• @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    This is largely the problem with most social media, and generative AI has made this problem worse just like it has made other pretty terrible facets of human interactions worse.

    Anyone who was paying attention on reddit the last couple years (even pre-pandemic) could see that bots were taking over. The main difference (love mods or hate them) was that mods who’s subreddits didn’t rely on bot content to stay active were moderating the bot problem as best they could.

    Now, most of those mods aren’t mods anymore and the vast majority only really want the engagement anyway so of course they’ll let bots basically take over.

    Reddit the corp never cared about keeping bots off the platform and they care even less now. Bot engagement counts. Bot views of ads count. Removing bots actively hurts their bottom line in the short term so of course they aren’t going to do anything with that.

    The actual human users on Reddit don’t care because they’re there to consume. It doesn’t matter to them if the posts they engage with are made by bots or not.

  • @doodledup@lemmy.world
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    1610 days ago

    Reddit is full of Karma farmers.

    I still use Reddit for the funny videos and nieche communities I don’t get on Lemmy. But I have to constantly block accounts because they are blatantly farming. Super annoying.

    I usually block every account that’s reposting and has more than 100k Karma.

  • Deez
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    69 days ago

    This was great, read all of his posts and subscribed. Cheers for sharing!

    • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      27 days ago

      I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.

      • Deez
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        26 days ago

        I read it more as just one of many subtle erosion of freedoms that could lead to a dystopian society.

        • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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          15 days ago

          Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.

  • @Lembot_0002@lemm.ee
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    -9310 days ago

    At least something is happening there. Look around Lemmy. No bots, no humans, no posts, no life.

    • Hegar
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      4210 days ago

      This account is a violent transphobic troll.

      They post transphobic comments and calls for violence then whine about being banned from trans-friendly communities because they “just want some reasonable freedom to say what I want”

    • @doodledup@lemmy.world
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      2810 days ago

      Dude Lemmy feels so much more alive. On Reddit I have like 100 comments and 0 Karma and 0 responses. No interaction at all. Every upvoted comment is just some random generic garbage farming for validation. Lemmy is SO much more live!

      • Em Adespoton
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        310 days ago

        On Reddit I have thousands of comments, over 240,000 karma, and I haven’t logged in in around two years.

        But then, like with Lemmy, I picked my subreddits carefully and left when it seemed like they were being overrun with bots.

    • kreynen
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      59 days ago

      @Lembot_0002@lemm.ee

      @Thomas2024@feddit.org how do you do, fellow humans?