It’s difficult for me to give any less of a shit about Reddit. I’m perfectly happy with Lemmy.
We are so irrelevant that cryptoscam bots don’t target us 🎉
Mac users know that feel
"You’re a fat little girl, aren’t you Mac?
“Nooooo”
“SAY IT!”
“I’m a fat little girl”
Cryptoscam bots don’t target us yet!
Nah we just have regular old crypto shill people instead
It’s been a hard habit to break after 15 years, but I’m getting there.
Luckily for me reddit made it easy by killing 3rd party apps and I only ever browsed it with RiF.
Same, when the app I used stopped working, I tried the reddit default one and bailed out after like 5 minutes of using that ad riddled shitpile
RIP Apollo.
Same haven’t been back since I joined lemmy in June.
I still have it installed and even though it doesn’t and will never work, I still like to open it, and have it once again try to retrieve posts only to return “forbidden”. I do it for old time’s sake, like a digital pouring one out for RIF and the Reddit I used to know.
They have yet to kill old, but I assume it’s coming, and there’s no way I’m tolerating the new interfaces.
I still have to google search reddit when I’m looking for specific info like opinions on games. Unfortunately lemmy’s not reasonable to search, and Reddit has a much bigger userbase with a longer time to accumulate info about most topics.
Same here
Reddit just that niche 3 sentences of extremely specific scenarios I need
The best way I’ve found to search lemmy and kbin is using trystract.com with the discussions optic.
I always enjoy a bit of schadenfreude in the morning.
Agreed. Fuck Reddit
Went to reddit to see what the top posts were. Not much has changed.
“I kicked a puppy. AITA?”
“Gang of teens beat up an elderly homeless guy. Not ragebait.”
“What are you favorite dating tips? Help me write my fluff article.”
So the same shit as here, except for the “look at how bad Reddit is now” posts?
99% of lemmy posts are reposts from reddit.
There is currently a top voted Lemmy post that says “netflix lost 200k users, crackdown backfired”. It is a repost that was on reddit yesterday.
Netflix gained 5.9 million users in the same period. Lemmy users are just as woke as redditors.
The API kerfuffle finally gave us the critical mass ofbusers to make it viable, and it’s only uphill from here
I mean… I like seeing that it’s clearly going way down hill and fast.
The enshittification is nearing completion.
Sphincter 1 or sphincter 2?
Unrelated, but has anyone noticed that almost all posts and comments have at least one downvote?
When you have a platform with multiple millions of people, everyone is gonna be hated by someone
On reddit? Vote % is fuzzed a little to prevent spambots or something.
On lemmy I haven’t noticed that
This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.
The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.
Every day the Dead Internet theory looks more and more correct.
What that is?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.[1][2][3][4] These intelligent bots are assumed to have been made, in part, to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to ultimately manipulate consumers.[5] Further, proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception.[1] The date given for this “death” is generally around 2016 or 2017.
Good bot
Lol
Bots are created to generate media and web content as filler, not as a conspiracy. It’s not government lead, it’s done by social media users, media/news organizations, and others.
However, there are how many billions online? Internets not dead.
Never heard of it before either, but here’s an article on it
Essentially GW from Metal Gear Solid 2
MASSIVE METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SPOILERS AHEAD
deleted by creator
“Crypto scam” is a redundant term. Find better interests.
This isn’t infuriating at all. Where’s my !schadenfreude community?
Be the change you want to see in the fediverse
“Nah I’d rather just sit back and silently upvote while someone else provides the content / comments”
So many threads have tons of upvotes but less than 10 comments
Man you have no idea how annoying it is to dredge up enough effort to post comments and shit. Take it from me, a former 100% lurker on reddit
I find that having a really shit take on something tends to get even passive people talking, but I worry about the long-term effects of generating conversation that way.
The same crypto scam, must be a bot army
Man, it’s almost like we warned them this would happen
Stop going to Reddit?
I’m sorry op, I tried to summon all of my fucks, but alas, there were none to give
Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren
Spez can drown in the shitpile he’s created
nazi digg deserves it.
Gross
Shit like this is why people will leave reddit and never come back.
We are even more vulnerable here… hopefully the scammers come slowly enough that we can develop effective defenses without scaring away our users.
More like mildlyexpected
WTF kinda subs are you subbed to, dude?
And their new Elmo-like system to pay mods will make this type of spam worse as mods will be incentivized to allow this crap.
Is there even payment? I was under the impression it was simply digital awards similar to what is already on user profiles. It seems like it only affects the modsupport subreddit. Is there something I missed?
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/reddit-mod-helper-program-update-moderation-protest/
What are they doing now? I must have missed that news because that sounds wild
