Submitted 17 hours ago by IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com to [deleted]
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I can’t blame Reddit mods for putting up filters or Reddit filters on bots. But I can definitely blame Reddit admins for ignoring or encouraging bots for the sake of metrics.
The number of accounts I found with thousands of posts to their own profile trying to game analytics was ridiculous
Reddit is trying to do something good but it end up being even worse than it was. And 1 of tye reasons is greed.
one of the main reasons is greed
It almost always is
Yeah. Reddit makes money, but it’s unpaid workforce who have to combat bots - and their options are limited. It’s crazy that this is normalized.
I left after the “Jesus gets us” advertising spam, followed by a year of constant Indian subs in my feed. I’m not Indian. I don’t speak Hindi.
If you think Lemmy doesn’t have a bot problem I’m sorry to be the one to burst your bubble. Sure, it seems less pervasive over here but they are just as numerous. The only difference is bots you agree with and bots you don’t. There’s only one group of bots you are going to be sceptical about and it’s getting harder to spot them by the day.
But also, Reddit isn’t doing jack shit about it these days. I go there to check the news sometimes when things are slow everywhere else and it’s literally just the same bot accounts posting the same articles and bots of various political affiliations posting in the comments. You basically have to cross check everything you see on the internet. Sure, it’s a good idea to do so regardless of bots, but the “magic” of other people being on the internet is basically dead.
After 18 years, Reddit went public and I was suddenly hit with temp ban after temp ban for stupid shit until they kicked me for saying the US shouldn’t be allowing the starvation of Palestinian children by one of our “allies”.
I guess, according to Reddit, you can f* children and be worthy of praise, but food and medical supplies is a bridge too far? Get fucked Spez. It’s one of the few times I wish the orange goblin had a senior moment and bans Reddit for r/obama.
A president lasts 4-10 years. I will always remember these racist pedo fucks and the bootlicking CEOs.
Got banned from reddit. Still don’t know why. Last thing I did was say apple isn’t actually good for privacy, then provided sources.
I know why I got banned.
The mod of anime titties(the babylonian weeb guy who took over the sub) reported me to the administration for ‘glorifying violence’
This was for me replying to one of his posts calling for Spain to nuke isreal over the flotilla,and my response was that that wasnt realistic (ya know, because spain doesnt have nukes…)
Yeah, last I checked we didn’t have nukes. Though, they can just send me. I’ve two nukes for arms
So many bans for glorifying violence. I’m sorry I believe stonewall was important. Hail Saint Marsha
Does Lemmy have any unique bot filtering techniques?
Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 hours ago
I’m coming up to 3 years on here. Surprised people still give a crap about Reddit.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I give a crap about the lost content. finding tech support just isn’t the same now
KernelTale@programming.dev 7 hours ago
They have more content. I spent barely any time there but I still rather type search query Reddit rather than Lemmy. And I have 2 communities for RSS.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
It simply has more influence and accumulated data so that people still use it. But their policies force more and more people to simply abstain from using Reddit as a chatting platform and only to view useful info. Moreover you don’t even need an account to watch non-NSFW things.
placebo@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
People care about Marvel movies and Taylor Swift. There is nothing wrong with either, it’s just a form of entertainment at this point.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
Reddthat…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I’m still amused to hear about their drama every now and then.
WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I did for a while after getting banned. Later though, there was so little value going there it was mostly just habit. Now I barely spend a minute scrolling headlines just for game news and I’m out. It really is a worthless waste of space at this point. If anyone is like I was, just scrolling with no joy, go play a game. Watch a video. Read a book. As a last resort, go outside. Anything is better than scrolling that shit hole. If you’re so dopamined you can’t experience joy from anything but social media, start by not bringing your phone to the bathroom and do a couple jumping jacks. You’ll be a lot happier with the ability to enjoy things with actual substance.
axexrx@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Im still going back mainly for a couple niche communities. Like Project Diablo 2, whos main community is its sub (it was developed off a reddit run Diablo 2 server slash diablo)
Pretty much that, magic the gathering and porn are all i look at redit for.
Only thing I really miss posting on besides those that I haven’t found a replacement for here is the shityask science/ history / a lawyer etc subs. Those were fun.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
But… how will I poop?