• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    37·
    10 months ago

    chugs down cool, refreshing, non-exploitative Lemmy.

    Oh man, you guys still drink those pisswater flavors?

    • Skyrkazm@lemmy.world
      16·
      10 months ago

      I sometimes go back to reddit to see what’s happening to it. Yup. It’s shitting itself.

      Bot accounts everywhere in both comments and posts. It’s so common in fact that you just need to scroll a small post to figure out either OP or the commenter is a bot. also chugs Lemmy

      Thankfully, Lemmy knows how to pump us full of bot-free content and have us asking for more.

        • Butterpaderp@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          Go to any major post on reddit, especially crusty old reposts, and the thread will be filled with one sentence replies. Stuff that’s so generic it makes you fall asleep reading it, or just cringe from the fake enthusiasm. Sometimes there’s really good comments, but its because it was scraped from the comment section of the last time the image or meme was reposted. Sometimes, the comment will have nothing to do with anything at all because the bot had bad data. It’s kinda wild how awful some of the comment sections have gotten lately on there.

          My personal theory on why bots are rampant now is a twofer. One reason being people leaving the platform, because of reddit api bs, or because of subs shutting down to protest, etc. And the other reason is that some folks are trying to get back at reddit by spamming bots, increasing how many there are.

        • Skyrkazm@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 months ago

          A quick rundown.

          Basically they make a reddit account, let it age like milk. You know, keep it in the basement with 0 post history of any kind for half a year or so. Maybe multiple. Than they activate it, it spam posts, and it never responds to users like a human would. Even stealing comments and such.

          Those are the main symptoms. OP not responding to being called a bot is especially the major red flag most use.

          Edit: When I say OP, I’m using it to refer to reddit users in this case. Not the OP of THIS post. For him, thank you for the laughs:)

    • Grammaton Cleric@lemmy.world
      163·
      10 months ago

      Same assholes are here, in a smaller community, which makes their voices louder.

      But thank god there’s no targeted ads!

      • Sho@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        I have come across a few profiles that are just here to be trolls, but not many.

        • JokeDeity
          2·
          10 months ago

          I mean, I’m no tankie by any means, but capitalism is awful and absolutely the reason so much shit has gotten worse and worse.

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      chugs down cool, refreshing, non-exploitative Lemmy.

      Dang, wish it came in a large.

  • unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    10 months ago

    A search engine returned a link that pointed to Reddit and i went to check it out and it was like woah there partner you have to create an account and login. That fucking platform is steadily becoming a huge pain in the ass. They will probably want us all to verify who we are with a photo id before long.

    • JokeDeity
      1·
      10 months ago

      The only time I go to Reddit now is when I’m looking for an answer on a search engine, I have a few addons from when I used it regularly that seem to be circumventing that particular bullshit still.

      • jopepa@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        Fuck it let him blow all of his money on the zeitgeist machines. Meanwhile, all of you beautiful bastards will build the fediverse until it’s undeniably better in every way. These growing pains are the worst but it’s essential.

      • JokeDeity
        1·
        10 months ago

        My favorite thing about his dumbass name change is that you still have to go to Twitter.com because he can’t get X.com. Also the fact that it’s not even the first time he’s called a company X. Considering his child’s name, I think he’s just obsessed with the letter, and frankly of the alphabet, it’s probably the most edgelord letter there is.

  • awwwyissss
    10·
    10 months ago

    I heard Huffman and Musk spoke about what they’re doing with their networks. Apparently Huffman liked Musk’s approach, maybe they’re coordinating the enshittification.

    • jopepa@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      These platforms were essential tools for free thinking and organizing that’s a threat to the people on top of the heap. I think “maybe” is an understatement.

      Inside of a year the front page of the internet became a mailer coupon book, and the global town square had a cybertruck drive through the crowd. The fediverse isn’t where we need it to be, yet, but it’s the only way to secure these tools from the kinds of people that want to control them.

      Fuck Google, too, for good measure.

  • JokeDeity
    2·
    10 months ago

    TBH Twitter was never that good to begin with, the concept is shit, the UI is shit and the features are shit. At least Reddit had a good stretch of time and still has some valuable old posts.