Totally agree. These platforms have no discussion culture. They are only designed to gain followers. This means only polarizing content of a very small group of users gets attention and all the rest is not even visible to other people. Reddit or Lemmy is very different in that sense. Even a new user can start a rich discussion because of subs/communities and without the need of followers. Thus the quality of the whole network is overall better.
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dicksteele@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I’m not a fan of mastodon because it really does feel a lot like other social media sites, I don’t really like any form of advertising, whether it’s intentional or unintentional. People post too much bullshit trying to gain followers. I never cared much for twitter/facebook/instagram anyway.
Lemmy however is a better replacement for Reddit, so far. I remember when Reddit was the replacement and now look at it, a big steaming pile of ads and bots, power tripping admin and moderators, killed 3rd party apps that made the site useable. Hopefully lemmy can remain the same as it is now.
el_puercoespin@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 days ago
reddit was different, now its extremely hard to even comment, let alone mod or start a sub .
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 5 days ago
My fear is that, if lemmy gets too successful, that regarding bots the same fate may occur.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Typically if you’re gonna deploy a bunch of bots on lemmy, it’s easiest to do via your own instance, which is fairly easy to filter out.
Luckily the federated aspect will help with this a little bit.
fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Right, but you can also create accounts on different instances, so not really protected. Actually I think it’s very difficult to really filter bots when they’re done right, especially in times where LLMs start to be increasingly more popular.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 days ago
its nice it wont spread like cancer, like with reddit, wheres its mostly political botting by RU.