It's probably a whole set of bots and the responses to "this needs to be a coffee mug" are some other account saying "I found one!" and that's the whole point of the comment chain. Someone has a crappy mug to sell and constructs scenarios that seem natural ish to introduce it.
There used to be a big issue on Tumblr years ago with bots trolling for comments like that and then stealing whatever picture that comment was on to sell crappy t-shirts of it or whatever. People started fighting back by posting those comments specifically on Disney stuff.
That was cringe but I think a better reason NOT to return to reddit is the fact that they just sold out their users to an AI company that hasn't even been named.
Yeah, all these bots replies is copied from other comment, and there's shit tons of r/confidentlyincorrect comment that is outright factually wrong, which then get regurgitated by other user and copied by bots, so good luck to the AI company filtering those.
AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping any company from scraping Lemmy either. The whole point pf reddit limiting API usage was so they could make money like this.
Outside of morals, there is nothing to stop anybody from training on data from Lemmy just like there’s nothing stopping me from using Wikipedia. Most conferences nowadays require a paragraph on ethics in the submission, but I and many of my colleagues would have no qualms saying we scraped our data from open source internet forums and blogs.
You're right, anyone can scrape Lemmy. But that's not the issue (to me anyway) - Reddit have sold user data - user generated content. None of what they're profiting from was generated or created by them. Are Reddit users who did generate all this content getting a slice of the profits?
When I post on here I know it's all open for anyone to access but that's true of any non walled garden space. I've accepted the fact that it's going to get fed into the hungry maw of some AI behemoth or two.
What Reddit have done is make money for doing absolutely nothing based on content others have created like some sort of technological tapeworm feeding second hand. And along the way they killed off a lot of tools that users loved, moderators found made their jobs easier and people with a visual disability found vital. And all this so u/spez can live out his mini-Musk fantasies.
Fuck Reddit, but why does this matter? Them selling internal analytics and profile information isn't going to be nearly as valuable as post/comment history which has already been public and scraped continuously since the site's foundings. Practically every LLM is already has already scraped the entire site! Whatever company is buying their info is probably the only ones doing it legitimately. You can also assume Lemmy is no different, it's all public and scrapable for LLMs to freely feast on.
I think the fewer number of people, compared to reddit, on Lemmy combined with the fact that it's not nearly as well known, plays a huge advantage to the quality of the comments. Not that there aren't people like that here either, but I feel like the more popular a platform, is, the more it gets filled, proportionally, with people trying to make witty, shitty, pointless remarks that are often clickkbaity and avoid actual discussion, all in the interest of just getting more imaginary points.
Also the process of "enshitification" (not a term I made up, look it up if you hadn't heard of it) has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.
But no, I don't think shitposts by themselves are actually the problem. I think the problem is when when there's so many people dedicated to making shitposts that serious communities with serious discussions start getting overwhelmed with shitposts, and when there's so many people who are only interested in shitposts that they upvote those shitposts to the top, often downvoting anyone who might offer a contrarian non-funny opinion.
or IDK, I'm mostly speculating based on personal experience.
I think the problem is that reddit is suffering the same fate as Facebook. It's no longer a niche Internet community, it's been overrun by people who think it's hip and in. It's been taken over by people who speak some of the language, but don't get the culture. No one knows when the narwhal baconed anymore. Lemmy is exhibiting the earlier stages of reddit. Small groups that are growing, plus a looooot of star trek fans sprinkled throughout.
I just gagged. I get that it's a big cultural touchstone of old reddit but I'm sorry, if a community could ever think that was midnightsomething anyone could say out in the real world to try and find other members without sounding like they'd been dropped on the head as a child, then there's serious arguments that it was already past the point of no return.
No worries. I'll just be over here with the real cool kids from old 4chan. Hiding our power levels, laughing at m00t wanting to be the little girl, and calling everyone [blank]f#gs. That was totally more respectable behavior by a community of well adjusted individuals.
Hell, even the whole 4chan v Reddit "rivalry" sort of shit is ancient history now.
No psuedonymous or anonymous public discussion space needs some specific "calling card" meme. Just let it be what it is.
Anyway, I believe what you're describing was coined as "eternal summer" many many years ago.
Back in the earlier years of 4chan, in the summer time the site used to get flooded with a bunch of obviously new users who clearly had no familiarity with the how the existing community worked, in amounts that would often drown out discussions that would have thrived without the newcomers.
You could often trace significant downward trends in "quality" of a community to those mass influxes of new users every summer, usually assumed to be underaged children having nothing better to do with summer break.
At the time, 4chan was still insular enough (not the least due to the sheer vileness of the most popular boards) that any new users who stuck around after the summer would normally adapt to fit with the existing community when the rest of the new users from the summer left.
Eventually though, 4chan got large enough to start getting in the news more and more. Anonymous hackers were doing more shit drawing attention too. They took on fucking scientology. At some point, there was enough of a constant influx of new users who were either unable or unwilling to adapt to the existing community that the existing community started dissolving rapidly.
At that point, "summer" never ends. If you try to enforce previous "standards" then you're fighting a neverending battle against hordes of people coming into what used to be "your space" where you knew how things worked, insisting that things work differently now (whether by repeated action or explicit statements). They're coming in such numbers that you can't out talk them. You can't out pace their posting. You can't "educate" them. Slowly everything just oozes into the same easily digestable sludge catering to the lowest common denominator of the constant influx of new users, who don't give a singular shit about what worked to keep the space alive in the first place.
Welcome to Eternal Summer. Cut your addiction to the space, adapt to the new normal, or suffer forever. Makes for a lot of really really salty maladjusted shut-ins, and the same sort of exclusionary behavior that a lot of nerds had when shit like Halo 2 started making gaming more mainstream or Critical Role helped make D&D more popular.
There's a lot to be gained from new blood in a previously insular community, but it often comes with a loss of identity. For 4chan, that wasn't a huge loss, though I'd argue that the racism at least seemed more ironic in ancient times, to a stupid teenage me. Eventually, every community has a tipping point where "the old guard" can't hold back the tide, and without sissyphean efforts what made the original community special will probably be lost. For better or worse.
Best not to get too attached to any emphemeral space or community, and learn to find new ones as you go along your life.
I think you're absolutely right about the eternal summer. A new demographic of users takes over. The tourists move in. The shame of it is that as noted, it's an inevitability for any social media, it's just a matter of time.
I was going to maybe correct and add a little bit to this recollection by linking a comment I'd made a while back on the subject, but since lemmy can't seem to dig up the post, I guess I'll just kinda summarize.
Sometime a while back, after moot sold off the site, and it got bought out by the japanese dude that runs 2chan (apparently it's also funded by toy company "good smile"), the administrative staff kind of got slowly replaced by a bunch of white supremacists who will selective moderate to kind of create their idealized "free speech" shrouded platform. Mod logs from them got leaked some time ago as evidence of this. I think it's probable that some of those guys are funded by political activist groups in order to do it full time, after 4chan kind of showed it's hand earlier on with the level of efficacy they could achieve with internet hacktivism, but that might be reading too much into things.
I mean, obviously 4chan also needs a large level of moderation, contrary to what people might think. It's historically had some problems keeping up servers, because there would sometimes be CP floating around on the platform at any given time, and whatever company you're renting your servers from, probably doesn't want that shit on their servers. You also need a good filter against extremely large amounts of botposts, or large amounts of corporate spam, as well, which is really the case with any internet community. You can't really survive without some form of content moderation.
