X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam | TechCrunch
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Hopefully Reddit is next. World news, technology, and pretty much every big name subreddit could use a shutdown. I get wayyyy more replies on Lemmy than I ever did on "active" reddit posts with supposedly 4k comments. It got to the point that I would be surprised anytime someone replied to me.
Hi! This is a reply to you! Do you enjoy being social? These are words I am typing! WEEEEEEE!!!!!
I would never see a comment like that on Reddit unless 800 bots upvoted it.
I mean.....in the year 2022 reddit awarded me the 1% award. I just went all year, making my own stupid little comments. I'm only on social media (reddit, and now lemmy) to entertain myself.
Then they gave me this award, and said I was in the top 1% of karma earners for the year.
I still don't know if I should be proud, or ashamed of that.
You have society's permission to be ashoud, under threat of being pramed.
weeeeeweeeeeee!!!!! 🤸♂️
I really liked what /r/SaaS did:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1sl3mrh/just_hit_2k_mrr_after_8_months_of_grinding/
Looks like a post, but the image makes it clear it's bot bait. Reply to the post and get banned. LOL.
Oh it’s easy bb. Hijack top comments and always say things in a controversial way.
r/worldnews has been a Zionist ran and bottled shithole for most if not all of its existence.
The fact Ghislaine Maxwell was proven to be a moderator there, and the fact the rest of those mods knew of and were in on it, should've immediately resulted in a total shutdown.
Aww, they failed to clone the structure of Reddit.
Organized spam is dead. Back to regular spam.
I wonder how much of that spam comes from xAI
X is completely fill with spam! I get 5+ spam PM daily
Glad I deleted my profile last year. Good riddance. I hadn't used it at all since Fascelon took over so it was way overdue.
I mostly post nsfw on it, but since migrating to Mastodon and Bluesky, I get way more traction there.
You post nsfw stuff on social media like on X, BS and Masto?
I do lol
I'm guessing under a pseudonym. 😬
Of course! 😁 I would never use my real name unless somehow I get stupid famous and paid by a studio
Anyone still using corporate social media deserves what they get.