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[–] [email protected] 307 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet

No they aren't. Those users have long since left Reddit lol

[–] [email protected] 133 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, it’s a playground for bots and misinformation now

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i started visiting reddit back around 2009 when places like digg and fark kept linking over there. i liked it because it had a design that the average person wouldn't like - the old design. they sorted comments in a new way that i liked. it's been a slow boil, but look at the reddit monstrosity now. the redesign is puke-inducing, and there really isn't any point in the vote sorting any more because people don't upvote for visibility any more insomuch as just use it as like/dislike. there isn't even any benefit in trying to point that out any more either, because today's reddit users just don't understand that approach to votes - and it really, really sucks.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hmmm, perhaps people should start linking threads from here on reddit....

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Believe it or not: straight to jail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't reddit be the jail in this situation?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Heh. Don't do that from an account that you like or has a lot of karma.

Reddit admins are a bunch of shit eating peckerwoods now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I want to upvote this because I like it, but now I'm conflicted because I don't want to inadvertently abuse the upvote mechanism.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

yo - upvote it if you think it's worth it for other people to see it, whether you agree with it or not. it might spark a debate. it might sway opinion. but either way, voting for visibility is the best thing to do on a SMALL forum like this. Appreciate lemmy while it's still small!!!

AND fwiw - your upvotes should probably not be monitored. that would just be a huge dick move (sorry, it took me a sec).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Im not going to upvote something if I don't agree with it. I understand the power of voting, it increases or decreases visibility. But I am not going to willingly increase the visibility of something I don't agree with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Imagine if someone comments with what you see as a stupid take, but phrases it as a legitimate question indicating a willingness and even eagerness to learn: I often upvote such, bc that's an attitude that I'd like to see more of. The alternative for them would be to keep silent and remain in their ignorance?

Conversely, someone that says "^This" - I may likewise agree with whatever they responded to, but that's what upvotes on the latter content is for, and there's no need to also upvote the former along with that.

[–] brbposting 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Considering e.g. a thoughtful, insightful, well-researched post with a conclusion we completely disagree with and feel is likely to lead to negative outcomes - but is still a perspective that should be understood if we want to be well rounded:

Binary up/downvotes have a really hard time of capturing what we want to see reflected as our assessment.

Edit: blessed be thy highly-voted child comment

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As someone from the U.S., it seems like that concept has practically disappeared from the country. The nuances of civil debate, including the acknowledgement of differing opinions as valid, don't exist in most of our popular media (both traditional and social.) We've been conditioned to react to things immediately and intensely using our emotions instead. There has been a slide toward this state for decades, but it's come to the point where a lot of people genuinely struggle with separating "thing they personally disagree with/don't like" from "thing that shouldn't be said/heard/shared."

(Not saying that's the case with OP, just that it's definitely a thing that's been going on.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

that's exactly the ideal! i know it feels weird these days to upvote something you don't like, but it isn't about what you like. it's about what you're showing approval for to the next person.

I don't know if you like music like this, but it made me smile so why not share? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW48BueSJzo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same as any social media site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Reportedly Reddit was not always that way though, earlier on.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I feel like the admins over there really take for granted how much people care about Reddit. The more they degrade the sense of community, the more it continues to crumble until users feel that there’s no point in going back.

With how many posts are just pure AI generated rage bait, it’s becoming more clear by the day how little worth there is left on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It likely looks to them as if the accounts that remain to be moderated are humans, the same as it was in the past, even though it's no longer that way now.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

[deleted] is a common user name there!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did they change the way things are formatted? Such as the [removed] comments now just appearing as [deleted]? Deleted would imply the users removed their own content while removed would imply the mods or admins removed it, at least that’s how things have always been. However, I have only been seeing a sea of [deleted] lately.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

After the API kerfuffle, a lot of users who left also used tools to completely erase their content from the site, which explains the sea of [deleted] posts and users. You may also see comments and text body posts that are full of incoherent gibberish because one of the tools didn't delete the content in the normal way, it simply edited the content to be a bunch of random gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

it simply edited the content to be a bunch of random gibberish.

