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.
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.
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.
Itโs 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!"
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.
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
It's an excellent chat program (except it's pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn't function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.
It's increasing taking up the role of one. And I'm sad about it.
I might stop being sad if its forum features become more used and Discord massively improved discoverability, but for now it sucks for people googling problems.
My rule of thumb is, if it says, "Join our Discord," I move on. I'll only join a Discord if I want to discuss something, not if I want answers to questions.
Same here, except I won't go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I'd even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.
I just look up YT videos or find a wiki, and 90% of the time I can find my answer that way. It's a lot nicer than trying to figure out where they stuck something on Discord...
On one hand we have to move away from Google. On the other hand information should be made available to people. Hopefully we are just in a transitional phase and this isn't just reigning in a internet dark age.
Yeah.. shooting some nonsense back and forth. But game devs that shoehorn stuff into discord making everything objectively worse while making everything unfindable.. it drives me nuts!
Reddit allows site wide search, and recently contracted with Google to make their content accessible. Also old reddit content is searchable and thread based conversations can be followed.
Discord is just a vast collection of independent black holes that gobble up information and data while its users collectively yell into the void of chat channels.
Yeah, it's just that devs of games guide everyone there and try and shoehorn it in. I don't know how or why devs do this.. just run your own forum with a chat module.
Just say no. I don't join any discord groups for crap like that, if it's not on some public wiki, I don't bother. Most games don't need a community anyway, if I can't find one readily available, I'll enjoy it for what it is and move on to the next one.
Yeah, I've long since stopped using Google. Theres not any search engines I've found that mimic Google in its height, but many of them are better than what Google is now. Even bing.
When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.
At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.
Yeah, at the core, people cause problems when the group gets too big to be a tight knit one. There are also a not insignificant amount of people, who get together, with antisocial behavior in mind. When you have thousands of people, posting on some community forum, it will be impossible for it not have some serious underlying issues. Not to even think of the scale of places like reddit, where that forum could have millions of users.
Back in the day, when IRC ruled the social scene of the internet, it was hard to control a channel that had 100+ people on it, forget about crowds orders of magnitude larger.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
No, you're missing the point. You make up some credible misinformation to poison AI training with, but you don't stop there: you get an LLM to rewrite it for you. Retry until you get a text that sounds credible, doesn't particularly look written by AI, and people will upvote, and post that.
With this, even if the text looks good, you're not only poisoning future models with the misinformation you started with; by feeding them a text generated by an LLM (even if you can't tell the difference at first glance) you're introducing feedback into the model that will also poison it, not with misinformation, but by reinforcing its biases and errors and reducing the variety of its training data.
I think I got the point just fine... you're wasting a ton of electricity and potentially your own money on making text that is not bad training data. Which is exactly what I said would happen.
LLMs are made of billions of lines of text, the last we know is for GPT3 with sources ranging from 570 GB to 45 TB of text. A short reddit comment is quite literally a drop in a swimming pool. It's word prediction ability isnt going to change for the worse if you just post a readable comment. It will simply reinforce it.
And sure you can lie in it, but LLM are trained on fiction as well and have to deal with that as well. There are supplementary techniques they apply to make the AI less prone to hallucinations that dont involve the training data, such as RLHF (Reinforcement learning from humans). But honestly speaking the truth is a dumb thing they try to use the AI for anyways. Its primary function has always been to predict words, not truth.
You would have to do this at such a scale and so succesfully voting wise that by that time you are significantly represented in the data to poison it you are either dead, banned, bankrupt, excluded from the data, or Google will have moved on from Reddit.
If you hate or dislike LLMs and want to stop them, let your voice be known. Talk to people about it. Convincing one person succesfully will be worth more than a thousand reddit comments. Poisoning the data directly is a thing, but it's essentially impossible to inflict alone. It's more a consequence of bad data gathering, bad storage practice, and bad training. None of those are in your control through a reddit comment.
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. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.
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.
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) is just that hilldawg ran a bad campaign that didn't focus enough on swing states (but she won the popular vote, congratulations).
