If you ever needed a sign to stop using reddit, this is it.
What an absolute disgrace. I’m pissed that Aaron Swartz was the one who died, and that they fired Victoria. Steve Huffman can go choke on a bag of sweaty dicks.
Firing Victoria was really the end of the Old Reddit. It felt like the loss of that side of reddit - the un-guided AMA’s by famous people - just led to reddit descending further into bots and reposts. The site had nothing to talk about other than itself anymore.
This guy is a total pos
Fuck spez
The former mod of r/jailbait must be proud of himself
We did it!
As bots and sponsored content crowd the internet, Reddit is often seen as a more reliable source of information, and its popularity has exploded in the past couple of years.
Lmfao reading articles like this makes me feel like I’m living in the upside down. The entire site is bots posting content for bots to updoot and comment. Yet here they are getting glazed as “the last site for authentic connection”. Give me a fucking break.
Maybe the article was written by a bot.
Almost certainly. The future is a line of megaphones screaming “It’s never been better!” on autopilot while the world burns
happy studio ghibli AI characters dancing on a projector on a scorched earth with no living creatures and no oxygen
i always like to tell people to look up something they’re really an expert at on these sites (or any kind of “news”/ad-mill shit, notice how wrong they are on the entire thing…then see if they put 2 and 2 together with regards to all the shit they’re not experts on.
anything remotely mainstream and not behind a paywall is just ads and spin
They’re about a decade and a half out of date.
I mean, before LLMs there were people trying to do the mass influence thing… but the only entities that could be effective were the ones that could hire a few hundred people to shitpost in the same direction.
Now any nerd with a graphics card and a python interpreter can operate hundreds of accounts. Large operations are probably creating multiple synthetic high ‘subscriber’ subreddits or buying mod accounts on large subreddits.
russian troll farms can just create large amounts of bot accounts, have them comment and then it either gets deleted or ban, rinse and repeat. since t hey can change thier IP, or device anyways, you cant really stop a troll farm, they are probably using the same methods as the of and link farming accounts to hide thier accounts from being tied altogether, but they dont care about warming up the accounts. just post -delete or ban account repeat again.
To be fair, it probably looks a lot more human than all the microblogging socialmedias that are stuffed to the brim
You raise a good point.
Dammit.
It’s Forbes. One does not have high standards for Forbes content… They seem to write what they are told, not look very deep into issues.
there are 3 types of bots, propaganda bots, OF bots, and link farming bots. the prop ones are the trouble some, reddit has been going after the other 2 since the ban waves occured.
In the same article posted on Reddit one of the top posts is “BuT WhEn ReDdiT aLtErNaTiVe”? Who gonna tell them?
Anyway Reddit was cool up to 5 years ago. Now it’s either bots, AI slop, Trump stuff or furries/hentai stuff.
Reddit’s dead.
“BuT WhEn ReDdiT aLtErNaTiVe”?
Voat exodus imminent
I’d go even further back, with hindsight. During the us elections 2016 it became basically transparent the platform was being manipulated, and it wasn’t very sophisticated at that time. It’s really only evolved since then and there used to be real people to call out the BS.
All before we even get to the corporate fiefdom spez has decided he’d like it to be.
2016 is when russian troll farms started to realize reddit was ripe for the taking, started taking off in 2017, and by 2018, political based bans were in fact, even misconstrued posts. plus r/conspiracy was started to be taking over by conservatives. after reddit banned many “donald trump” subs they went looking for next best one to take over.
also the same time i was calling out ragebaiting around the same time articles.
At least from particular subs, those users would get banned and their comment removed within seconds. 24/7. The response times is what convinced me it wasn’t just volunteer mods handling that.
There have basically always been automods of varying capabilities and complexity. Without those no sub ever would have enough moderation capability.
This wasn’t automod.
Remember in 2013 when reddit made a blog post about reddit meetup day with some statistics and they accidentally left in Eglin Air Force Base as the “most addicted city?”
Of course, can’t have the plebs knowing that the site is manipulated by the military so they corrected the mistake, but archive.org remembers.
It’s just as likely there’s no conspiracy there. It’s reasonable that Reddit was just big at that one particular place, more than other place (per capita), which can make sense given that those people actually talk to each other more than a typical city would.
I do think the US government was pretty good about not propagandizing its own people from within the government. There was a long period of time where non-partisan roles were expected to remain non-partisan. That’s part of why the Biden admin didn’t go after Trump like they should have. They didn’t even want the potential appearance of partisan government. In hindsight, yeah, that may have been foolish. They were fighting a five alarm fire with dollar store plastic squirt guns.
I noticed that r/technology bans some keywords, like if your comment says “PieFed” and you try to open it Incognito/Private then it won’t show up, I have to say Pie-Fed (without the hyphen)
I think they also ban some mentions of Lemmy instances but I forget which ones, maybe lemmy.world
This is always the cycle.