I used a tool that did this. I also used it on purpose because I figured it would make the content more difficult to farm. Lots of software doesn't actually delete anything when you delete it, but it's a lot more work to put versioning in and then you'd have to go search the version history to find a version that wasn't mangled to farm it...so that'll all theoretically make it more difficult for them to find what I originally wrote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i just ended up deleted all my comments on my last 2 accts, so they cant be farmed, unless reddit undeletes them. wonder when reddit is going to pull a FB ressurection, revives your account but controlled by AI bots for right wing disinformation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They've already been caught doing that - well, not for disinformation spreading but for engagement appearance, around the time Reddit was doing its IPO so needed to hike its stats to give to advertisers as quickly as possible. While entire posts, comment for comment, though with different usernames but the identical responses to the identical questions, and then deeper responses to those, and so forth.

So they don't need the appearance of older accounts - they can manufacturer whatever they need, from scratch already. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they created "10 year old" accounts at will.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think they care, they already got their payday by going public.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

they get thier money from google and openai.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

13 years there and millions in karma. I left when they chose to become Zionists and hate-mongers

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

worldnews was a plague, i had to block that sub. i was also reminding people in pics sub how the pict was about gaza and it wash bashing on biden pushing propaganda, and also gaza conflicts in the past had very little effect on elections, i just block and report those people. mostly it was inappropiate for that sub too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I never understood WorldNews. I said back in November pretty plainly that Trump won and so I fear that America would eventually leave or attack NATO. I said I was afraid that Trump would side with Russia outright. That we would abandon our allies in the Pacific, too. That our inaction would create a gap for China to fill. That the gap might be big enough to embolden China who then might make moves on Taiwan.

And I was downvoted (which is fine) but the comments I got were kind of bewildering. The people who engaged with me were trying to convince me that Trump would never side with Russia and there is no evidence ever of this.

And of course here we are now. And all of these things are happening.

The whole Gaza thing you mention—I understand the outrage—but I wonder how much of it online was manufactured in places like Pics because of the election.

Seeing the conversations here on Lemmy makes me think…there’s something very weird going on on Reddit. I’ve rode out Reddit drama over the past 12 years. This is not the narwhal at midnight website. This is something very dark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, but note that it was happening here as well. Certain places here were HIGHLY active in the BoTh SiDeS sAmE activity, just prior to the USA election, and similarly influenced other elections world-wide. Learn which places these are, so that you can take full advantage of the Fediverse, which isn't "a place" so much as a forum software that allows many many places to share their content - but all sides here are NOT equally dedicated to truthiness.

Here is one example:

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Judge for yourself what you think might be the intention for making and spreading it... although if we are going by the mantra of the effects that it may have caused possibly being the reason for which it was made, it looks to me to suggest that people in the USA should not be enthusiastic about voting or encouraging others to vote for Kamala Harris.

Edit: to be clear I'm not suggesting that Lemmy is "the same" as Reddit - in some ways we are worse here, being even more authoritian than Reddit was (or rather "is" I guess:-P), but in other ways it's so, so much better, in that we can pack up and move to another instance and simply carry on, having access to the vast majority of content as before (exceptions include defederations and a DM directed to our old account won't follow us), which was (oops, "is" again:-) not true for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

People should be free to vote outside the two party system with no spoiler effect. Changing how we vote will let people vote how they want and still have their vote count against the Republicans.

Why are the democrats saying no to these votes? Why do they continue to use the voting system republicans prefer in blue states they control?

Videos on Electoral Reform

First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

Videos on alternative electoral systems we can try out.

STAR voting

Alternative vote

Ranked Choice voting

Range Voting

Single Transferable Vote

Mixed Member Proportional representation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still see active accounts over a decade old

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

rather suspicious since only bots have those types of accts, i have a hunch reddit is actually accessing those accts or allowing bots to take over the accts. i heard people couldnt log back into thier old accts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

There are bots too but you can tell a bot. Usually anyway.

They didn't all leave. It's not a hive mind. Especially since reddit got popular and the original base got fragmented and whatever.