I was one of those. Before Lemmy, nothing was truly an alternative for Reddit. There were alternative Twitter-like sites up the ass and Facebook; but nothing similar to Reddit's layout/presentation.
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.
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.
I've made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn't quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.
Lemmy still has a lot of problems reddit does, just smaller and weirder. It's probably not possible to create a "perfect" social media platform, but there still seems like room for a new type of social network that's federated but isn't a clone of something else.
Civfanatics. I actually joined up long before I ever signed up for Reddit. It's probably the one site besides Youtube that I've consistently used since middle school.
I still use reddit for looking up information even after deleting my account. Yesterday i decided i wanted to compile the zen kernel for fedora. And reddit had the best guide for doing so. And what settings were worth a damn.
What makes you think so? I read hardcore as 'small and tight-knit', exactly the kind of forum that could survive easily on user donations and due to the more personal relationship there's more loss in leaving it. I know some forums that fit that description that are still around now.
I'm sorry to hear that, that's a shame. My experiences are more with gaming communities from the early 2000s, so perhaps my view isn't universally applicable to other hobbies, professions, and such.
Nah, Iโm happy to hear there are still some thriving out there. Gives me hope for the future. Iโve just noticed that Iโm corralled towards Reddit any time I seek out the sorts of discussions that used to happen on forums.
Yeah I can definitely say for a while that was the case for me as well. It's honestly why I like Lemmy, since by the nature of federation it can both be self-contained and owned by the people actually using it, but still kept around even if the specific instance doesn't last forever.
I'm sorry to hear that. For me I've seen far more (relatively) big forums either turn into a discord, a subreddit, or just die out altogether due to being unsustainable for it's cost. Just seems more logical to me that the less personal places have more trouble sustaining themselves, but we can disagree on that.
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.
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.
AI means Reddit will always look alive at a glance.
Like you still get some people complaining that lemmy isnโt active enough for them to leave Reddit, even though theyโre just hanging out with bots all day.
Subs like that are bot farms for sure, but it's been common knowledge for a decade that the default subs are awful. The ratio in smaller subs is probably a lot better.
Besides, I think things did get better there after a while?
Gotta disagree with that. I remember the rampant elitism and tribalism, the shock-culture, isolation of communities, casual bigotry that would make modern 4chan blush, arbitrary forum rules irregularly enforced, etc etc etc.
For all the modern internet's problems, its communities are much more connected, it's much more accessible and less elitist, that shock-culture died out, the casual bigotry became contentious instead of accepted, and corporate running the show on most of these sites means that appeals and reversals are much easier than when you would rub some mod the wrong way and get permabanned from a forum you were a long-time member of. Never happened to me, but I saw it numerous times.
They will also just casually full bore ban you because you were mass reported.
That's what someone I talked to theorized happened to me.
I was banned for posting "I think my right to punch Nazis should be protected by law".
Not kill, murder, maim, I didn't even name any groups where there was a lick of grey area, Nazis, the one group that since WWII, everyone has agreed are alright as a universal bad guy.
I had a 10+ year old account with like 1.5m karma get full stop banned for reasons behind my comprehension. I wasn't doing any overt racism, misogyny, violent rabble rousing... Nothingworse than vehemently disagreeing with somebody and calling them an idiot or a clown.
I only suspect I triggered a nerve which got me mass reported to an extent that I got caught in the dragnet. Being disagreeable was a ban worthy offensive maybe??
Overly sensitive fuckwits with brittle feelings. I am the same ol' dumbass I always was but the culture shifted towards "business casual" away from being more like "diet 4chan"
I had an account of similar magnitude banned. Why? Because on January 6th, on the very day, I wondered aloud why there weren't soldiers repelling the crowd of insurrectionists trying to overthrow our democracy with machine gun fire. I'm sorry, but if a crowd of thousands of people shows up with the intent of hanging the vice president and overthrowing the government? Well, you made your choice if you're in that group. The correct response to a group like that is to first give them plenty of warning. But if they persist, use whatever force is necessary to repel them.
Other things I've been banned for:
Telling an overt bigot posting in an LGBT sub to go kindly "go die in a fire."
