!fedigrow@lemm.ee - let’s get small communities to thrive on a sillicon valley free platform <3

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  • I’m sure you can find more examples. I’m already tapped out of that bot factory.

    Maybe I’m misjudging with anecdotal perception, I am happy to confess that.

    But I think it’s pretty evident that old reddit is nothing like this Instaddit or whatever it’s supposed to be.

    Do you still find r-word platform as satisfying? And have you not encountered suspect comments like these at all there?

    (I mean even unsuspecting ones could be bots, here too, but let’s at least start cultivating some damage control)


  • That’s why I framed it the way that the commenter or at least responses have to call those out

    This topic of dead internet theory was an immediate thought of mine.

    Lemmy (and Lettus) stay super aware of this and make sure to call out at least the very obvious inputs. Another thought would be to even maybe moderate it and remove such content that are obvious set phrases by AI

    On that note I’ve even read on a German news post that on Instagram for example 80% of inputs are bots. Like imagine all those fake conversations with potential agendas on the other hand…








  • Id just love to see more corporations being like Mondragon(spanish) in the top ranks (i.e. stock corpos) but I would not want governments specifically to gain ownership forcefully.

    So I’d call it regulated capitalism - as you said, just not paleo libertarian laissez-faire as we clearly see how that doesnt work once all markets are established (and even the competition phase was, as we all should know, pretty questionable historically cough imperialism cough)









  • It’s way too frustrating to deal with.

    Exaaactly!!

    They put in so much effort to stop bots (restricting new accounts alot: read experiences how they wont directly let you know that stuff isnt loading anymore, read about hidden scores and also I remember years back in the beginning how confusing and weird the system was towards me with errors not allowing to post being “unavailable”, etc)

    And then, they dont offer any supports like ticket systems for actual humans to apply and seek dialogue. (I mean they do, but its all automated responses into complete support restriction after deny without any non-automated input)

    They really dont care about the users. And its has the same silicon valley agenda behind it. Especially with the accumulated changes to algorithms. It seems so based on baiting user’s interaction rather than seeking genuine connection and helpfulness

    And its shocking how hidden this issue is on reddit. And people talking about reddit: all criticism you hear is how its a bubble (esp politically used). But nobody talks about how crazy the handling of users is. I literally been seperated.

    Maybe thats the essence of mentioned bubble issue in disguise after all




  • Ye im still somewhat looking into reddit (also to just realize what similar communities I should follow here)

    There’s just so many whack websites as basis for discussion. Like newsgeek or other tabloids and people act like it’s the most official matter.

    Feels like everyone only reads the headline and starts mashing their keyboards. And your reception tends to be less text = lie. The recent behavior and interaction feels similar to today’s Twitter in terms of rage induction, just for nerds