Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:
- Bot spam
- Dead
- 0 Followers
- 0 Following
- 2 Posts
Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful.
Just because it’s where all the users already are. You couldn’t start Reddit today, it’d immediately get spammed by AI bots and no one would stick around.
Hell, Reddit’s API changes had a noticeable impact on most text-only subreddits I was a part of, and then the AI content just made a lot of the remaining ones die off. No one’s rushing to Lemmy to fill those niches. They’re just not participating in them online, instead.
Some things are preventative. There’s plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.
According to a Stack Overflow survey from 2025, 84 percent of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, up from 76 percent a year earlier. This rapid adoption partly explains the decline in forum activity.
As someone who participated in the survey, I’d recommend everyone take anything regarding SO’s recent surveys with a truckfull of salt. The recent surveys have been unbelievable biased with tons of leading questions that force you to answer in specific ways. They’re basically completely worthless in terms of statistics.
Maybe I’m just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab’s features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It’s why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.
Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn’t cared about people’s privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.
“Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!” is about as big a deal, honestly.
the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology and artificial intelligence products
Genuine question, but doesn’t this just mean that Israel paid for a Microsoft Azure subscription and used it to host web services? Like, anyone can do that. What am I missing here, exactly?
They say Microsoft have “deepened” their relationship, but how did they do that, exactly?
Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?
My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: “The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome.”
What makes this doubly stupid is that I’m a web developer. I literally can’t test my stuff on another browser…