It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.
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kungen@feddit.nu 1 week agoHow many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.
Civil_Liberty@lemm.ee 1 week ago
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 week ago
I used to help out in r/Botdefense
The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to use (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greddy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww
sloppychops@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good posts drowning in spam.
Halliphax@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Won’t the same happen to Lemmy when it gains enough traction?
kungen@feddit.nu 1 week ago
I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.
balder1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Many apps do display the user karma though.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 week ago
But that just means that viewing it is opt-in rather than default. Since most people probably won’t bother to install those apps, the farmed karma won’t be worth squat.
bugg@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.
Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.
I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.
Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).
nighthawkx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.