• Deez@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    This was great, read all of his posts and subscribed. Cheers for sharing!

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    23 hours ago

    The sequel is way funnier than this post, the people over at hackernews really take themselves too seriously lmao.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    This is largely the problem with most social media, and generative AI has made this problem worse just like it has made other pretty terrible facets of human interactions worse.

    Anyone who was paying attention on reddit the last couple years (even pre-pandemic) could see that bots were taking over. The main difference (love mods or hate them) was that mods who’s subreddits didn’t rely on bot content to stay active were moderating the bot problem as best they could.

    Now, most of those mods aren’t mods anymore and the vast majority only really want the engagement anyway so of course they’ll let bots basically take over.

    Reddit the corp never cared about keeping bots off the platform and they care even less now. Bot engagement counts. Bot views of ads count. Removing bots actively hurts their bottom line in the short term so of course they aren’t going to do anything with that.

    The actual human users on Reddit don’t care because they’re there to consume. It doesn’t matter to them if the posts they engage with are made by bots or not.

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      14 hours ago

      they have been actively culling human users for months now, leaving mostly bots.

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    24 hours ago

    Meaning you’re insane now right? Who would want to read a insane’s ramblings?

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    23 hours ago

    Reddit is full of Karma farmers.

    I still use Reddit for the funny videos and nieche communities I don’t get on Lemmy. But I have to constantly block accounts because they are blatantly farming. Super annoying.

    I usually block every account that’s reposting and has more than 100k Karma.

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    1 day ago

    At least something is happening there. Look around Lemmy. No bots, no humans, no posts, no life.