After all the BS from /u/spez?

  • palarith@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve being feeling that lately reddit had become full of repost bots and fake ads. Was there just because there was nowhere else to go

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      1 year ago

      I feel a similar way. The quality just kept going down and down to the point where I couldn’t tell what was real or not. Most just weren’t worth reading either way. Lemmy seems the same way now too. People are focusing on making “content” instead of trying to make higher quality posts.

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        1 year ago

        You both make such great points here. I’ve definitely had those times I felt like a post that’s upvoted to the front page is really an advertisement. And within thread comments it has become almost impossible to know who is genuine, a troll, or a literal bot - along with being pretty toxic for a long time.

        At the same time, there are some extraordinary communities and knowledge repositories that might be difficult to replicate in the fediverse. For example, I can’t yet envisage how a highly factual community like Ask Science, or such, might work. But I love the retro feeling I’m getting here - of discovering a new, blossoming internet community - and the fact that there are seemingly real people behind the posts. lol.

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          1 year ago

          When i was just lurking here at the start of rexit, i kept getting the feeling of finally being around real humans again. It was amazing! unfortunately it seemed to go back to reddit style copy paste link spam to generate content. One step forwards and one step backwards.