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A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
Submitted 11 months ago by Thomas2024@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain/
Comments
Deez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 11 months 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@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I read it more as just one of many subtle erosion of freedoms that could lead to a dystopian society.
arararagi@ani.social 11 months ago
The sequel is way funnier than this post, the people over at hackernews really take themselves too seriously lmao.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Can’t just leave us hanging with that ending!
yuki2501@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Coming up, in 2030: Anti bot verification by vtuber posting.
Now this will require a vtuber account.
Or how about the new captcha trend: Craft a simple barn in Arbonautica™ (game download available in Steam). You have 5 minutes.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Suspicious account with only one post is commenting a hyperlink
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 11 months ago
Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months 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. Not 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.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
they have been actively culling human users for months now, leaving mostly bots.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Meaning you’re inaane now right? Who would want to read a insane’s ramblings?
Lembot_0002@lemm.ee 11 months ago
At least something is happening there. Look around Lemmy. No bots, no humans, no posts, no life.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey, I might not be any of those things, but I’m here!
arararagi@ani.social 11 months ago
Well said, Lembot.
doodledup@lemmy.world 11 months 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!
adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
shaggyb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why, you didn’t even post this!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hmm, looks like you haven’t been here long. We have our share of each.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re not locked in here… door’s right there whenever
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Go scroll “All”. Find places where things are happening. Engage.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bye then. Best of luck out there, friend.
HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This blog isn’t written by a bot right? Its literally a blog called “post human posting”…