It's difficult for me to give any less of a shit about Reddit. I'm perfectly happy with Lemmy.
Luckily for me reddit made it easy by killing 3rd party apps and I only ever browsed it with RiF.
Same, when the app I used stopped working, I tried the reddit default one and bailed out after like 5 minutes of using that ad riddled shitpile
Lol oh I understand that reference and agree I will keep looking forward. But never did get around to deleting my account.
I still have it installed and even though it doesn't and will never work, I still like to open it, and have it once again try to retrieve posts only to return "forbidden". I do it for old time's sake, like a digital pouring one out for RIF and the Reddit I used to know.
They have yet to kill old, but I assume it's coming, and there's no way I'm tolerating the new interfaces.
I still have to google search reddit when I'm looking for specific info like opinions on games. Unfortunately lemmy's not reasonable to search, and Reddit has a much bigger userbase with a longer time to accumulate info about most topics.
The best way I've found to search lemmy and kbin is using trystract.com with the discussions optic.
Went to reddit to see what the top posts were. Not much has changed.
"I kicked a puppy. AITA?"
"Gang of teens beat up an elderly homeless guy. Not ragebait."
"What are your favorite dating tips? Help me write my fluff article."
you forgot "Men have it so much harder than women and here's an entire fucking essay on why you bitches!!"
The comments are just so much worse than the top posts. It is akin to Twitter after Musk pushed the main active user base away in exchange for a Faustian deal with right wingnuts. That or Reddit was truly duplicitous in their messaging and are perfectly fine taking money from propaganda organizations running in other countries which can pay the API fees to push narratives still. Not that they'd want that before an IPO or anything....
That's not accurate. The article is about Australia. Netflix Australia had a net loss of 200K subscribers specifically due to the anti-consumer moves they've made which affects a lot more than just sharing a password with a family member. That's a 3% decline in a major country. Meanwhile, Netflix rivals had subscriptions increase overall and several saw huge surges. Netflix remains #1 by total subscribers in Australia, but that shouldn't shock anyone given the inherit momentum they possess.
The article was never about Netflix globally. It was always about Australia. Companies operate business units in regions, and each region must perform.
The API kerfuffle finally gave us the critical mass ofbusers to make it viable, and it's only uphill from here
At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto... yet.
Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.
Thanks for the warning Ms Robbie. I'm a big fan of your movies, do you have any further financial advise?
No drugs. Also, never, ever buy a yacht, they cost way too much money and are bad for the environment.
Aww, shucks. 💖
Also, that's Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!
This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.
The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.[1][2][3][4] These intelligent bots are assumed to have been made, in part, to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to ultimately manipulate consumers.[5] Further, proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception.[1] The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017.
Bots are created to generate media and web content as filler, not as a conspiracy. It's not government lead, it's done by social media users, media/news organizations, and others.
However, there are how many billions online? Internets not dead.
“Nah I’d rather just sit back and silently upvote while someone else provides the content / comments”
So many threads have tons of upvotes but less than 10 comments
Man you have no idea how annoying it is to dredge up enough effort to post comments and shit. Take it from me, a former 100% lurker on reddit
I find that having a really shit take on something tends to get even passive people talking, but I worry about the long-term effects of generating conversation that way.
Unrelated, but has anyone noticed that almost all posts and comments have at least one downvote?
When you have a platform with multiple millions of people, everyone is gonna be hated by someone
it was always mind boggling to be on a sub reddit, like say for King of the Hill and someone posts an innocent quote from the show or something and they just randomly have two downvotes for some reason.
On reddit? Vote % is fuzzed a little to prevent spambots or something.
On lemmy I haven't noticed that
Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren
There's a scam on the Reddit front page today
It's the same old scam as yesterday
Have you been to digg lately? It still exists.
Each link on the frontpage gets maybe 2-3 comments. 😂
If you kill 10 persons in a row you can get a stealth bomber, be a chopper gunner or get an emergency airdrop. Hope that helps.
As the modern heroine & profound intellectual Philomena Cunk noted, "1 in 20 people has been a victim of crime, which means that 19 out of 20 people are criminals."
Essentially it's a giveaway/handout/distribution to people who fulfill some criteria. There was one coin that gave away significant amounts (>1k USD) to early users and since then it has become kinda popular. Because who would turn down something free?!
Except its not free. For starters, you'd usually have to pay significant network fees to claim the airdrop, and second the money has to come from somewhere. It's the same with government printing money and distributing some to the people, in the end we all pay for it with inflation. So yeah, pretty scammy overall.
To play devil's advocate, while I have little doubts that these specific ones are scammy, there are many cases where they have been genuinely good value. In general, this is when a product requires an established user base in order to be effective , so they'll have an airdrop shortly after opening and then another a few months into the product's life. The aim being that if X number of people try it a bit, hopefully a proportion will continue using it and make the whole product viable.
Don’t know for sure, but stuff like this is usually fake promises of free crypto and money. Like a “faucet” site to phish your info and probably scam your wallet or account
We are even more vulnerable here... hopefully the scammers come slowly enough that we can develop effective defenses without scaring away our users.
When 5 of the shown groups are obviously crypto related why is it a surprise? Bots push all kinds of stuff to the top in other popular subs, crypto subs are just getting more targeted bots instead of some tiktok clip.
It's so messed up, those posts were covering literally everyone's feeds. So many bots it was quite insane tbh...