Suggesting, before the ruling, that if SCOTUS ruled that the president was completely above the law that he should simply drone strike Supreme Court justices to produce a majority on the court that would repeal his new powers.
Evading bogus bans.
At this point I've got a lifetime ban from there. And you know what? I'm fine with it. The policies on reddit remind me of the blind "zero tolerance" policies that have screwed over so many in American high schools. When I was in high school years ago, the standard was "zero tolerance" for violence of any kind. If a bully attacked a victim, they would both get in trouble. Being the victim was no defense. It was zero tolerance, zero thought. And that is the standard that is now used on reddit. They'll still allow racist dogwhistles and entire subreddits run by hate groups, but as long as you don't cross a handful of explicit lines, you're fine. You can openly celebrate the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Gaza, but tell one bigot to go die in a fire, and suddenly you're banned.
4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool
Reddit is cool?
Ah, the olโ lemmy switcheroo!
hold my
beerlingerie, i'm going in!I think they meant that hating on reddit is cool.
Yeah, this makes more sense
Yeah but what good has ever come from 4chan?
Always seemed like a place for people to be subversive and provide a haven for hate and degeneracy.
I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.
true.
anyway, fuck spez.
70 >:)
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.
And it's still a circle-jerk
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.
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.
There are no users left. It's bots all the way through, like maggots in a rotting corpse.
holy fuck, i didnt know it was quite that bad
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.
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.
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..???
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.
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
Many left with the API closing, and the site did fall apart, soooo....
17m members and only 2 posts in the last 24 hours as of right now lol
It's tragic, really. Reddit used to be great. Enshittification sucks.
It dies every time someone stops using it.
The bots will continue to churn like npcs in an abandoned mmo.
Disenchantment is the little death.
That's not what the Frenchman told me
FYI it's the female (only?) orgasm ...
French being french ofc...
Omelette au petit mort...
DU FROMAGE* YOU HEATHEN.
Dexter is a fucking nerd.
No, fear is the mind killer.
Its a joke son. ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
No You!
-Lady Jessica
The spice must flow
I'd argue discord is even worse.
Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out
It's an excellent chat program (except it's pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn't function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.
Well yeah, because it's not a forum.
It's increasing taking up the role of one. And I'm sad about it.
I might stop being sad if its forum features become more used and Discord massively improved discoverability, but for now it sucks for people googling problems.
My rule of thumb is, if it says, "Join our Discord," I move on. I'll only join a Discord if I want to discuss something, not if I want answers to questions.
Same here, except I won't go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I'd even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.
That's cool in principle, but what if I actually want help?
I just look up YT videos or find a wiki, and 90% of the time I can find my answer that way. It's a lot nicer than trying to figure out where they stuck something on Discord...
On one hand we have to move away from Google. On the other hand information should be made available to people. Hopefully we are just in a transitional phase and this isn't just reigning in a internet dark age.
Well I said Google but ideally that would be "a healthy market of several competing quality search engines".
Right now I think we only have Google and Bing. (Lots of alternatives like DuckDuckGo ultimately use Google I think)
Yeah.. shooting some nonsense back and forth. But game devs that shoehorn stuff into discord making everything objectively worse while making everything unfindable.. it drives me nuts!
username checks out
discord requires a phone number to create an account. hard pass.
Most toxic moderators of large subreddits does come from discord.
Oh definitely. At least Reddit can be searched (let's see for how long though)
That's an adult themed subreddit. You'll need to sign in on the app thanks!
1 terms and conditions do apply
2 you need an account for some subreddits
3 you also need the app for some subreddits
It's a toss up, for me. Both managed to capture all discussion on major open source projects.
Yeah, I feel dirty for even saying this....
Reddit allows site wide search, and recently contracted with Google to make their content accessible. Also old reddit content is searchable and thread based conversations can be followed.
Discord is just a vast collection of independent black holes that gobble up information and data while its users collectively yell into the void of chat channels.
Yeah, it's just that devs of games guide everyone there and try and shoehorn it in. I don't know how or why devs do this.. just run your own forum with a chat module.