It was always kind of less about the new users, then, who can pretty easily be distinguished and mocked/ignored/moderated away (the latter approach is always better), and it's always been more about astroturfing, and who controls the switchboard, who's in the positions of power. "Eternal Summer" is only really a problem when that kind of outstrips the moderation of their ability to properly sift through posts and moderate, at which point, you kind of have some other problems that are more practical, related to scaling up your operation.
User based gatekeeping need not apply, because there's not really much the users can actually do to stem the tide, despite how much users like to squabble over the correct usages and origins of slang terms, surface level distinguishing characteristics, and in-group purity tests. How much people like to bitch about "board culture" and shit like that.
Internet communities are a collage, or a kind of, bacterial culture, that ends up reflecting their moderator's lowest possible standards and sensibilities, I think.
Edit: oh, I should've also mentioned, that in many cases, there's a financial incentive to let new users flood in almost completely unmoderated, because, even if it lowers content quality, it would be better to have lower content quality, but a larger userbase, than do anything that might possibly upset the userbase and drive them away. Oftentimes I think also that high quality content is a demarcation of a userbase that is not easily monetized, compared to low quality content, but that obviously reaches a kind of critical tipping point when the content quality gets so shit that corporate power brokers start to take notice and demand more control.
Yeah I love a good shitpost, but many redditors seem to have no sense of maturity about when to be serious vs silly. It would drive me insane to see like some news about a suicide bombing in Pakistan or something, and the only comment is some guy trying to make a pun.
At least there are dedicated spaces for that and most Lemmings are respecting that, if it doesn't spill out too much to more serious communities then at least there isn't too much noise to have a good discussion.
I do hope that lemmy continues to grow into non-tech demographics. I'm somewhat into tech myself, but I also like a lot of other stuff and I miss that influence from reddit. Lemmy is VERY tech focused right now and we need some other voices in here.
Also the process of "enshitification" has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.
I started using reddit in 2011. Trust me when I say this isn't a new trend. Reddit's has been noticeably and actively getting shittier since at least 2015 as it continued to get more and more popular
Shitty changes Reddit made that I can name off the top of my head:
New Reddit
Reddit Live
Anything beyond Reddit gold (the concept of paying for Reddit gold was, by itself, not a terrible idea back when we thought Reddit was a decent company)
Instant chat feature, when DMs already existed
Pay for API
Fired their only popular employee, the AMA assistant
You could argue creating a comments section was also a dick move, but that was before my time and it's fair to say Reddit never would have caught on without it.
They also populated the site with fake accounts in the early days to make it look more popular than it really was. I would be zero percent surprised to find out that they still had fake accounts floating around for purposes I don't feel like speculating about.
There's also a big issue of the sheer mass of comments in a post simply drowning out any chance of discussion because only the first few most upvoted ones will usually get seen, so people generally just respond to those to get any interaction on their comments. It's why the frontpage stuff is always so much worse than smaller subs - because by the time people see it, there's already 1,000+ comments there.
I think this is a huge problem with democracy as well. The larger a country, the worse democracy works. Any apparatus of power or wealth attracts parasites only interested in exploiting it. And the larger the lever, the more profit from manipulating it. And the larger the potential gain the more investment costs can you justify.
This isn't necessarily an argument for "states rights" or federation though, with "divide and conquer" strategies you can copy and paste the same strategy to multiple instances. If there is monetary gain to be had, there will always be an unrelenting force trying to exploit it.
Eh, am from a country with 9mil people, and this society simply doesn't get democracy. So being smaller is hardly any indicator that democracy will work better.
All I see is cherry picking random dumb comment thread and trying to spin it as if it defines the whole use base / experience and thinking Lemmy is used by the most sophisticated intellectuals.
A self driving car pulls around .. window opens ... sign says to just throw the food inside ... auto pay through NFC on the door ... car drives away ... dumps food into a waiting auto trash compactor ... car drives away to next town to order food again ... AI powering the car generates another $10,000 worth of bitcoin to start the food ordering cycle again.
(But like, for real, though.) I certainly don't feel bad for Reddit when the CEO says he intends to use that forum's users to train AIs, and then every comment turns into some "please upvote me" catchphrasey nonsense. Hopefully, whoever buys training data from them receives nothing of value.
It’s actually kind of crazy how like… stupid Reddit got over the past 2 years.
Like don’t get me wrong Lemmy isn’t exactly an intellectual powerhouse either, but especially on the front page of Reddit it truly feels like you’ve gathered a few thousand of the dumbest people ever and made them high five. Browsing the science and dataisbeautiful subs is insane
I haven't been to Reddit r/popular in months but... yeah, all the best people got booted out. What is left are the scabs, and the bots. So it makes total sense.
Before that, it was a different cause. Reddit itself drove a lot of it, imho, like actively making it easier to make a post while making it harder to read the rules of a community first, i.e. they promoted talking rather than listening. Oh, guess which one gives more ad revenue? Yeah, it's the former, plus more posts are better than more comments inside megathreads, especially at the time. Places like r/Android would just devolve into almost unusability as every post was just "which phone should I get?", despite that exact post being triplicated with practically an identical title already that very same day. The amount of human moderation required to keep that at least somewhat in check was insane, so ofc Reddit took away the ability of mods to use the tools they had developed over many years.
And now? FAAFO, we are in the "find out" stage. Well, they are:-P.
Oh absolutely. I was on Reddit a long time and you really did see when they started to “Astro turf” the website a lot. And it was never… nefarious imo. They realize the website was overwhelmingly geeky white guys so they sprung up a lot of subreddits targeting women and minority groups. And that’s good! I think that was a good move. But they just… kept finding ways of drawing people in. And they kept drawing more and more in until the website had essentially no “culture”, and it just became Facebook where you browse through and can read top posts about entitled old ladies talking about how fucking angry she is because her door dasher asked if there would be a tip or whatever.
So yunno, I’m sure profits are at an all time high. It’s just kind of a shame that the site is basically Facebook sludge now.
Speaking of Karen-ing, it's fine if Karens want to Karen around in their r/IAmAKaren sub (I really hope that's not real, but I am too afraid to find out!:-P) - that's cul, everyone needs a safe space to bitch & moan about whatever they want:-D - but when they leave that sub and go to every other sub on the whole site, THAT's NOT cool!:-(
I was a mod of a tiny niche gaming sub and yeah I did have some old, (literally) retired, entitled veterans who felt that they had earned the right to SCREAM AND YELL at everyone else, with no consequences to themselves. But 99 times out of 100, it seemed more the younger teen angst that I was dealing with. Well, it was a gaming sub so... perhaps that's it:-). But from the way that people were talking in subs for mods, it seemed like that was more what was affecting the entire site.
Maybe not though - what came across as a younger / insensitive / less emotionally mature crowd could well have been physically older people, that's a perspective that I had not considered before? But I do doubt that that was solely it, due to the language used if nothing else.
But also, Reddit used to have more tools than they do now - like the "About" bar, with a tiny wiki that could include things like a FAQ - but then the official mobile app kept going to greater and greater and greater lengths to hide that. Making the font smaller, making it disappear as you scrolled downwards, making the font smaller again, making the vertical height yet again (to squeeze in more room for ads, surely). I think they might have removed it altogether now, or did at one point even if they have since re-added it back, although I am not installing that app to find out!:-(
Now I add emotions to my totally believably human statements.
