• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
    91·
    9 hours ago

    I think let me has less personal stories than read it because Lemmy isn’t infested by bots writing personal stories.

    Or copying personal stories from previous posts, and recycling them for votes.

    You underestimate the amount of bot activity on Reddit. Some threads on all are something like 70%+ bot comments, with most being at least half.

    It’s crazy.

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Dear Penthouse Forum reddit, I’m a 20 year-old college student and I never thought I’d be writing to the Penthouse Forum reddit, but…

    It’s the lowest common denominator of smut entertainment. The tech companies have managed to veil it all in prestige. It should be called gossip media or something.

    Instead people think there’s some kind of real human connection. Some kind of deep discussions happening.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    13 hours ago

    I think it might be the case for some, but mostly I think that more people on Lemmy are less focused on themselves and personal anecdotes. More often I see people here reaching for cited resources to support what they’re saying instead of “Oh one time my Uncle’s friend’s cousin…”. It still happens here, but not nearly in the same capacity from what I’ve seen.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 hours ago

    We don’t mind individual points for a story we like the feedback that people like our story, But most places aren’t even counting overall points. It’s not some reddit race to the top for who can have 300,000 karma. We’re here to actually chit chat and socialize and that’s just not conducive to throwing out a bunch of personal stories for shock and awe. Nobody is selling Lemmy accounts with 10,000 karma for bank.

  • YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    22·
    19 hours ago

    I know I am wary of doxxing myself, there’s so many times I’ve withheld commenting because my stories are too specific. I’ve probably shared too much already and do think about just starting over with a new account sometimes. This is my 4th account by now?

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      3·
      9 hours ago

      do think about just starting over with a new account sometimes.

      That’s just a good practice. Change the handle with some regularity but it does get annoying to set everything up each time

  • Desert Hermit@lemmy.world
    16·
    20 hours ago

    It might also be that out of 97 million daily active users, if 1/10th of 1% are attention-seeking crazies, that’s 97,000 people over-sharing at absurd levels.

  • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    21 hours ago

    Settinging asside the likelyhood that many personal stories there are fantacy. There are just fewer people on this platform and probably the many new people from the last little bit are still testing the waters.

    But primarily, I think nowadays people understand that if they put their data online anywhere, there is a chance someone could use it against them. Hence, people here are not doing it as much.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    361·
    1 day ago

    My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you’re watching this tape, I’m probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was… astounded, I… I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was… thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn’t want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a “hit” on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I’m a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can’t take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I… All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      16·
      1 day ago

      Many of the exaggerated stories are fiction. But there are plenty of Redditors posting pictures of things they saw locally and other information which some could consider sensitive.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
          8·
          1 day ago

          Don’t get me wrong, I was referencing those too. In general, when I visited Reddit there were a lot of personal stories and pictures. These can often provide a unique pov which is not found in the news.

          Lemmy is more a forum where people discuss the news. The comments are far more advanced and interesting than Reddit. But because people (including me) are far more privacy minded, I feel like they rarely post personal experiences. This might be an unfixable dillemma.

    • gitgud@lemmy.ml
      20·
      1 day ago

      I suspect some are AI and others may be creative writing exercises. Some portion are probably real.

  • Glent@lemmy.ca
    64·
    1 day ago

    Pffft. James Astonberry here. 1229 pike road canton ohio, 81598. 651-829-4323. Pleased to meet you.

    J/K totally pulled that outta me arse. To answer your question I personally keep identifying info to a bare minimum everywhere online. Especially with AI coming online and putting puzzle pieces together.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    192·
    1 day ago

    People that have the need to share “personal stories” with basically strangers are looking for an audience first and foremost. Lemmy has way fewer people so the type of person trying to seek that attention will be going to facebook/twitter/reddit etc. If Lemmy was one of the top-ten most used sites, then we’d see a lot more of that kind of content.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
      13·
      1 day ago

      Also, people who freely share details about their personal lives are generally not as particular about social media platforms. They’re likely to use whichever one they have heard of the most, or the one on which they already have an account, like Reddit. Lemmy is far from mainstream, so they’re not likely to think of it first, if they have heard of it at all.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    18·
    1 day ago

    I’d say more likely just:

    • Not enough users to see that many stories being posted
    • Not that many users to make it worth sharing detailled stories
    • Lack of communities for that kind of content

    You’re just not gonna see a lot of tales from retail in a place dominated by chronically online people, engineers, nerds and somewhat older userbase.