Technology

Noticed this on reddit's All/Hot in the last two years or so. Not even just the posts but the comments in particular were very Bot-like. Front page was almost all recycled reposts and thinly veiled marketing.

Before doing Lemmy full time I scrolled through Red with the official app just to see if I could compromise somewhere, but it smelt of Dead Internet to me.

Dead Internet Theory in short is a conspiracy theory that most of the Internet is just algorithms and bots posting back and forth at each other for marketing purposes and to nudge people's beliefs. It's dead because theres hardly any humans posting.

Well, it sucks. A certain South African Dutch chump with a Napoleon complex is 90% of the reason why.

Twitter's so annoying, they constantly show me the same ads. Was it different before Musk?

Good. Let it die.

I don't get group chats. It seems like the worst parts of IRC had a baby with the worst part of internet forums and created a thing destined to make you always late to the party.

I really like that Signal let's you do group stories, it works really well for this.

Some of my groups have great participation and it's a great place to send all the random links we send.

More people need to know about pixelfed. It is basically very much the old IG.

I have been wanting to get back to making stuff on social media but due to work and no longer being the IDGAF teenager I get nervous on what to talk about.

Like I was hoping to do a podcast for my Facebook friends but I only uploaded one episode cause I want to do a few about how work sucks. But then I worry it'll be depressing.