More like reddit has so much content it dwarf’s lemmy, but it was bound to happen, you can always mute the bots
Reddit being bad? Never.
Dead internet theory!!!
Good. Lemmy needs more content. I hate that I miss out on so much by being here, but I can’t go back to reddit. Therefore I welcome the bots with open arms.
I think half the problem with lemmy is there’s too many people who reddit rejected and not enough that rejected reddit.
But reddit rejects people for utter nonsense reasons. If you just use it enough you’ll eventually stumble into something that irks the wrong admin or gets caught by their word filter. So the “Reddit rejected” set is really just a random sampling of power users. Of that set, the hateful degenerates are driven towards X imo.
Trading strategies on how to keep ice from kidnapping people is a bannable offense apparently.
Nothing would surprise me at this point, Reddit builds a platform that lets you get attached to your account & community and then takes it away without even having a human look at the ban. Total BS
No, by “I can’t”, I mean that I don’t want to go back to reddit. Dodging a ban is easy, but fuck reddit. I can’t stand all the low IQ MAGA-types and general American stupidity there. At least Lemmy’s conservatives have enough brain cells firing that you can have a proper debate with them…
So you want all their content reposted here?
No, just the good reddit content, lol
Like what is shown in OP’s screenshot. Niche content too, 'cause that pretty much doesn’t exist here. We desperately need it.
Ew.
I blocked them
Unfortunately you can’t block the AI enforcing the reddit terms of use, which shadowban users on a half-assed hunch.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975398/reddit-ai-rules-hub-moderator-old-reddit-developer-platform
Slop in, slop out.
This AI thing might turn people off the Internet???
I use a lot less internet than I used to because of it.
I like to frequent HackerNews for some of the discussions there, but… my god, the front page just turns me off. I do a quick glance, see if anything isn’t some not-so-subtly covert advert for an LLM product, and just navigate away.
There are some alternative front pages (https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai) to make it bearable, but even then
This is why we can block things
You do realize that 95% of all Reddit / Lemmy posts are all created by bots right?
Show your work
I’ve run this experiment before. ~90% of accounts sampled on the top 20 /r/all with not prior post history before 2-3 months got converted to cryptocurrency spam bots. Some of the remainder were porn spam. A few deleted accounts. A few seemingly real people. This was during the heights of cryptocurrency mania. Believe me or don’t. I can’t be assed with source dropping internet-pseud wankery.
Bot deception tactics have certainly changed since the prevalence of LLMs. I haven’t been paying attention to what the patterns have shifted to. Before these times, it was easily spotted because they were relatively simple.
I believe earlier this year someone on /r/theoryofreddit spotted closed networks of subreddits where bots engage with each other. Those are used to farm accounts on a massive scale.
Personally I don’t mind it too much, as long as
- there’s no vote manipulation to artificially boost the post
- there are genuine interactions in the comments
- the account posting this is properly labelled as a bot account (if it’s an actual bot)
Looking at this specific accounts history it seems as if its a regular poster (with a bit controverse ethics about content creation if you will) and as if OP has just labeled the account to be a bot.
Well then, better hope we don’t have “Lemmy repost bots taking over entire communities” happening next.
Half those posts I’ve seen here too. It doesn’t really matter tbh. At least the people are nicer here.
I’m not. I really am dreadful
I remember seeing someone being a dick to a post you made and I was upset about it. So I must say I haven’t concluded that you are dreadful yet.
Thanks for the solidarity! I get that sometimes but tbh I get a zillion notifications and rarely read them
yeah but it’s a nice kind of dreadful. like a smallpox pustule with a smiley face drawn on it.
A day ago he reposted a meme about a doctor raping a woman because her credit card was declined and she couldnt pay for care.
Thats VILE.
In addition to the slimy pretending that his posts are organic traffic by not just marking his account as a bot, he is also importing the culture of casual sexism from reddit to the threadiverse.
He’s like 14 or at least has the brain of one. I hate the sexist shit he always posts. Let’s keep 4chan shit like that on 4chan
📡📡📡 Lazy-ass poster with dumb emoji titles
Is that the incel on shit posting?
Yeah, all the gender wars and incel garbage is pretty much just him
https://sh.itjust.works/post/67242461 The post I was referring to
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Reddit is getting increasingly wonky. Picked up a ban for calling a racist a racist. I’m being hateful. Um, okay?
Don’t call out that, cus that’s just as hateful as hate! /s
Or something like that I presume.
It’s not* even tolerance paradox shit (which only exists if you misunderstand what tolerance is), it’s full blown normalization of biggoted behavior.
It is frustrating for sure. I do appreciate the higher signal to noise ratio in the fediverse and also that it is decentralized, I think it makes for a better experience overall.
Cheers to you. :)
All of those posts are heavily upvoted and have multiple comments though? Accreditation, etc. are all valid critiques, but I genuinely don’t understand why so many people care about the provenance of posts.
I post pictures of bread I bake and I’m on the upper lower middle side of mid for my baking skills.
If someone picks the best bread on a subreddit with a million members my posts will be buried instantly so what’s the point in adding real content?
I think that’s a bad analogy for a few reasons. First, all the examples you’ve posted are specifically meme template-friendly subs, which makes sense since they’re inherently easy to repost. I don’t think think a baking community would have that problem. But even if it did, you could just start a new baking community that bans reposts? Given how unpopular repost bots are, I assume your anti-repost baking community would be more popular than the hypothetical pro-repost baking community that your posts are buried in. Assuming that repost bots are drowning out more organic content, which prima facie doesn’t seem to be the case in either community you screenshotted as examples. Both seem like pretty solid examples of their being no other content.
Structurally speaking, up and down votes should ideally, roughly sort posts by quality. A post being buried (unpopular) in a community isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
If fear of not getting enough internet points is what’s keeping someone from posting, that’s more on them.
If I wanted to battle bots for engagement I’d be on reddit.
You’re not battling anyone for engagement because you’re not posting anything yourself. All you can offer is hyptheticals with no supporting evidence.
Why don’t you go hang out in /askscience or /askhistorians with Portnou if you want all organic content. He and his multiple personalities are posting there dozens of times per day and those communities are just popping off with content and activity.
kinda wierd for someone with a yr history that only posted a few things early on and then a few more 3 months ago who then also is on so unoften he does not recognize your handle to make this statement about your user. had to tag that.
Upset that your daily screenshots of the mod log aren’t getting much engagement? Perhaps you’re jealous that your reposts from /r/news aren’t getting as much traction as time2lose’s reposts? What engagement are you generating other than your current crusade against this specific user?
Edit: its also interesting that not only have you started a crusade against users for posting content that you don’t agree with (even though you don’t hold yourself to the same standard as evidenced by all your own reposts), but you’ve also started a community for you to start a crusade against mods for making decisions that you don’t agree with. There seems to be a pattern here where everything revolves around you and everyone needing to meet your demands.
Um… what?
That’s a very fancy way of saying, “I bake the middest of mid bread.” And I approve
The canary sings despite the cage. You don’t have to sing to anyone except for when you want to
As long as the bot is allowed to be there it’s not a problem it’s not ideal obviously. It should be considered if it is actually a good idea will the community ever develop if it is just already 100% reddit reposts?
I think it’s kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully the community existing and having regular posts increases the odds of user interaction like comments and votes, which would naturally lead to more and more posts from actual members. Hopefully whoever is running that bot can wind it down while actual engagement ramps up.
Hello again, I see we’re both annoyed by the same person still
Yeah this shit is getting out of hand.
Already blocked the ass
What’s the issue if you can just block them and not have to deal with them?
The principle. Repost bots ruined Reddit and we don’t want them here
