it just not possible becaus of the underlying protocol?

NewBrainWhoThis , 1 year ago to youshouldknow in YSK: While you're on Lemmy/Kbin/Fediverse, you're not "the product" but you're also not "the customer".

Yes, that would be the best. But as we have seen, users are drawn to the instances with the most users :/

NewBrainWhoThis , 1 year ago to youshouldknow in YSK: While you're on Lemmy/Kbin/Fediverse, you're not "the product" but you're also not "the customer".

Lets see what the future brings. As long as the user count is low there isn’t much of a problem, but if instances suddenly have millions of users, it will get expensive for admins to run the service. If too few people donate (what is usually the case), admins are forced to search for other ways to finance the infrastructure. The other point is AI, wheter you like it or not, if Lemmy is big enough, the content (conversations etc.) will be used to train LLMs. Also, the content will certainly be interesting for advertisers to learn user preferences. The difficulty comes with scale.

NewBrainWhoThis , 1 year ago to reddit in Reddit announced new ad features on Friday

You forgot to delete “As a large language model” 😏

NewBrainWhoThis , 1 year ago to reddit in Reddit r/all page right now - posting a screenshot here so you don't have to open it

Also “Traps” 🧐

NewBrainWhoThis , 1 year ago to reddit in Reddit announced new ad features on Friday

This is dangerous and should be forbidden…