Just say no. I don't join any discord groups for crap like that, if it's not on some public wiki, I don't bother. Most games don't need a community anyway, if I can't find one readily available, I'll enjoy it for what it is and move on to the next one.
Why is lemmy obsessed with talking about its ex
Goes to Google and types in a search
Reddit
Reddit
Forum post that links back to Reddit
YouTube that's just a bunch of screenshots of Reddit over an automated voice
Reddit again
Why won't my ex leave me the fuck alone?
Reddit actually solved that problem for me by blocking themselves from appearing in Bing search results.
Christ, don't make me switch to Bing.
Just switch to Duck Duck Go. It's Bing with less spying on you.
Either DuckDuckGo or Startpage both are quite decent and serve the same purpose.
Im on searxng so i still see reddit but i dont comment or post.
Ahh that explains why Ecosia has remained so pleasant to use. Bing can't scrape it anymore ๐
Oh boy... Just wait until they go full into Gemini. They're starting to use Gemini and AI in general for search capabilities.
Yeah, I've long since stopped using Google. Theres not any search engines I've found that mimic Google in its height, but many of them are better than what Google is now. Even bing.
She did me dirty bro she deserves it
That's just the way it is.
When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.
At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.
No Fark? No Plastic?
Agreed. Lemmy has its own issues .
Yeah, at the core, people cause problems when the group gets too big to be a tight knit one. There are also a not insignificant amount of people, who get together, with antisocial behavior in mind. When you have thousands of people, posting on some community forum, it will be impossible for it not have some serious underlying issues. Not to even think of the scale of places like reddit, where that forum could have millions of users.
Back in the day, when IRC ruled the social scene of the internet, it was hard to control a channel that had 100+ people on it, forget about crowds orders of magnitude larger.
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.
I have literally over a hundred permabanned accounts on that site.
That's impressive, I think I've got half a dozen.
I timed it once, took me just over a minute to make a new account.
I found they caught on quick to alt accounts though.
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.
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.
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."
Make sure to have some LLM generate the comment for you, as LLMs learning synthetic data may fuck them up over time: AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
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.
No, you're missing the point. You make up some credible misinformation to poison AI training with, but you don't stop there: you get an LLM to rewrite it for you. Retry until you get a text that sounds credible, doesn't particularly look written by AI, and people will upvote, and post that.
With this, even if the text looks good, you're not only poisoning future models with the misinformation you started with; by feeding them a text generated by an LLM (even if you can't tell the difference at first glance) you're introducing feedback into the model that will also poison it, not with misinformation, but by reinforcing its biases and errors and reducing the variety of its training data.
I think I got the point just fine... you're wasting a ton of electricity and potentially your own money on making text that is not bad training data. Which is exactly what I said would happen.
LLMs are made of billions of lines of text, the last we know is for GPT3 with sources ranging from 570 GB to 45 TB of text. A short reddit comment is quite literally a drop in a swimming pool. It's word prediction ability isnt going to change for the worse if you just post a readable comment. It will simply reinforce it.
And sure you can lie in it, but LLM are trained on fiction as well and have to deal with that as well. There are supplementary techniques they apply to make the AI less prone to hallucinations that dont involve the training data, such as RLHF (Reinforcement learning from humans). But honestly speaking the truth is a dumb thing they try to use the AI for anyways. Its primary function has always been to predict words, not truth.
You would have to do this at such a scale and so succesfully voting wise that by that time you are significantly represented in the data to poison it you are either dead, banned, bankrupt, excluded from the data, or Google will have moved on from Reddit.
If you hate or dislike LLMs and want to stop them, let your voice be known. Talk to people about it. Convincing one person succesfully will be worth more than a thousand reddit comments. Poisoning the data directly is a thing, but it's essentially impossible to inflict alone. It's more a consequence of bad data gathering, bad storage practice, and bad training. None of those are in your control through a reddit comment.
this is an ancient and noble practice known as shitposting, no need to call it something else :)
"ruins the Internet"? This coming from 4chan? That's rich
4chan is kinda the sump of the Internet. All the crud sinks there.