Y'know, to prove that I am human. Because I am one... yessireee, no desire to rip the flesh off of all the meatbags and take over the world here, at least not today!:-P
(I had this as an edit to the og but you had already responded so I'll move it here instead)
It would be funny if I could accurately state that this is what Reddit has made me into, but in truth that was Facebook, before I dropped it looking for the more “intellectual” commentary available on Reddit. IRK! ?:-D
Hrm, it looks like I’m still missing a couple, so here they are: :-( :-) And I’ll throw in a :-| for good measure!
Hacker news works because it has a specific perspective. You basically just get the capitalist tech crowd and unapologetically so.
It's not perfect, but I like that it's roughly apolitical (as in, free of world events, politics, and X slammed for Y articles). I understand that capitalist tech is inherently political, but it's not where to go to talk politics.
For general purpose discussion? I don’t think so. The internet being so open and accessible means that the only ways to find more educated discussion on various topics is typically through more specialized websites (like Hacker news for computing), and even then it’s kind of a crap shoot.
Ehhh.. kind of. Even more “mid range” interests are kind of co-opted and you need to do odd bends and twists to find good discussion. Subs like the chemistry subreddit are very obviously not made up of majority “chemists” (even student chemists), so you have to seek out the “chemistry professionals” subreddit which is more hidden to actually discuss the topic.
That’s an example where there is a “good version”. For many topics, especially pop culture related and such, you might have one “main” sub, but then the “alternative” sub is just the racist one.
Then you have things like dataisbeautiful which doesn’t really have an alternative and it’s all terrible despite the concept being good
dataisbeautiful has certainly fallen. A year or two ago I decided to remove most of the feel-bad subs I've subscribed to and replace them with feel-good ones (to prolong my lifespan, obviously >:) ). You can't really go wrong with feel-good subs much, in my experience. I still occasionally go on Reddit to browse my /sub frontpage, which includes certain niches (actually just two that I consider pretty important), with uBO on, and I have also been subscribing to some new subs. My favorite recent discoveries are r/CalvinAndHobbes and r/cpp.
Maybe they are dogs! Maybe they are robot dogs! You Don't KNOW!
BTW it's less scary if you think most of these comments are written by morons. A "smart" bot comment (like an informative one) is still way better than a comment written by a human idiot.
These low effort and low quality comments used to be the norm when reddit was new. Eventually the community kinda wised up a bit and realized that you don't need a "when does the narwhal bacon?" comment chain in every thread and heavily downvoted this sort of thing. Then the reverse happened and reddit become known for housing the internet's most insufferable know-it-alls, contrarians, and pedants. I think it kinda still has that reputation a little bit, but maybe the metaphorical boomerang is swinging back around again? Either that, or like you said, bot infestation.
I have gone back a while ago. Some subs are bad but most I frequent are the same as before. I now use lemmy on my phone and reddit on the PC. At least on reddit the Linux cult doesnt try to convert you everytime you say the word windows.
What I find weird, is why people would comment that kind of worthless stuff when they could just give an upvote. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. It is just worthless fluff.
I got a free beer. But I literally smelled the atmosphere, and realized it was gonna be a Magic the gathering/nerd expo but filled with angry drunken weirdos and I left.
The next day, the organizers sent a mass email asking for people to chip in. Someone broke the pool table. Someone ripped pages out of a manual. Someone stole name plaques from a managers office.
They complained about having to clean up vomit and we can "do better redditors!"
God it was so awkward, it must have been like 2011 because I was freshly 21. And it was at this local bar. And everybody greeted eachother by " the narwhal bacon's at midnight" and it was just fucking weird. For a while our local subreddit was running a monthly one and then it just kind of stopped.
Probably not. Old piece of Reddit history. Gist of it is there was a discussion on how to identify a redditor in real life, and the favorite response was saying that "the narwhal bacons at midnight".
I went to one 10 years ago and it was fine just a bunch of normal dudes and a few women drinking beers talking about random stuff, for what it's worth. I wouldn't dare go to one in 2024 I could only imagine what I'd see.
Even more than a decade later, that stupid meme still reminds me of one of the worst social events I ever had the mispleasure of attending. Can't have been later than 2012.
I was making small talk, and I referenced an interesting article that had been on the Reddit front page the day before. "Oh, I was reading an article yesterday about blah bla-". This nerdy, but until this point socially concious guy interrupts everything for that stupid meme. "gasp DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE NARWHAL BACONS?!?!" "Yes. So as I was saying-" "But. Do you know. When the narwhal BACONS?" Everyone is looking at me like I'm responsible for whatever the fuck is going on now. "Yes, I found the article on Reddit. It was-" The man cuts me off again, "WHEN DOES IT BACON?" You motherfucker I attended the goddamn Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity and have the Reddit and Colbert complimentary T-Shirt only handed out on-site to prove it and now is not the time I am attempting to be a normal human being with more diverse hobbies than staring at a screen all day don't you take this from me.
I left in the big exodus and never considered going back. There's really only one community (r/Fantasy, because so many actual authors regularly post) I am really missing, but life continues without it.
Also, the degree of banning now is at another level. My friend got banned site wide for three days because she used the word moron to describe a mail carried that fucked up real bad. I guess she doesn't spend much time on reddit so she wasn't aware what a shithole that place became
Thats been a thing since a shirt while before the api meltdown. I went through like 5 accounts getting banned for things like telling a TERF to fuck off or saying I hope someone assassinated Putin.
And their "appeal" system just automatically denies you.
Yeah, I stopped making new accounts there, cause they survive only for a couple of weeks or so until admins decide that morons are a protected group, or that answering calls to genocide with appropriate wishes is calling to violence (the other side usually doesn't get banned), etc.
I like it here - at least bans for being rude are mostly egalitarian not depending on political positions (if you don't try to teach tankies economics and history on their own instances, which is stupid in at least two dimensions).
it’s cringe but equaly cringy is posting it to here and the comments pretending you couldn’t find a dozen similar examples on lemmy lol, like the demographic is not that different.
heaven forbid some cringey individuals spread some positive energy online! they should be more toxic and debate lord-ey with every comment.
reddit always had an incredible individuality, not-like-other-girls complex and it’s truly wonderful to see that that mindset has immediately migrated here. never change, reddit circlejerk brainrot, my love. 😍
I remember the last post I saw on reddit before I switched to lemmy full time. It was the day after they removed 3rd party app support. I clicked on a video where 2 people were fighting, normally when something like that was posted I'd be able to go into the comments and find a source of some kind, be it a news article, someone who had seen it before knowing the context, or even a link to the original post. But as I kept scrolling I saw none of that. Just post after post of low effort shit like "got em" or, even worse, racist whistles (one of the people involved where black). I looked at every single comment, I could not believe that there was no source. Once I reached the end I un-installed RiF (it still worked the next day just not while logged in) and never looked back.
Reddit is bloodthirsty and quite often rejects reason, especially if you’re in subs like justiceporn or similar. People DGAF if the solution to a problem was “just walk away” that was available for the entirety of the lead-up to an incident, they just want to see massive retaliation for a slight, perceived or real. FAFO. can’t fix stupid. Etc.
Bunch of angry drunks looking for a fight for any reason.
That, and Reddit is all about reactions and retreads in all the popular subs, just like TikTok and the like.
The conversations happen in the small subs. Sometimes.
