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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 month ago (7 children)

4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 month ago (2 children)

updoots encourages circlejerk

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

There's a key difference, at least when it comes to hating Reddit.

Most [all?] users here have actual, informed reasons to hate Reddit, from past experiences with the site. They aren't simply joining some bandwagon due to social expectations to bend to the crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

It's already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.

There are no users left. It's bots all the way through, like maggots in a rotting corpse.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

holy fuck, i didnt know it was quite that bad

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except... it looks like people did start posting. So the users were crowded out by bots before and they're posting now. That just shows that Reddit isn't dead, but it does have too many bots.

I mean, I'm sure many people here wish there was more non-bot content. It's annoying to see something on Reddit and come back here and see the same thing.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It dies every time someone stops using it.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago

The bots will continue to churn like npcs in an abandoned mmo.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Disenchantment is the little death.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'd argue discord is even worse.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It's an excellent chat program (except it's pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn't function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Why is lemmy obsessed with talking about its ex

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Goes to Google and types in a search

  • Reddit

  • Reddit

  • Forum post that links back to Reddit

  • YouTube that's just a bunch of screenshots of Reddit over an automated voice

  • Reddit again

Why won't my ex leave me the fuck alone?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Reddit actually solved that problem for me by blocking themselves from appearing in Bing search results.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

She did me dirty bro she deserves it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's just the way it is.

When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.

At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whenever I stumble on reddit I make sure to post disinformation or some kind of dumb shit to throw a wrench into the LLM training data they sell to google.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I have literally over a hundred permabanned accounts on that site.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Make sure to have some LLM generate the comment for you, as LLMs learning synthetic data may fuck them up over time: AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"ruins the Internet"? This coming from 4chan? That's rich

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

4chan is kinda the sump of the Internet. All the crud sinks there.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.

Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don't dredge its depths or even know "the hacker named 4chan" exists, but it has been a massively influential force.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

4chan doesn't nearly have the kind of traffic to ever have ruined the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reddit doesn’t even like Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forgot

  • APIcalypse
  • sold user content to AI
  • let's only Google index.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

• A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I miss the IMDB discussions under each film..

Was great to finish a film and have a question or and ideas and be able to talk about it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I use it less and less. I only really visit two sub reddit, and one of them has been really declining as it has grown.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn't always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I've made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn't quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The hardcore forums survived.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody likes reddit. Nobody. Everyone is just stuck with it and spez's dumbass moneygrubbing bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's gonna die like Digg or Fark ... Which are still around, but shells of their former selves. TBH most normal folks haven't even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I disagree with you on how well known Reddit is, it's been mentioned in enough news stories over the years that most people have heard of it, even if they've never been there.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Since about 2018, I’ve gotten the sense that most internet users know about Reddit, but are embarrassed to admit they know about Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

bans controversial subreddits

They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Will the bots be what ends it?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Eventually it'll be all bots jerking themselves off

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI really is taking our jobs, huh?

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