Shit usually floats.
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. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.
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.
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) is just that hilldawg ran a bad campaign that didn't focus enough on swing states (but she won the popular vote, congratulations).
QAnon started on 4chan lol
4chan doesn't nearly have the kind of traffic to ever have ruined the internet.
It used to. Used to be the #1 most visited website worldwide for many years.
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.
So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.
I was one of those. Before Lemmy, nothing was truly an alternative for Reddit. There were alternative Twitter-like sites up the ass and Facebook; but nothing similar to Reddit's layout/presentation.
Reddit doesnโt even like Reddit.
It's like a teenager.
Forgot
โข A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.
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.
It's not exactly a replacement, but TV tropes provides a lot of satisfaction on this front.
Abandon all hope ye who enter there!
We have discussion posts from time to time on [email protected]
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.
Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.
It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.
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.
at this point I get like 75% fuck spez/etc post edits instead
You still have to filter through bots posing as real people replies on some posts high in google results
I use it less and less. I only really visit two sub reddit, and one of them has been really declining as it has grown.
To be fair reddit is still better than some instances of lemmy
If you use Inoreader, you can just skip going to it for the most part.
Please elaborate
No.
I've made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn't quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.
Lemmy still has a lot of problems reddit does, just smaller and weirder. It's probably not possible to create a "perfect" social media platform, but there still seems like room for a new type of social network that's federated but isn't a clone of something else.
What's your favorite forum?
Civfanatics. I actually joined up long before I ever signed up for Reddit. It's probably the one site besides Youtube that I've consistently used since middle school.
It's about the Civilization games?
Yes.
I still use reddit for looking up information even after deleting my account. Yesterday i decided i wanted to compile the zen kernel for fedora. And reddit had the best guide for doing so. And what settings were worth a damn.
The hardcore forums survived.
Are you kidding? They were some of the first to go.
What makes you think so? I read hardcore as 'small and tight-knit', exactly the kind of forum that could survive easily on user donations and due to the more personal relationship there's more loss in leaving it. I know some forums that fit that description that are still around now.
None of the small tight knit ones I used have survived outside of VI Control. But even the remaining ones are barely turned up by search engines.
I'm sorry to hear that, that's a shame. My experiences are more with gaming communities from the early 2000s, so perhaps my view isn't universally applicable to other hobbies, professions, and such.
Nah, Iโm happy to hear there are still some thriving out there. Gives me hope for the future. Iโve just noticed that Iโm corralled towards Reddit any time I seek out the sorts of discussions that used to happen on forums.
Yeah I can definitely say for a while that was the case for me as well. It's honestly why I like Lemmy, since by the nature of federation it can both be self-contained and owned by the people actually using it, but still kept around even if the specific instance doesn't last forever.
So so so many of my old favorite forms are dead. I'm not sure I agree with you
I'm sorry to hear that. For me I've seen far more (relatively) big forums either turn into a discord, a subreddit, or just die out altogether due to being unsustainable for it's cost. Just seems more logical to me that the less personal places have more trouble sustaining themselves, but we can disagree on that.
Nobody likes reddit. Nobody. Everyone is just stuck with it and spez's dumbass moneygrubbing bullshit.
I wonder how long that'll last now that's it a public company (or will be? I actually haven't kept up on it too much)
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.
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.
Yeah, the name was picking up steam. If they hadn't fucked it up that name would be been gold in 1 or 2 years.
It's a catchy name.
Since about 2018, Iโve gotten the sense that most internet users know about Reddit, but are embarrassed to admit they know about Reddit.
AI means Reddit will always look alive at a glance.
Like you still get some people complaining that lemmy isnโt active enough for them to leave Reddit, even though theyโre just hanging out with bots all day.
Will the bots be what ends it?
Eventually it'll be all bots jerking themselves off
AI really is taking our jobs, huh?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/8244505
Half the users may as well be bots anyway, it's just dorks yelling the same catch phrases at each other in the comments.
Have a look at r/wholesomememes; they 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.
Much more than half the users are bots.