Reddit was like Lemmy at one point, a little gem of a website that you only knew about if you participated in online culture (which, before smartphones was not a lot of people). Then the masses learn about it and it gets destroyed because the system that made it good can’t scale to hundreds of millions of people.
So, now people ‘in the know’ move to the niche alternative. As the Fediverse continues to develop and gain users it will eventually undergo a similar phase transition when the population gets too high. You can already see it in popular communities on large instances, it’s nearly indistinguishable from Reddit’s comment section.
its too small a nd scattered to grow like reddit, i dont think it will reach the same as reddit anytime soon.
That’s fine with me.
Smaller communities where you can actually recognize people from other conversations are better, in my experience, and even the current Lemmy population satisfies my need to scroll random content and I don’t have to suffer through the advertisements and political outrage content being inserted into everything.
I think the Fediverse has the ability to branch out and grow in a more healthy way, but it’s yet to be seen
Im hoping this. I hope people learned and choose the better option instead of showboating for internet points. There’s other places to do that.
50% are bots, the rest are just on the verged of getting banned, or responding to misinformation/disinformation.polotics to keep the site going. eliminating actual users like us, seems to have a effect on reddit as of recently, no ORGANIC posts anymore.
It’s INSANE. The bot flooding started to become notably - and noticeably - bad around the time the API exodus happened. And it’s only accelerated. And most people seem to just be pretending it’s not even happening.
thats when AI’s started to make thier appearance around the same time.
The most prolific posters left and/or came here.
I used to comment 20+ times a day and was always looking for the best time to post my OC to get the most traction.
13 year account. Gone.
Couldn’t give 2 shits, Lemmy is way better.
Well, the humans anyway.
I heard r/lemmee was shut down funny as how threatened they feel.
Lmao what a joke. Glad I left that cesspool when I did.
Feels good knowing you aren’t on a burning ship.
tbh, not for me. I just feel disappointed
it used to be a great place with tons of information and a functional interface. nothing has really replaced it in terms of content and accessibility to the masses
I speculate it’s mostly Ouroboros style funding and phony metrics. Bots selling “engagement” to other bots is pretty profitable, I guess. At least for now. The only person I know who still openly uses reddit is an obnoxious drunk white woman in her 60s.
I wish more people converted over, but the user experience for the fediverse is very strange for many people, tech inclined folks I know included.
Okay so im new here and I can’t figure out how to view all communities in one spot on desktop. I can on mobile through the apps. Like reddit’s /r/popular
Select “All” instead of “Subscribed” or “Local”
Also !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca
Where else are people going besides here?
Probably a range of things. Like the fediverse is growing, but look at bluesky’s success. They forgo the real benefit of the structure, but people get a “just make a login” experience.
The kids are probably on something I don’t even know.
Blueksy is not comparable to Reddit though… not in structure, approach, or (initial) ideology.
The lack of active niche communities is frustrating.
Fair, but I did try for a while. Lemmy has a lot of “snipers” who don’t contribute anything more than condescending AKSHUALLY “corrections” or pure snark. You go into their history and that is 90% of what you see. I have blocked several. I think it’s leftover baggage and trauma from reddit. (I don’t consider your meme reply to be a snipe, hopefully that was not implied.)
People are scared and angry… Lemmy has definitely gotten much less friendly this last year
Yeah there’s some really angry people on here sometimes
I was just being thankful for the feature in Voyager to tag users. Just tagged a user exactly as you described as “Contrarian”.
None taken. Thanks for contributing.
I’d love to create a few niche places like the ones I enjoyed on reddit but when it comes to creating a community on Lemmy, the barrier to entry is steep for me. From what I understand I need an always-on storage medium to host and I don’t really have a spare device that I can reliably keep on 24/7 to host a community on here. I wish it were easier but that’s the nature of the beast I spose.
the problem is getting people to your community, some communities are quite a ghost town right now, most of them are on reddit.
You can create communities on an existing instance just by clicking “Create Community” in the top menu; no need to host anything yourself. At least you can on the instance I use; not sure about lemmy.world.
You only need a server if you want to run an entire instance (ex.
lemmy.world). Anyone can create a community on most instances.The graphics on this guide might help:
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
Thank you! I must have gotten instances and communities confused. Still getting used to the fediverse 😅
shit that reminds me to donate to the admin of my local instance
Are people still saying fuck spez? Because… fuck spez.
Last I checked, yes. Along with the image of him getting drilled by busty Garfield.
Do you still have that? For science
EDIT: Nevermind, 'twas in this very thread already
Yeah lol. It’s one of those things Spez hates, so deserves posting for that alone.
Fuck that asshole. No, Steve, this isn’t envy, it’s disgust.
We do we insist on creating these entitled special boys who don’t give shit about us?
Greedy little pig-boy ruined Reddit to get his. Fuck spez.
He’ll always be a greedy little pigboy
Billionaire he may be, but he remains a cunt
There is no justice. Aaron Schwarz is six feet underground while this pestilent boil of a man becomes a billionaire on the back of his achievements.
RIP Aaron
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