• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world
    152·
    14 days 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
    87·
    14 days 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.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
    70·
    14 days 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
    621·
    14 days 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
      28·
      13 days 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
        131·
        14 days 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
          4·
          14 days 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
            2·
            13 days ago

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

    • Voyajer@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

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

  • subignition@fedia.io
    28·
    14 days ago

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

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    21·
    14 days 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
    18·
    13 days 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
    16·
    13 days 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
    14·
    14 days ago

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

  • femtech@midwest.social
    13·
    14 days 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
    144·
    14 days ago

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

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
    4·
    13 days 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.