Subs like that are bot farms for sure, but it's been common knowledge for a decade that the default subs are awful. The ratio in smaller subs is probably a lot better.
Besides, I think things did get better there after a while?
I just had a look... there were four posts yesterday.
Seven the day before.
For a sub with over 17 million subscribers.
It doesn't look much better, I'd say.
They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s
My account has been banned for like 2 years but I can still watch porn so idc.
"Ruins the internet"
I happen to remember the forum culture of the mid-late 2000s. It wasn't that great.
I do recall that people were extraordinarily toxic online. Reddit for a few years was a breath of fresh air but then got too big.
It was better though. Wouldn't call it good. But definitely better.
Gotta disagree with that. I remember the rampant elitism and tribalism, the shock-culture, isolation of communities, casual bigotry that would make modern 4chan blush, arbitrary forum rules irregularly enforced, etc etc etc.
For all the modern internet's problems, its communities are much more connected, it's much more accessible and less elitist, that shock-culture died out, the casual bigotry became contentious instead of accepted, and corporate running the show on most of these sites means that appeals and reversals are much easier than when you would rub some mod the wrong way and get permabanned from a forum you were a long-time member of. Never happened to me, but I saw it numerous times.
Yes, but if you didn't like one forum you just move on to the next. Today there are very few active forums left.
It was pretty great, actually. So much creativity, everyone has a normal voice, no YouTube celebrities
...
You might be wearing nostalgia goggles.
It started out great. It went to shit.
Wish I could experience it
It had unique pieces, and a lot that I genuinely miss. But... there was also a LOT of bullshit that wouldn't pass muster nowadays.
It was dead to me over here until you posted about it. Want a reddit hate circle jerk updoot buddy?
They will also just casually full bore ban you because you were mass reported.
That's what someone I talked to theorized happened to me.
I was banned for posting "I think my right to punch Nazis should be protected by law".
Not kill, murder, maim, I didn't even name any groups where there was a lick of grey area, Nazis, the one group that since WWII, everyone has agreed are alright as a universal bad guy.
I had a 10+ year old account with like 1.5m karma get full stop banned for reasons behind my comprehension. I wasn't doing any overt racism, misogyny, violent rabble rousing... Nothingworse than vehemently disagreeing with somebody and calling them an idiot or a clown.
I only suspect I triggered a nerve which got me mass reported to an extent that I got caught in the dragnet. Being disagreeable was a ban worthy offensive maybe??
Overly sensitive fuckwits with brittle feelings. I am the same ol' dumbass I always was but the culture shifted towards "business casual" away from being more like "diet 4chan"
I had an account of similar magnitude banned. Why? Because on January 6th, on the very day, I wondered aloud why there weren't soldiers repelling the crowd of insurrectionists trying to overthrow our democracy with machine gun fire. I'm sorry, but if a crowd of thousands of people shows up with the intent of hanging the vice president and overthrowing the government? Well, you made your choice if you're in that group. The correct response to a group like that is to first give them plenty of warning. But if they persist, use whatever force is necessary to repel them.
Other things I've been banned for:
At this point I've got a lifetime ban from there. And you know what? I'm fine with it. The policies on reddit remind me of the blind "zero tolerance" policies that have screwed over so many in American high schools. When I was in high school years ago, the standard was "zero tolerance" for violence of any kind. If a bully attacked a victim, they would both get in trouble. Being the victim was no defense. It was zero tolerance, zero thought. And that is the standard that is now used on reddit. They'll still allow racist dogwhistles and entire subreddits run by hate groups, but as long as you don't cross a handful of explicit lines, you're fine. You can openly celebrate the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Gaza, but tell one bigot to go die in a fire, and suddenly you're banned.
"If ever there was a time when force is appropriate, a mob violently forcing their way into the Capitol would be it."
Dude I once got banned from a sub for quoting the first Captain America movie. Punch a Nazi every day!
Not soon enough.
Reddit is garbage because of the mods.
Damn you for that
/s
Look, I also left Reddit because it got worse, but this just reads like "I said something racist and people got mad" to me.
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