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TLDR Bots can be good, bots can also be bad. We need to find a balance.

I feel the value of Reddit, Lemmy, and any similar platform does not come from the post itself but (a) the interactions within the comments and (b) the sorting based on votes.

These two features make information here reliable and obtaining reliable information becomes more productive.

For example, an article expresses information verified by a single person or a team, but when that article is posted here many people read it and share their opinion. I can go through the comments and determine how bullshit or not that article is. Also, the comments contain quotes, summaries and relevant information which one would have to spend hours researching. Lastly, when multiple articles are posted on a community sorting allows me to find the articles worth my time.

It does not matter if the post was created by a bot, but whether humans interacted with it.

With all that, I would like to agree with some people here that bots can be a threat. If the content they produce overwhelms the humans interacting with the content.

If human content is buried under thousands of bot posts, noone will interact with it. We need lemmings to feel they are valued by their communities, they shouldn't have to compete with emotionless robots.

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Go figure.

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I won a competition during university, we had to implement a sorting algorithm with MIPS, however required the least cycles to run won.

I need someone to be impressed by me today, even if it's for something stupid I did almost a decade ago.

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Non-Medication Management?

Been trying to manage without medication for quite sometime.

When I was able to consistently run daily, it helped, but keeping a habit is really hard for me.

Also, having a healthy diet helped, while I was able to maintain it.

Overall, I am not doing a great job so far, I hope you have better luck.

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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?

Fuck, I am getting older.

I created my account during high school, now I am 25.

To be honest, I am grateful for the journey. I found Reddit when I needed it, I was spending too much time on 9gag and wanted to find something more productive to waste my time on. Reddit was, and still is, more than that.

TwoXChromosomes and gonewildstories are two subs that literally redefined my person.

I haven't deleted my account, nor do I plan to. But, I haven't used Reddit since my birthday on June 12th. I have been into the idea of the fediverse long before I first read about it, and I am here for the long run.

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lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead backfires by increasing awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.

(I needed a lesson myself)

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It's been a moment since I took the monotropism questionnaire, but I scored in the 200s.

The title makes me think that you discovered the monotropism questionnaire from the relevant video from "I am autistic, now what?". In case you haven't watched the video, maybe it's a good intro.

Other than that, I am myself trying to answer the same question. For me learning about autism has helped a lot. There have been a lot of moments of "doesn't everybody do that?" and "oh, that's why!".

If there are problems that lead to you taking the questionnaire, maybe it's worth seeking guidance from a professional. Though, sometimes it's hard to get proper help.

Regardless, if the result is true or not, it's worth it to take a look at your day to day life, see how monotropism is affecting you and if you can make any changes that would help. For example, at some point I realized one of the reasons I was avoiding hanging the laundry out to dry is that I hate touching wet fabrics, and mentally preparing myself for it made it a lot more bearable (still icky though).

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I've decided to create competition with my own employment

First of all, this post got me a bit worried about your mental health, is it possible you are under a lot of stress lately?

You are expressing something that I have been thinking too lately. Third parties, aka recruiters in this case, cannot be impartial if they are paid by one of the parties involved.

If you have an issue with your employer, you don't go to the HR, you get a lawyer. A person fully representing your interest, equipped with the knowledge to actually do that.

I think the same should be the case for employment seeking. It's not that you cannot build a network of colleagues, keep up with market trends, navigate legalities, and identify whatever new bullshit benefit companies are offering. But, delegating this job to a person/entity that specialises in it would most of the time be better.

Last but not least, I don't think the term recruiter is appropriate, and I believe transitional recruiters are not going to be willing to help you.

Best wishes on your effort!! Please keep us to date, I am interested to see where this leads!!