• Rayuza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I dont use reddit anymore but still have it installed. The amount of chat invites i get per day from bots is insane.

    • Koboldschadenfroh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I don’t have an account anymore, so no bot requests for me. But whenever I come by the front page for some reason or another, there are suddenly almost ONLY posts from my country and in my mother language. Which sucks, cause if I only wanted to hear stuff from my country, I’d go to a local website. Thankfully I don’t really browse there anymore. I mostly just go straight to specific subs which have no good equivalent anywhere else, but that’s it. And I do that very seldomly. So Spez doesn’t have much to gain from me.

    • Wilibus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Not having any chat features was the absolute best part of Reddit is Fun.

      RIP old friend

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto… yet.

    Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.

  • Stefen Auris@pawb.socialEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    More like mildly amusing. This is what happens when you basically get rid of or dissuade your volunteer mods from doing free work for you.

  • JustSomePerson@kbin.social
    05·
    1 year ago

    What a fucking disingenuous post. I can go to reddit now, and most rising posts are about things that interest me, because i subscribe to subreddits that match my interests. If you subscribe to Crypto scam subreddits, you can’t go here and whine about it. Curate your timeline, just like you need to do here.

    I’m so sick off all the FUD about reddit. Yes, the reddit management are basically pure evil, I agree. But reddit itself was barely affected by the exodus.

    • page@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      These are the rising posts on /r/all, not my feed. I’ve used /r/all/rising for years because it gives more frequent and diverse posts than the same couple dozen lowest common denominator posts that stay on the front page all day.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      But reddit itself was barely affected by the exodus.

      True, but only for now. There’s a single leading alternative as a result of the exodus, and theoretically you can only enshittify something so much before people start to leave en mass.

  • cerevant@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

    The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

  • Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I used to browse by new and once you filtered out all the crypto scams it was usually pretty fun and diverse. I do the same on Lemmy now, but there’s a lot less stuff to filter. Haven’t used Reddit since the API announcement and never looked back, though.

  • TheLurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    In a few years Reddit will “rebrand” as a link aggregation site.

    It’s the last stage of a social media platform’s demise.

  • Thales@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    And their new Elmo-like system to pay mods will make this type of spam worse as mods will be incentivized to allow this crap.

    • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Essentially it’s a giveaway/handout/distribution to people who fulfill some criteria. There was one coin that gave away significant amounts (>1k USD) to early users and since then it has become kinda popular. Because who would turn down something free?!

      Except its not free. For starters, you’d usually have to pay significant network fees to claim the airdrop, and second the money has to come from somewhere. It’s the same with government printing money and distributing some to the people, in the end we all pay for it with inflation. So yeah, pretty scammy overall.