• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
    161·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • 4am@lemm.ee
    94·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    75·
    4 months ago

    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?

  • Buttflapper@lemmy.world
    652·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      31·
      4 months ago

      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

      • Laser@feddit.org
        141·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          5·
          4 months ago

          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

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 months ago

            It seems like Windows and Linux users both agree that Windows sucks, they just disagree on it being avoidable.

    • Voyajer@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      I mean I’ve seen that here as well via kbin back when I used it, just at a smaller scale.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
      17·
      4 months ago

      You have no idea how many nihilistic eco-fascists would unironically agree that “Kill all humans” is indeed a wholesome sentiment.

      • DragonTypeWyvern
        31·
        4 months ago

        How can they be fascists if they want everyone to die an equal amount?

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
          11·
          4 months ago

          Because they don’t, letting people die for mother nature and whatever will inherently impact not white not rich people far more.

          Just letting shit collapse is a position that inherently comes from a place of knowing you’ll probably be fine when the dust settles, no matter how many bodies were needed to cushion the landing.

          It’s basically an even more heinous version of the sarcastic “I hate everyone equally” response to being called out for being a racist dick.

          • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.world
            22·
            4 months ago

            Assuming every human actually does die that leaves just other animals and the few machines we left. I really don’t see how that would help rich people.

            • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
              81·
              4 months ago

              Because you can’t kill every human. Human civilization has advanced to the point that it is capable of surviving basically anything short of everything all at once.

              So with that in mind, literally any ideology of “just let it all collapse”, no matter how much the shithead insists they hate everyone equally, is a fascist wish for death upon the disfortuned and socially ostracized.

              Being bad at math and insisting on a completely impossible “what I’mactually aiming for!” does not insulate you from being a racist shitbag for wanting a scenario which will inevitably cause the disproportionate slaughter of the underprivileged.

              Not even the Thanos Snap escapes this, the tack on impacts will naturally hit the disfortuned and socially ostracized hardest, making it a lot less “random” as the big purple antman pocket insists it would be.

              • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.world
                32·
                4 months ago

                Practically it is impossible, I agree but everyone being dead leaves nobody to suffer. Logically this seems like a simple yet functional solution.

                It’s simplicity on a conceptual level is what I believe attracts so many to the idea.

                I didn’t expect anyone to actually consider mass genocide being a serious practical solution.

                I have no idea what this Thanos thing has to do with it either.

                Also I have no idea what maths has to do with this. I never mentioned an equation. Just that by everyone I indeed meant everyone. This is a theoretical solution. If humanity insisted on being practical all the time we would probably not have ended up with things like topology.

  • subignition@fedia.io
    30·
    4 months ago

    autocorrect appears to have turned “wholesomememes” into “wholesomeness” in your title

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    Other than bots, who else is even still on Reddit…? :-P It’s bots interacting with bots, all the way down.

  • 0oWow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    222·
    4 months ago

    Most of reddit seems to be bots posts now, or reddit employees. They shot themselves in the chest when they did their greedy deeds.

  • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
    17·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • baatliwala@lemmy.world
    16·
    4 months ago

    How do you even ban reposts though without mods constantly scanning the queue. Make the subreddit OC only?

  • femtech
    14·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    154·
    4 months ago

    A meme is by definition a repost though. The reuse is literally what makes it a meme.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    3·
    4 months ago

    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.