Even before the insane number of bots that are on reddit today, I believe that subreddit was one of the main ways for astroturf accounts to gain karma quickly. They knew that everyone was just there to look at happy things and would upvote heavily.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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It's been so surface level, basic and pseudo inspirational for years
Agreed. I remember joining that one at some point and I left so fast. Completely vapid.
for real!! i browsed it a few years ago and like all of the mental health posts were as good as those 'your life int a movie dont end it' youtube comments
People finally find a place to be happy and bots come and ruin it. I hate robots.
Be better: hate the humans who deployed the bots.
Be better: hate the system that incentivizes deploying bots.
I've got enough hate for everything.
Lmk if y'all need any extra, I'm seethin' over here
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Even knowing that, it was a nice reprieve from the trash everywhere else.
Back in the 90s there was an article about some “spam king” guy who was blasting out millions of emails and basically crushing mail servers and making inboxes useless. They interviewed him and he was all indignant about it like “I have the right to do this” and all that.
That is when I knew the internet and humanity was doomed from the start.
There's a Wikipedia page about him:
He looks exactly as I envisioned him
Good thing this picture was taken on a gameboy camera.
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So....if dead internet theory has gone into effect, does that mean adverts are basically just a medium of wealth circulation between tech bros in a circle jerk?
Sounds spot on to me
Bots advertising to bots, it really is a boring dystopia...
I'd estimate as much as 50% of the entire community left on Reddit are bots. I've seen people being downvoted systemically, just for saying completely ordinary things that aren't even controversial.
Idk if they did something to the feed but the quality is atrocious. Half of the posts are upvote farming, thirst posts or weird askreddit posts.
Occassionally there are bice posts but Reddit fell of heavily. I think I'd rather scroll memes on my Insta feed (if I do it once every few weeks) than Reddit.
Lemmys memes are alright if a bit too much pro-linus/bash-windows
Lemmys memes are alright if a bit too much pro-linus/bash-windows
Your chance to go against the flow!
Regardless of quality of each system, it's understandable that Lemmy's userbase would lean more towards Linux as the reasons for using both instead of the dominant alternative are similar. Also Linux works really well for most stuff you'd do on Windows compared to 20 years ago.
But yeah it becomes somewhat annoying when people base a part of their identity on it. Then again, this is always true, regardless of topic at hand.
Your chance to go against the flow!
Tbf I was and am always more of a lurker and maybe a commenter.
My philosophy is that if I have no OC thing to post, I won't. And I have never (to my knowledge) reposted a meme and only cross-posted one.
Regarding the Linux thing: I like Linux but I have my personal issues with it (for example: >50 different ways to set a static IP). But I can not say anything against it being not stable. And I like it as a server OS. But I don't see it yet outside of a steam deck (I think linux users call that an immutable OS?) and servers. Desktop is still a bit clunky.
BUT Windows aint much better in a load of other bs. So it's a solid 50:50
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I mean I've seen that here as well via kbin back when I used it, just at a smaller scale.
Wholesome meme: Kill All Humans.
--Bender
You have no idea how many nihilistic eco-fascists would unironically agree that "Kill all humans" is indeed a wholesome sentiment.
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*except Fry
autocorrect appears to have turned "wholesomememes" into "wholesomeness" in your title
Thanks, updated! Not sure you'll see the update on Mbin, there seems to be some issues on that side
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Other than bots, who else is even still on Reddit...? :-P It's bots interacting with bots, all the way down.
Bots and average people who used the Reddit app and don't know what Linux is
And don't post, apparently, only doom scroll to consume bot-produced content.
Unlike here on Lemmy, where we repost memes from Reddit:-). (j/k, there are some true heroes here who truly produce content and we love them for it!)
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Most of reddit seems to be bots posts now, or reddit employees. They shot themselves in the chest when they did their greedy deeds.
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Oh no. Have they tried insulting their mods, taking away their perfectly fine moderation tools, replacing them with objectively worse advertisement-delivery-first apps and taunting everybody who disagrees with that decision before forcibly suppressing any protests and banning dissenting voices? Maybe that'll help making the sub attractive for content creators.
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How do you even ban reposts though without mods constantly scanning the queue. Make the subreddit OC only?
there are bots who are able to check if a image is a repost or not and they can then remove the post if it's a repost.
Begun the Bot War has.
Lol I feel like any big sub would see a similar drop in quantity.
Sadie to hear, I used to mod for that subreddit and i felt like I was making a difference. I haven't been a mod for years and haven't been on reddit in 2.
A meme is by definition a repost though. The reuse is literally what makes it a meme.
Yes, but identical posts within a short time frame is just spam.
You hit one of my weak spots.
Person puts text on an image "look everyone, I made a meme!"
I've accepted that this fight is lost
Could the same thing happen on the Fediverse? I mean could a community get overrun by bot posters without any actual humans posting? I'm not sure what the endgame of doing that would be.
There was/is a few communities that are just bots mirroring a similar community on reddit. No idea if those got canned though.
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