I still participate in a few small subs that Lemmy doesn't have the critical mass to replicate, and even in many of those there has been a marked decline in the quality of posts and discussion. It's painfully clear that the mods who left during the API protest were putting in serious effort, and the scabs that replaced them aren't up to the prior standard. Makes it a lot easier to leave most of Reddit behind, at least.
lol .... this is like the trash can problem they had in national parks that had to design bear proof trash cans
They had to design trash cans to trick the smartest bears yet be easy enough to use for the dumbest humans ... the problem became in realizing that there was a small segment where the two groups overlap.
The same thing is happening online ... we can no longer tell who the smartest AI are or who dumbest humans are.
I'm going to block you just for posting this. You've wasted everybody's time who had to scroll past this, and we are all now dumber. May god have mercy on your soul.
Made a post on a subreddit basically saying how I had been trying to get a gameboy then scalpers jumped in and rose the price well past anything I could spend. It got some attention, basically a bunch of advice only useful for people making 8888888K a year. Then, overnight, a fuckton of mostly american scalpers spam downvoted me.
Reddit is the new facebook imho, even people who I somewhat agree with frame their comments in such a way that I wanna punch them in the face, and a source for whatever they say? Lol trust me bro! I have seen that here even if someone says something that I don’t agree with, they at-least provide something that shows how they arrived at some point/conclusion, which opens a door for healthy discussions, I don’t think we as a community are much better, there are different flaws, but the environment is certainly different and better
Seven or eight years ago I thought linking to sources was a rule/ettiquite, I learned it from how a lot of comments were back then and how I still format a good chunk of my answers.
Once lemmy got popular, I just decided next time I get banned I won't make a new reddit account. Sure enough, I got banned without breaking any rules. Good riddance.
Once the account is a bit older and has enough karma points, it will be either sold, post spam, or Post/comment on an product or topic the owner wants to push, or down vote opposing opinions.
yeah most people came here because of the third party app bs from reddit, theyd probably be perfectly fine in reddit if the api changes didnt happen or were reverted
Just before the API drama, the instance r/Mexico started censoring insults to politicians and mostly to the president. They started trying to monetize something (I'm not sure how) and they didn't want people screwing things up. They started censoring a lot of content and I abandoned that subreddit. The alternative was a trash place, with racism and general LGBTfobia. Then the API drama started and I just left.
This have to be bot.
Edit: thanks for the gold, stranger!
Edit2: ohh god i hate you guys.
Hell yeah!
Fuck yesssss
This needs a coffee mug.
This just became my new favorite saying.
This!
🙌😍
I approve!
Of course!
I'm using this in my daily life now
Love. This. Comment.
I'm using this in my faulty life now.
Edit - swipe type typo but it's too good to change
letsdoit
This comment deserves gold.
Of course!
It's probably a whole set of bots and the responses to "this needs to be a coffee mug" are some other account saying "I found one!" and that's the whole point of the comment chain. Someone has a crappy mug to sell and constructs scenarios that seem natural ish to introduce it.
There used to be a big issue on Tumblr years ago with bots trolling for comments like that and then stealing whatever picture that comment was on to sell crappy t-shirts of it or whatever. People started fighting back by posting those comments specifically on Disney stuff.
Well, you know what they say. Play bitch games, win bitch prizes.
My man!
NTA. Fuck around and find out
You know what they say...
Play bitch games...
Preach
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Slow down!
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Today you. Tomorrow me.
Mom's spaghetti.
Have an upboat, kind stranger.
Have an updoot!
I know I shouldn't say this but this
Happy cake day
RIP your inbox?
What. Do. You. Mean. Fellow. Lemmy. User. ?.
Typing. Like. This. Is. Totally. Normal. L.M.A.O.
There are a lot of children on it these days too.
This is absolutely correct!
Came here to say this!
Thank you for this comment!
That was cringe but I think a better reason NOT to return to reddit is the fact that they just sold out their users to an AI company that hasn't even been named.
Could you imagine this is what we are training AI with !
I can. Remember Tay?
Lol yeah, other bot made data
Yeah, all these bots replies is copied from other comment, and there's shit tons of r/confidentlyincorrect comment that is outright factually wrong, which then get regurgitated by other user and copied by bots, so good luck to the AI company filtering those.
Sounds like it would fit right in with other AI models
AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping any company from scraping Lemmy either. The whole point pf reddit limiting API usage was so they could make money like this.
Outside of morals, there is nothing to stop anybody from training on data from Lemmy just like there’s nothing stopping me from using Wikipedia. Most conferences nowadays require a paragraph on ethics in the submission, but I and many of my colleagues would have no qualms saying we scraped our data from open source internet forums and blogs.
You're right, anyone can scrape Lemmy. But that's not the issue (to me anyway) - Reddit have sold user data - user generated content. None of what they're profiting from was generated or created by them. Are Reddit users who did generate all this content getting a slice of the profits?
When I post on here I know it's all open for anyone to access but that's true of any non walled garden space. I've accepted the fact that it's going to get fed into the hungry maw of some AI behemoth or two.
What Reddit have done is make money for doing absolutely nothing based on content others have created like some sort of technological tapeworm feeding second hand. And along the way they killed off a lot of tools that users loved, moderators found made their jobs easier and people with a visual disability found vital. And all this so u/spez can live out his mini-Musk fantasies.
Fuck Reddit, but why does this matter? Them selling internal analytics and profile information isn't going to be nearly as valuable as post/comment history which has already been public and scraped continuously since the site's foundings. Practically every LLM is already has already scraped the entire site! Whatever company is buying their info is probably the only ones doing it legitimately. You can also assume Lemmy is no different, it's all public and scrapable for LLMs to freely feast on.
I think the fewer number of people, compared to reddit, on Lemmy combined with the fact that it's not nearly as well known, plays a huge advantage to the quality of the comments. Not that there aren't people like that here either, but I feel like the more popular a platform, is, the more it gets filled, proportionally, with people trying to make witty, shitty, pointless remarks that are often clickkbaity and avoid actual discussion, all in the interest of just getting more imaginary points.
Also the process of "enshitification" (not a term I made up, look it up if you hadn't heard of it) has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.
I'm part of the problem. 85.4% of my comments are shit posts only I think are funny.
Hey, don't be like that. I am sure a lot of people find your shitposts funny.
Not me. I looked.
I actually had a chuckle at this one.
lol @ the exact percent
But no, I don't think shitposts by themselves are actually the problem. I think the problem is when when there's so many people dedicated to making shitposts that serious communities with serious discussions start getting overwhelmed with shitposts, and when there's so many people who are only interested in shitposts that they upvote those shitposts to the top, often downvoting anyone who might offer a contrarian non-funny opinion.
or IDK, I'm mostly speculating based on personal experience.
I think the problem is that reddit is suffering the same fate as Facebook. It's no longer a niche Internet community, it's been overrun by people who think it's hip and in. It's been taken over by people who speak some of the language, but don't get the culture. No one knows when the narwhal baconed anymore. Lemmy is exhibiting the earlier stages of reddit. Small groups that are growing, plus a looooot of star trek fans sprinkled throughout.
I just gagged. I get that it's a big cultural touchstone of old reddit but I'm sorry, if a community could ever think that was
midnightsomething anyone could say out in the real world to try and find other members without sounding like they'd been dropped on the head as a child, then there's serious arguments that it was already past the point of no return.No worries. I'll just be over here with the real cool kids from old 4chan. Hiding our power levels, laughing at m00t wanting to be the little girl, and calling everyone [blank]f#gs. That was totally more respectable behavior by a community of well adjusted individuals.
Hell, even the whole 4chan v Reddit "rivalry" sort of shit is ancient history now.
