• jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s gonna die like Digg or Fark … Which are still around, but shells of their former selves. TBH most normal folks haven’t even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I disagree with you on how well known Reddit is, it’s been mentioned in enough news stories over the years that most people have heard of it, even if they’ve never been there.

    • IAmNotACat@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      AI means Reddit will always look alive at a glance.

      Like you still get some people complaining that lemmy isn’t active enough for them to leave Reddit, even though they’re just hanging out with bots all day.

    • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Since about 2018, I’ve gotten the sense that most internet users know about Reddit, but are embarrassed to admit they know about Reddit.

  • davepleasebehave@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I miss the IMDB discussions under each film…

    Was great to finish a film and have a question or and ideas and be able to talk about it.

  • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Whenever I stumble on reddit I make sure to post disinformation or some kind of dumb shit to throw a wrench into the LLM training data they sell to google.

      • answersplease77@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I just got another one today for “harassment” of zionism in r/worldnews. Reddit cannot hold a free discussion and they know it. They can’t even let you speak to expose their bullshit, and permaban you when you do.

        I can you show you the comment which got me banned. I was literally asking questions which they know the answer for but censor intentionally because they are bought and controlled by awful groups directly linked to the IDF themselves. They have a division who train and employe teens as stupid Hasbara trolls who don’t know history and unable to hold a discussion.

        • Comment105@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          My first one was in response to some rich cunt who went on air to say more or less that poverty was a good thing because then people had something to strive to avoid, so I said something along the lines of “This guy should be shot, I’m not even exaggerating.”

            • Comment105@lemm.ee
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              2 months ago

              Yeah, usually made a couple, lost those as well, gave them a while, and I’d be able to make one I could keep again. Not sure if they had anyone manually looking at it.

              Haven’t had a main account for years. Never maintained multiple alts either. Just constantly replacing.

              I still engaged a lot in earnest, but I sometimes leaned heavily on sarcasm and became incredibly flippant about the site and all the people on it. Really stopped valuing keeping my account.

              I noticed that every time I commented on anything in r/pcgaming, I think it was, I was banned quickly. I think some subreddits do their own “security” seemed pretty fast and consistent, maybe automatic. Talking about a few hours or so.

      • ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I hate to ruin this for you, but if you post nonsense, it will get downvoted by humans and excluded from any data set (or included as examples of what to avoid). If it’s not nonsensical enough to be downvoted, it still won’t do well vote wise, and will not realistically poison any data. And if it’s upvoted… it just might be good data. That is why Reddit’s data is valuable to Google. It basically has a built in system for identifying ‘bad’ data.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I miss moot. Back when 4channers didn’t take themselves seriously.

          Right now, mainstream internet needs 4chan to deflect their own issues onto even though they all have the exact same people using it.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching.

      Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don’t dredge its depths or even know “the hacker named 4chan” exists, but it has been a massively influential force.

      • Omniraptor@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        imo redditors and 4channers think too highly of themselves if they believe they have real influence on elections. Most people aren’t online (except for Facebook), and politics are much more readily explained by material causes such as the Dems fcking up the post 2008 economic recovery and going for austerity instead of investment. The biggest proximate cause (non-material/economic) cause is just that hilldawg ran a bad campaign that didn’t focus enough on swing states (but she won the popular vote, congratulations).

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        There have been dark corners of the internet for several decades now. 4chan is just one. Trump didn’t achieve popularity because of it. There aren’t enough users, and there certainly aren’t enough politically and economically influential users, for that to be true.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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      2 months ago

      I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

      There’s a key difference, at least when it comes to hating Reddit.

      Most [all?] users here have actual, informed reasons to hate Reddit, from past experiences with the site. They aren’t simply joining some bandwagon due to social expectations to bend to the crowd.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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          2 months ago

          Yes, it is. I don’t disagree with thetreesaysbark and you on that.

          However I think that a circlejerk formed by similar-minded individuals gathering into the same place is far, far more benign than your “typical” circlejerk revolving around social pressure.

          Also, let us [humans in general] not fool ourselves into believing that circlejerks are avoidable. Humanity boils down to “circlejerking hairless chimps” anyway.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Except… it looks like people did start posting. So the users were crowded out by bots before and they’re posting now. That just shows that Reddit isn’t dead, but it does have too many bots.

      I mean, I’m sure many people here wish there was more non-bot content. It’s annoying to see something on Reddit and come back here and see the same thing.

      • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Saw a stat the other day, and I can’t speak to accuracy. But the claim was that like 58% I think of all content online is bots.

    • Buttflapper@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.

      Asking people to post on their sub is fuckin hilarious to me. Like that’s some major, pressing issue in anyone’s life.

      “Sorry, I can’t hang out today. Wholesome Memes subreddit needs me to post there! I’m doing it for the shareholders! Without them, reddit would never survive!”

      Like… Is this how he expected that to go…???

      • scbasteve7@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        If you read it, the mod certainly didn’t beg. They just mentioned that they’re still blocking bots and to not be discouraged from posting original content.

        Also I find it highly doubtful that the mods of that subreddit are concerned about shareholders. Why would a mod care about money when they’re not even getting paid? They most likely just care about keeping the community alive.

        Not to take away the point. Which I think is something most Lemmy users have realized ages ago, reddit is so full of repost bots that it makes gallowboob look like a saint. So much in fact that after two days, not a single original post has occurred in a subreddit with a reported 17 million followers.

        • Buttflapper@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Why would a mod care about money when they’re not even getting paid?

          Better question, why the hell are they volunteering for free to moderate a paid multimillion dollar publicly traded company? The mods on Reddit have a God complex. They literally think that if they don’t do what they do then the entire website would fall apart. Like a nurse in a hospital. It’s insane

  • Stern@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    bans controversial subreddits

    They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s

  • duckduckohno@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.

  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It was dead to me over here until you posted about it. Want a reddit hate circle jerk updoot buddy?

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn’t always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

    • Daxtron2@startrek.website
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      2 months ago

      It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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      2 months ago

      You still have to filter through bots posing as real people replies on some posts high in google results

    • Wave@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Except companies have learned the meta, and now a bunch of search queries for Reddit are filled with ads on Reddit. (not to mention you have to use google to get their results now.)

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Eh, I still get Reddit results through DDG. They may not be fresh, but they seem to still be in the index, and honestly, that’s fine because I only really care about the older content.