It’s interesting that whenever I post about this on any site there’s always at least one person who shows up to post random pro-reddit lies. Such as “you were banned for spreading misinformation” or “you were banned for account sharing because you used the same email across multiple accounts”, along with various other insults of course.
The pro-reddit astroturfing on reddit was quite blatant during the recent API protests, but Reddit’s tentacles are far-reaching to other sites as well.
Even in this thread, the majority of comments and votes are clearly not “organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash”.
A bunch of the comments in this thread seem to be from people with an agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.
More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.
You are not the only one to think these thoughts. Check out the article linked here if you want a fascinating read - I could not put it down! Except I had to, for breakfast then work, but doing so really bugged me!:-P It was just so PERFECTLY aligned with what I had been thinking myself also, which the Reddit protests had spawned in me: in short, Reddit’s actions were evil, but it may have done us a lot of good actually… if we pay attention and learn from it all. i.e., the problem was never Reddit, but inside of us all along. Okay so Reddit is also a problem - or a whole series of them actually:-P - but also it is our natural inclination to go that “easy” route, which for-profit corporations are very much looking to exploit, but also there are free ways to reach that same end (which is not a good end).
Thanks! Yes, I’ve read that one, it’s good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Lemmy is the answer. The vast majority of comments in this thread are worse than what you find on reddit.
It probably depends on the magazine… but yeah, people are still people:-).
A lot of the contributors to Reddit refuse to move to Lemmy/Kbin, and at this point I do not blame them - e.g. my notifications have not been working for over a week now, plus ~80% of the time whenever I try to upvote or boost something, it forgets who I am and I have to login again (actually it’s not a probability thing: it seems if I do something within seconds of visiting a page it always works, while after a threshold is passed then it never works). Plus on kbin.social at least I believe there are no moderation tools at all. Given how hard I’m being trolled on Reddit (b/c I did not kowtow to a hardcore cadre of power aboosers), I could only imagine how horrible the experience would be if even mods could not remove things? (or… something? easily? at all? I do not know the details) This technology just was never ready for deployment at this stage, and especially kbin.social still seems to be in the alpha software stage. Ofc, even so I am still enjoying it more than Reddit, whenever I do get to speak with an intelligent person, like now:-).
Yep, I moved my communities to a forum instead of Lemmy https://lemmy.world/post/3490614 due to Lemmy being in such an early stage of development. The only “mod tool” is the “delete” button as far as I know.
It’s interesting that whenever I post about this on any site there’s always at least one person who shows up to post random pro-reddit lies. Such as “you were banned for spreading misinformation” or “you were banned for account sharing because you used the same email across multiple accounts”, along with various other insults of course.
The pro-reddit astroturfing on reddit was quite blatant during the recent API protests, but Reddit’s tentacles are far-reaching to other sites as well.
On the flip side, it could be a Russian troll farm, and Reddit is not even aware of these efforts made on their behalf!?:-P
Certainly possible. There are also many entities that have invested in reddit who have an interest in reddit’s continued growth.
Even in this thread, the majority of comments and votes are clearly not “organic from intelligent people who fled reddit because it was trash”.
A bunch of the comments in this thread seem to be from people with an agenda who asked GPT chat “how can I insult someone and attack them with ad hominems without breaking lemmy.world’s rules?”.
More and more I’m thinking that social media is just screwed. There is no viable alternative to the old reddit in sight. It’s all bots, special interest groups fighting for influence, and low-intelligence people sucking up mindless fluff content and regurgitating garbage.
You are not the only one to think these thoughts. Check out the article linked here if you want a fascinating read - I could not put it down! Except I had to, for breakfast then work, but doing so really bugged me!:-P It was just so PERFECTLY aligned with what I had been thinking myself also, which the Reddit protests had spawned in me: in short, Reddit’s actions were evil, but it may have done us a lot of good actually… if we pay attention and learn from it all. i.e., the problem was never Reddit, but inside of us all along. Okay so Reddit is also a problem - or a whole series of them actually:-P - but also it is our natural inclination to go that “easy” route, which for-profit corporations are very much looking to exploit, but also there are free ways to reach that same end (which is not a good end).
Thanks! Yes, I’ve read that one, it’s good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Lemmy is the answer. The vast majority of comments in this thread are worse than what you find on reddit.
It probably depends on the magazine… but yeah, people are still people:-).
A lot of the contributors to Reddit refuse to move to Lemmy/Kbin, and at this point I do not blame them - e.g. my notifications have not been working for over a week now, plus ~80% of the time whenever I try to upvote or boost something, it forgets who I am and I have to login again (actually it’s not a probability thing: it seems if I do something within seconds of visiting a page it always works, while after a threshold is passed then it never works). Plus on kbin.social at least I believe there are no moderation tools at all. Given how hard I’m being trolled on Reddit (b/c I did not kowtow to a hardcore cadre of power aboosers), I could only imagine how horrible the experience would be if even mods could not remove things? (or… something? easily? at all? I do not know the details) This technology just was never ready for deployment at this stage, and especially kbin.social still seems to be in the alpha software stage. Ofc, even so I am still enjoying it more than Reddit, whenever I do get to speak with an intelligent person, like now:-).
Yep, I moved my communities to a forum instead of Lemmy https://lemmy.world/post/3490614 due to Lemmy being in such an early stage of development. The only “mod tool” is the “delete” button as far as I know.