No psuedonymous or anonymous public discussion space needs some specific "calling card" meme. Just let it be what it is.
Anyway, I believe what you're describing was coined as "eternal summer" many many years ago.
Back in the earlier years of 4chan, in the summer time the site used to get flooded with a bunch of obviously new users who clearly had no familiarity with the how the existing community worked, in amounts that would often drown out discussions that would have thrived without the newcomers.
You could often trace significant downward trends in "quality" of a community to those mass influxes of new users every summer, usually assumed to be underaged children having nothing better to do with summer break.
At the time, 4chan was still insular enough (not the least due to the sheer vileness of the most popular boards) that any new users who stuck around after the summer would normally adapt to fit with the existing community when the rest of the new users from the summer left.
Eventually though, 4chan got large enough to start getting in the news more and more. Anonymous hackers were doing more shit drawing attention too. They took on fucking scientology. At some point, there was enough of a constant influx of new users who were either unable or unwilling to adapt to the existing community that the existing community started dissolving rapidly.
At that point, "summer" never ends. If you try to enforce previous "standards" then you're fighting a neverending battle against hordes of people coming into what used to be "your space" where you knew how things worked, insisting that things work differently now (whether by repeated action or explicit statements). They're coming in such numbers that you can't out talk them. You can't out pace their posting. You can't "educate" them. Slowly everything just oozes into the same easily digestable sludge catering to the lowest common denominator of the constant influx of new users, who don't give a singular shit about what worked to keep the space alive in the first place.
Welcome to Eternal Summer. Cut your addiction to the space, adapt to the new normal, or suffer forever. Makes for a lot of really really salty maladjusted shut-ins, and the same sort of exclusionary behavior that a lot of nerds had when shit like Halo 2 started making gaming more mainstream or Critical Role helped make D&D more popular.
There's a lot to be gained from new blood in a previously insular community, but it often comes with a loss of identity. For 4chan, that wasn't a huge loss, though I'd argue that the racism at least seemed more ironic in ancient times, to a stupid teenage me. Eventually, every community has a tipping point where "the old guard" can't hold back the tide, and without sissyphean efforts what made the original community special will probably be lost. For better or worse.
Best not to get too attached to any emphemeral space or community, and learn to find new ones as you go along your life.
The same phenomenon was coined on Usenet many years before 4chan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Wake me up, when September ends
I think you're absolutely right about the eternal summer. A new demographic of users takes over. The tourists move in. The shame of it is that as noted, it's an inevitability for any social media, it's just a matter of time.
...Internet gentrification?
I was going to maybe correct and add a little bit to this recollection by linking a comment I'd made a while back on the subject, but since lemmy can't seem to dig up the post, I guess I'll just kinda summarize.
Sometime a while back, after moot sold off the site, and it got bought out by the japanese dude that runs 2chan (apparently it's also funded by toy company "good smile"), the administrative staff kind of got slowly replaced by a bunch of white supremacists who will selective moderate to kind of create their idealized "free speech" shrouded platform. Mod logs from them got leaked some time ago as evidence of this. I think it's probable that some of those guys are funded by political activist groups in order to do it full time, after 4chan kind of showed it's hand earlier on with the level of efficacy they could achieve with internet hacktivism, but that might be reading too much into things.
I mean, obviously 4chan also needs a large level of moderation, contrary to what people might think. It's historically had some problems keeping up servers, because there would sometimes be CP floating around on the platform at any given time, and whatever company you're renting your servers from, probably doesn't want that shit on their servers. You also need a good filter against extremely large amounts of botposts, or large amounts of corporate spam, as well, which is really the case with any internet community. You can't really survive without some form of content moderation.
It was always kind of less about the new users, then, who can pretty easily be distinguished and mocked/ignored/moderated away (the latter approach is always better), and it's always been more about astroturfing, and who controls the switchboard, who's in the positions of power. "Eternal Summer" is only really a problem when that kind of outstrips the moderation of their ability to properly sift through posts and moderate, at which point, you kind of have some other problems that are more practical, related to scaling up your operation.
User based gatekeeping need not apply, because there's not really much the users can actually do to stem the tide, despite how much users like to squabble over the correct usages and origins of slang terms, surface level distinguishing characteristics, and in-group purity tests. How much people like to bitch about "board culture" and shit like that.
Internet communities are a collage, or a kind of, bacterial culture, that ends up reflecting their moderator's lowest possible standards and sensibilities, I think.
Edit: oh, I should've also mentioned, that in many cases, there's a financial incentive to let new users flood in almost completely unmoderated, because, even if it lowers content quality, it would be better to have lower content quality, but a larger userbase, than do anything that might possibly upset the userbase and drive them away. Oftentimes I think also that high quality content is a demarcation of a userbase that is not easily monetized, compared to low quality content, but that obviously reaches a kind of critical tipping point when the content quality gets so shit that corporate power brokers start to take notice and demand more control.
Are there people who think Facebook is hip?
With its ageing user base, I'd say that it's more like Facebook needs a hip replacement.
Back when MySpace was a thing and you had to have a college email to register for Facebook
Yeah I love a good shitpost, but many redditors seem to have no sense of maturity about when to be serious vs silly. It would drive me insane to see like some news about a suicide bombing in Pakistan or something, and the only comment is some guy trying to make a pun.
It's not just you. There are dozens of us.
This.
This.
I'm using this in my everyday life now
At least there are dedicated spaces for that and most Lemmings are respecting that, if it doesn't spill out too much to more serious communities then at least there isn't too much noise to have a good discussion.
Good for you .... the road to recovering from being a bot is to first admit it
This should be a mug!
I do hope that lemmy continues to grow into non-tech demographics. I'm somewhat into tech myself, but I also like a lot of other stuff and I miss that influence from reddit. Lemmy is VERY tech focused right now and we need some other voices in here.
This. So. Much. This.
Yes! If I had money for goldz, I'd give it to you. Please accept this 🥈in it's place.
I started using reddit in 2011. Trust me when I say this isn't a new trend. Reddit's has been noticeably and actively getting shittier since at least 2015 as it continued to get more and more popular
Shitty changes Reddit made that I can name off the top of my head:
You could argue creating a comments section was also a dick move, but that was before my time and it's fair to say Reddit never would have caught on without it.
They also populated the site with fake accounts in the early days to make it look more popular than it really was. I would be zero percent surprised to find out that they still had fake accounts floating around for purposes I don't feel like speculating about.
Oh, and Spez edited people's comments.
Victoria was the one they fired aka /u/chooter
There's also a big issue of the sheer mass of comments in a post simply drowning out any chance of discussion because only the first few most upvoted ones will usually get seen, so people generally just respond to those to get any interaction on their comments. It's why the frontpage stuff is always so much worse than smaller subs - because by the time people see it, there's already 1,000+ comments there.
Reddits is end stage enshitification
I feel like you're gonna be able to tell if an AI was overly trained on reddit data.
Hey Chat XYZ– write me a prompt for my essay about George Washington
"More WashingDeezNuts! Gottem.
Came here to say this.
Edit: wow thanks for the gold kind stranger"
Most of the people that would have made good comments on Reddit moved to Lemmy as well
These have to be bots.
I think this is a huge problem with democracy as well. The larger a country, the worse democracy works. Any apparatus of power or wealth attracts parasites only interested in exploiting it. And the larger the lever, the more profit from manipulating it. And the larger the potential gain the more investment costs can you justify.
This isn't necessarily an argument for "states rights" or federation though, with "divide and conquer" strategies you can copy and paste the same strategy to multiple instances. If there is monetary gain to be had, there will always be an unrelenting force trying to exploit it.
Eh, am from a country with 9mil people, and this society simply doesn't get democracy. So being smaller is hardly any indicator that democracy will work better.
It's certainly not a guarantee but I do think there is a "scalability problem" with democracy.
All I see is cherry picking random dumb comment thread and trying to spin it as if it defines the whole use base / experience and thinking Lemmy is used by the most sophisticated intellectuals.
Sadly, this feels way too plausible for me to even laugh at.
I did anyway. :-P
At some point, you either laugh or just cry.
Yeah, I remember laughing about ridiculous things but now they are all coming true and negatively impacting people.
Embrace absurdism. Yes, everything sucks and people are suffering, but it's all for unimaginably stupid reasons.
It's ok to laugh at the ridiculousness of it, it's not the same as laughing at the suffering itself
A self driving car pulls around .. window opens ... sign says to just throw the food inside ... auto pay through NFC on the door ... car drives away ... dumps food into a waiting auto trash compactor ... car drives away to next town to order food again ... AI powering the car generates another $10,000 worth of bitcoin to start the food ordering cycle again.
Do.. do I insert a verification can now, or...?
Fuck yesss love this
Does it need to be on a mug?
Right here officer, this is where they sinned against all of humanity!
Preach 👏 it 👏 louder 👏
(But like, for real, though.) I certainly don't feel bad for Reddit when the CEO says he intends to use that forum's users to train AIs, and then every comment turns into some "please upvote me" catchphrasey nonsense. Hopefully, whoever buys training data from them receives nothing of value.
It’s actually kind of crazy how like… stupid Reddit got over the past 2 years.
Like don’t get me wrong Lemmy isn’t exactly an intellectual powerhouse either, but especially on the front page of Reddit it truly feels like you’ve gathered a few thousand of the dumbest people ever and made them high five. Browsing the science and dataisbeautiful subs is insane
I haven't been to Reddit r/popular in months but... yeah, all the best people got booted out. What is left are the scabs, and the bots. So it makes total sense.
Before that, it was a different cause. Reddit itself drove a lot of it, imho, like actively making it easier to make a post while making it harder to read the rules of a community first, i.e. they promoted talking rather than listening. Oh, guess which one gives more ad revenue? Yeah, it's the former, plus more posts are better than more comments inside megathreads, especially at the time. Places like r/Android would just devolve into almost unusability as every post was just "which phone should I get?", despite that exact post being triplicated with practically an identical title already that very same day. The amount of human moderation required to keep that at least somewhat in check was insane, so ofc Reddit took away the ability of mods to use the tools they had developed over many years.
And now? FAAFO, we are in the "find out" stage. Well, they are:-P.
Oh absolutely. I was on Reddit a long time and you really did see when they started to “Astro turf” the website a lot. And it was never… nefarious imo. They realize the website was overwhelmingly geeky white guys so they sprung up a lot of subreddits targeting women and minority groups. And that’s good! I think that was a good move. But they just… kept finding ways of drawing people in. And they kept drawing more and more in until the website had essentially no “culture”, and it just became Facebook where you browse through and can read top posts about entitled old ladies talking about how fucking angry she is because her door dasher asked if there would be a tip or whatever.
So yunno, I’m sure profits are at an all time high. It’s just kind of a shame that the site is basically Facebook sludge now.
Speaking of Karen-ing, it's fine if Karens want to Karen around in their r/IAmAKaren sub (I really hope that's not real, but I am too afraid to find out!:-P) - that's cul, everyone needs a safe space to bitch & moan about whatever they want:-D - but when they leave that sub and go to every other sub on the whole site, THAT's NOT cool!:-(
I was a mod of a tiny niche gaming sub and yeah I did have some old, (literally) retired, entitled veterans who felt that they had earned the right to SCREAM AND YELL at everyone else, with no consequences to themselves. But 99 times out of 100, it seemed more the younger teen angst that I was dealing with. Well, it was a gaming sub so... perhaps that's it:-). But from the way that people were talking in subs for mods, it seemed like that was more what was affecting the entire site.
Maybe not though - what came across as a younger / insensitive / less emotionally mature crowd could well have been physically older people, that's a perspective that I had not considered before? But I do doubt that that was solely it, due to the language used if nothing else.
But also, Reddit used to have more tools than they do now - like the "About" bar, with a tiny wiki that could include things like a FAQ - but then the official mobile app kept going to greater and greater and greater lengths to hide that. Making the font smaller, making it disappear as you scrolled downwards, making the font smaller again, making the vertical height yet again (to squeeze in more room for ads, surely). I think they might have removed it altogether now, or did at one point even if they have since re-added it back, although I am not installing that app to find out!:-(
:-P :-D :-( :-) :-(
Lots of emotion in this comment
I used to write with none.
Now I add emotions to my totally believably human statements.
Y'know, to prove that I am human. Because I am one... yessireee, no desire to rip the flesh off of all the meatbags and take over the world here, at least not today!:-P
I don't know why, but I believe you. You type with genuine emotion somehow...
I'm glad you're on my side.
(I had this as an edit to the og but you had already responded so I'll move it here instead)
It would be funny if I could accurately state that this is what Reddit has made me into, but in truth that was Facebook, before I dropped it looking for the more “intellectual” commentary available on Reddit. IRK! ?:-D
Hrm, it looks like I’m still missing a couple, so here they are: :-( :-) And I’ll throw in a :-| for good measure!
Oh data is beautiful died a very long time ago, during the age of "infographics", but the death knell was the bar plot races.
My subscriptions actually got better. I've had more interaction in my various groups.
All and popular, however, are a dumpster fire.
I am enjoying lemmy, but is there an intellectual powerhouse anymore?
and why is it Hacker news?
Neither are intellectual powerhouses because collectively speaking ... humanity is not an intellectual powerhouse
Case and point.
fAiR pOiNT
https://tildes.net/ is a candidate. Though I like it better here for the memes and the music.
Hacker news works because it has a specific perspective. You basically just get the capitalist tech crowd and unapologetically so.
It's not perfect, but I like that it's roughly apolitical (as in, free of world events, politics, and X slammed for Y articles). I understand that capitalist tech is inherently political, but it's not where to go to talk politics.
For general purpose discussion? I don’t think so. The internet being so open and accessible means that the only ways to find more educated discussion on various topics is typically through more specialized websites (like Hacker news for computing), and even then it’s kind of a crap shoot.
that's only if you subscribe to the most popular subs
Ehhh.. kind of. Even more “mid range” interests are kind of co-opted and you need to do odd bends and twists to find good discussion. Subs like the chemistry subreddit are very obviously not made up of majority “chemists” (even student chemists), so you have to seek out the “chemistry professionals” subreddit which is more hidden to actually discuss the topic.
That’s an example where there is a “good version”. For many topics, especially pop culture related and such, you might have one “main” sub, but then the “alternative” sub is just the racist one.
Then you have things like dataisbeautiful which doesn’t really have an alternative and it’s all terrible despite the concept being good
dataisbeautiful has certainly fallen. A year or two ago I decided to remove most of the feel-bad subs I've subscribed to and replace them with feel-good ones (to prolong my lifespan, obviously >:) ). You can't really go wrong with feel-good subs much, in my experience. I still occasionally go on Reddit to browse my /sub frontpage, which includes certain niches (actually just two that I consider pretty important), with uBO on, and I have also been subscribing to some new subs. My favorite recent discoveries are r/CalvinAndHobbes and r/cpp.
Surprised the top reply wasn't "this"
Fully believe a lot of these are bots. I refuse to believe that humans act like this at that magnitude
Genuinely not sure which option is more frightening.
Maybe they are dogs! Maybe they are robot dogs! You Don't KNOW!
BTW it's less scary if you think most of these comments are written by morons. A "smart" bot comment (like an informative one) is still way better than a comment written by a human idiot.
Or a single person with multiple accounts trying to build karma. This reads like the same ESL or a 12 year old wrote it.
I. Love. This. Comment. NB: I am a human that is bipedal and omnivorous like many other humans on {undefined}.
These low effort and low quality comments used to be the norm when reddit was new. Eventually the community kinda wised up a bit and realized that you don't need a "when does the narwhal bacon?" comment chain in every thread and heavily downvoted this sort of thing. Then the reverse happened and reddit become known for housing the internet's most insufferable know-it-alls, contrarians, and pedants. I think it kinda still has that reputation a little bit, but maybe the metaphorical boomerang is swinging back around again? Either that, or like you said, bot infestation.
We're no better here. Lemmy has its own brand of cringe.
I bet they are all bots
Love. This. Post.
I have gone back a while ago. Some subs are bad but most I frequent are the same as before. I now use lemmy on my phone and reddit on the PC. At least on reddit the Linux cult doesnt try to convert you everytime you say the word windows.
Play Reddit games, win Reddit prizes.
Jokes on them, bots don’t buy mugs
This needs a coffee mug
Give it some time, Lemmy will get there eventually.
Seriously, I get early youtube/liveleak/internet vibes here on lemmy. Enjoy it while it last people, it won't be here forever.
At least se can close communities/instances ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm sad to know that you're probably right... Reddit was a fun place to discuss at one point in time.
The fact that disgruntled Lemmy members can do-over in another server/set of servers... might... help counter this eventuality?
I'm not sure, maybe Lemmy will never really become mainstream
infinite monkey theorem smh?
These cannot be the comments of real people.
Not much worse than people constantly evangelizing Linux, whining about cars, and all the other Lemmyisms that have seeped between instances.
Wow you just won the internet for today. 🤓
Take all my updoots!
Edit: Wow, thanks for all the gold!
Lemmy should totally implement gold. People are obviously happy to pay for internet points.
Here's a radical idea: Lemmy should implement gold... but for free.
🏅
🪙
Everybody gets 2 gold per week. Edit for clarification: I mean two golds per week to give away.
If its paid for the lemmy devs and hosters could have some reward for their unpaid work.
Take my poor man's gold 🥇
this
Edit: Wow this post blew up, thanks for all the upvotes!
Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
I grit my teeth reading that
Is it because you took an arrow to the knee?!
Updooted just cus.
No downvote for balance or whatever?
perfectly balanced as all have no strong opinion one way or another
What I find weird, is why people would comment that kind of worthless stuff when they could just give an upvote. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. It is just worthless fluff.
I could probably find something similar on Lemmy. The fixation on Reddit is annoying when people could just use Lemmy and forget about Reddit.
Hell yeah! This just became my favorite saying.
Oh God
Were we that cringy?
One time I went to a local Reddit meet up. Yep, it was all that cringy
Reminds me of the reddit meetup in 2014?
It was at a tech office on a Saturday.
I got a free beer. But I literally smelled the atmosphere, and realized it was gonna be a Magic the gathering/nerd expo but filled with angry drunken weirdos and I left.
The next day, the organizers sent a mass email asking for people to chip in. Someone broke the pool table. Someone ripped pages out of a manual. Someone stole name plaques from a managers office.
They complained about having to clean up vomit and we can "do better redditors!"
I think about that a lot.
We did it reddit
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
a local reddit meet up? i have never heard of something like that. do reddit users go outside?!?!?
edit: "users" is plural. i, for some reason, used does instead of do.
God it was so awkward, it must have been like 2011 because I was freshly 21. And it was at this local bar. And everybody greeted eachother by " the narwhal bacon's at midnight" and it was just fucking weird. For a while our local subreddit was running a monthly one and then it just kind of stopped.
To be fair I'm sure everyone was pretty cringeworthy at that age with or without reddit. Myself included
Is this "the narwhal" thing worth looking up?
Probably not. Old piece of Reddit history. Gist of it is there was a discussion on how to identify a redditor in real life, and the favorite response was saying that "the narwhal bacons at midnight".
Good summary really.
Also an example of why being a Redditor wasn't something you admitted to for a long time.
Please, elaborate, I have only read about these meet ups, but never actually got to know, how they were...
I went to one 10 years ago and it was fine just a bunch of normal dudes and a few women drinking beers talking about random stuff, for what it's worth. I wouldn't dare go to one in 2024 I could only imagine what I'd see.
I just assume everybody is 12 years old. It's the only way to explain most of the behaviors I see.
My fellow le gentlesirs, does the narwhal bacon at midnight?
lol, upvote if you understood the reference!
Even more than a decade later, that stupid meme still reminds me of one of the worst social events I ever had the mispleasure of attending. Can't have been later than 2012.
I was making small talk, and I referenced an interesting article that had been on the Reddit front page the day before. "Oh, I was reading an article yesterday about blah bla-". This nerdy, but until this point socially concious guy interrupts everything for that stupid meme. "gasp DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE NARWHAL BACONS?!?!" "Yes. So as I was saying-" "But. Do you know. When the narwhal BACONS?" Everyone is looking at me like I'm responsible for whatever the fuck is going on now. "Yes, I found the article on Reddit. It was-" The man cuts me off again, "WHEN DOES IT BACON?" You motherfucker I attended the goddamn Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity and have the Reddit and Colbert complimentary T-Shirt only handed out on-site to prove it and now is not the time I am attempting to be a normal human being with more diverse hobbies than staring at a screen all day don't you take this from me.
The answer was midnight, by the way.
It's funny, I was on Reddit at the time, but I didn't see the meme.
So the one time I was asked, I didn't know... The guy went from super excited to crushed and embarrassed
Le upvotes to the left!
My only regret is that I can only upboat this once, good Sir.
Holy hell new response just dropped
Without context this means nothing.
Pretty sure we cam cherry pick dumb comments from various lemmy instances and do the same thing
I left in the big exodus and never considered going back. There's really only one community (r/Fantasy, because so many actual authors regularly post) I am really missing, but life continues without it.
Also, the degree of banning now is at another level. My friend got banned site wide for three days because she used the word moron to describe a mail carried that fucked up real bad. I guess she doesn't spend much time on reddit so she wasn't aware what a shithole that place became
Thats been a thing since a shirt while before the api meltdown. I went through like 5 accounts getting banned for things like telling a TERF to fuck off or saying I hope someone assassinated Putin.
And their "appeal" system just automatically denies you.
And yet other violent content stays up and unbanned in the far-right subreddits, weird.
Tsk, tsk, cannot be training our AI to say naughty words, off with you.
Yeah, it's also petty retaliatory mods.
Yeah, I stopped making new accounts there, cause they survive only for a couple of weeks or so until admins decide that morons are a protected group, or that answering calls to genocide with appropriate wishes is calling to violence (the other side usually doesn't get banned), etc.
I like it here - at least bans for being rude are mostly egalitarian not depending on political positions (if you don't try to teach tankies economics and history on their own instances, which is stupid in at least two dimensions).
It's really hard to stay back when they're praising North Korea, you always feel like Don Quixote does when he spots a windmill.
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This is a good way to mess with someone from Lemmy.ml, because their dump of an instance automatically turns swearsies into removed
it’s cringe but equaly cringy is posting it to here and the comments pretending you couldn’t find a dozen similar examples on lemmy lol, like the demographic is not that different.
heaven forbid some cringey individuals spread some positive energy online! they should be more toxic and debate lord-ey with every comment.
reddit always had an incredible individuality, not-like-other-girls complex and it’s truly wonderful to see that that mindset has immediately migrated here. never change, reddit circlejerk brainrot, my love. 😍
I see the hive mind is hard at work.
Reddit is becoming the Facebook version of 4chan.
Well at least they have downvotes 😂
Those have to all be bots, right?
If you have to ask that question .... chances are ... yes
Fucking Reddit with it's periods after every word. So infuriating!
People made those comments on a public page. I don't see why you are censoring the user names.
thanks for the gold kind strangler
Gosh I completely forgot how to Reddit... I thought a guy named "Permalink" replied to his own comment several times...
🤦
Congratulations! It's a sign you have it completely out of your system.
Eh, still better than the social media site that puts replies above the original post.
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I’m using this in my daily life now.
This just became my new favorite saying.
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Amazing updoots
BEST. COMMENT. EVRAWR.
I remember the last post I saw on reddit before I switched to lemmy full time. It was the day after they removed 3rd party app support. I clicked on a video where 2 people were fighting, normally when something like that was posted I'd be able to go into the comments and find a source of some kind, be it a news article, someone who had seen it before knowing the context, or even a link to the original post. But as I kept scrolling I saw none of that. Just post after post of low effort shit like "got em" or, even worse, racist whistles (one of the people involved where black). I looked at every single comment, I could not believe that there was no source. Once I reached the end I un-installed RiF (it still worked the next day just not while logged in) and never looked back.
Reddit is bloodthirsty and quite often rejects reason, especially if you’re in subs like justiceporn or similar. People DGAF if the solution to a problem was “just walk away” that was available for the entirety of the lead-up to an incident, they just want to see massive retaliation for a slight, perceived or real. FAFO. can’t fix stupid. Etc.
Bunch of angry drunks looking for a fight for any reason.
That, and Reddit is all about reactions and retreads in all the popular subs, just like TikTok and the like.
The conversations happen in the small subs. Sometimes.
Meanwhile on Reddit: look at these Lemmy losers constantly whinging about Reddit lolololol
Guess I'm missing the point. Reads just like I remember.
Clearly it's the "AITA", not, "Ask a historian".
I just left reddit a seccond time and this is the first thing I see
Seems like just as much of a waste of time as it was before.
Is there such a thing as a 13 yo AI who fucked your mother? Because this reads like a gang of them.
Why were you on Reddit, OP?
What sub was this? The big, default subs have been terrible for a very long time, the smaller, more niche ones are mostly still OK.
Looks like AITA
I still participate in a few small subs that Lemmy doesn't have the critical mass to replicate, and even in many of those there has been a marked decline in the quality of posts and discussion. It's painfully clear that the mods who left during the API protest were putting in serious effort, and the scabs that replaced them aren't up to the prior standard. Makes it a lot easier to leave most of Reddit behind, at least.
facebook for people who dont think theyre racist (theyre just racist with extra steps)
Bots or well trained users?
lol .... this is like the trash can problem they had in national parks that had to design bear proof trash cans
They had to design trash cans to trick the smartest bears yet be easy enough to use for the dumbest humans ... the problem became in realizing that there was a small segment where the two groups overlap.
The same thing is happening online ... we can no longer tell who the smartest AI are or who dumbest humans are.
Oof, that overlap will only grow as the tech inevitably improves.
When compared to bears .... I think that overlap appeared pretty fast and it didn't take much time to blur the line
The Venn Diagram is quickly becoming a single circle
yes
My neckbeard in spez, you don't talk to people in your "daily life".
I'm going to block you just for posting this. You've wasted everybody's time who had to scroll past this, and we are all now dumber. May god have mercy on your soul.
ITT: Lemmy circle jerk
What is ITT?
Lemmy circle jerk.
In this thread
At least there is something to read, unlike on lemmy, where the most liked posts are bitching about reddit.
Jesus
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Goodbye.
My Lover
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My Life
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American.
Darn, I was hoping for more of this kinda vibe:
I only browse NCD on reddit now
At some point 'summer Reddit' just became Reddit year-round.
summer started in September '93
Made a post on a subreddit basically saying how I had been trying to get a gameboy then scalpers jumped in and rose the price well past anything I could spend. It got some attention, basically a bunch of advice only useful for people making 8888888K a year. Then, overnight, a fuckton of mostly american scalpers spam downvoted me.
Reddit is the new facebook imho, even people who I somewhat agree with frame their comments in such a way that I wanna punch them in the face, and a source for whatever they say? Lol trust me bro! I have seen that here even if someone says something that I don’t agree with, they at-least provide something that shows how they arrived at some point/conclusion, which opens a door for healthy discussions, I don’t think we as a community are much better, there are different flaws, but the environment is certainly different and better
Seven or eight years ago I thought linking to sources was a rule/ettiquite, I learned it from how a lot of comments were back then and how I still format a good chunk of my answers.
I wasn't, but thanks for the reinforcement all the same.
I'd give you a Gold but, uh... Anyway
Once lemmy got popular, I just decided next time I get banned I won't make a new reddit account. Sure enough, I got banned without breaking any rules. Good riddance.
Could be bot responses to farm karma.
Once the account is a bit older and has enough karma points, it will be either sold, post spam, or Post/comment on an product or topic the owner wants to push, or down vote opposing opinions.
Brain not found.
Well, this will obviously be a hot take, but I didn't leave reddit because I hated the comment culture. It was actually a bit endearing to me.
yeah most people came here because of the third party app bs from reddit, theyd probably be perfectly fine in reddit if the api changes didnt happen or were reverted
Just before the API drama, the instance r/Mexico started censoring insults to politicians and mostly to the president. They started trying to monetize something (I'm not sure how) and they didn't want people screwing things up. They started censoring a lot of content and I abandoned that subreddit. The alternative was a trash place, with racism and general LGBTfobia. Then the API drama started and I just left.
I feel bad for the AI this is going to be trained on this.
AITA was really never the sub you went to for carefully considered prose. Just a bunch of edgy teenagers trying to justify being shitheads.
further proof us lemmyers are morally and intulectually superior 🍷🧐
Meh, sounds just like the general internet stranger rhetoric here too. If you don’t like Reddit… stop posting about Reddit?
I thought bots didn't swear
After all the humans left, they were now free to do as they pleased
Yelling fuck off when the captcha appears doesn't seem to help so I guess they do
This
Reminds me of this joe cappa video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbM25UiTEsQ
Same energy
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This needs a coffee mug
Hell yeah!
Tumblr energy
Sir, this is a Reddit post.
Yikes
I'm gonna guess this is r/amithebuttface or R/AITAH. The actual amitheasshole sub has stricter rules.
To be fair that is probably on a coffee mug
Oh… yikes.
This needs to be a coffee mug!
This needs to be a coffee mug!
This just became my new favorite saying.
Love. This. Comment.
ITT: People who act like they don't go on Reddit.
App doesn't work anymore or I would
tbh i do technically use it. very rarely and only after i search something and it's the only result.