crosspost to c/FuckReddit
More like reddit has so much content it dwarf’s lemmy, but it was bound to happen, you can always mute the bots
Only if they mark themselves as bots.
Well the bot in the screenshot is marked as a bot
That’s a manually applied user tag inside the client of the person who took the screenshot. System bot accounts show up differently.
Dead internet theory!!!
Ugh, only bots still post about dead internet theory.
beep bop!
No longer a theory lol
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’m ok with that if it’s on a separate instance that’s easy to block/hide (which has been happening already). Where I take issue is bots taking over communities where humans post.
Mods need to be better on this. It isn’t hard.
Ew.
I think half the problem with lemmy is there’s too many people who reddit rejected and not enough that rejected reddit.
I rejected reddit when they did RIF and Apollo dirty. I would still like the reddit content.
I miss RIF 😕
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 they “Reddit rejected” 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?
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
It was only a matter of time before they found a way to get rid of the mods. They were always too much of a variable that the company could not control.
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.
I’m talking about lemmy.
Well then, better hope we don’t have “Lemmy repost bots taking over entire communities” happening next.
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.
I mean I’m kind of ok with that, I just don’t want to use reddit. Or am allowed to. Then again reddit is a corporate cesspit so that will start spilling over…
Holy shit, dude, I can’t even tell what this post is about because your UI is blown up way too big and it’s distracting me!
Please, allow me to show you how to fix this: Go into Developer Options, and then do a search for “minimum width” (sometimes it’s called “smallest width”, depending on the device), and increase that number until you can actually fit a decent amount of content on the screen. A setting around 450-550dp works best on most screens.
Edit: When configured properly, your UI will look like this. Please note all the extra room for activities!
Hell yeah! Whats the point in having ~2k resolution if everything in the UI gets blown up bigger than it was in the days of 640x480? Do your letters look that much smoother? Do you like only being able to fit a single sentence on screen at a time? If I’m paying for that screen real estate, I want to use it all!
That’s what I’m saying!!! Thank you; I thought I was going crazy. I can’t believe my fellow Lemmings are this against changing your UI scaling to actually match the screen you have…
Lol are you some kind of blind boomer? Why is everything so big on your screen? 🤢🤮
Condescending amateur.
What a stupid waste of time
Don’t be a dick; this is the very first setting I change when I get a new phone, and I can’t be alone in this. So no, it’s not a waste of time, you just can’t admit that you weren’t aware of the setting.
You’re the one being a dick to him about having normal settings on his phone. Pretending it’s unreadable so you can be condescending about it.
Dude I’m not the one who started with the insults. If you roast me, I roast you back. If you’re nice, I’m nice back. Golden rule.
I said nothing to inspire that “stupid waste of time” comment. I don’t even understand why people are so heated about this when I was just trying to help… Are y’all upset because I’m easily excitable? My bad! That’s just how I am!
Quit your fucking crying. You were an asshole and got called out for it. Take your lumps and move on with your life and maybe learn a lesson or two.
Or maybe some of us have normal sized phones
My phone has a 5.7" screen which is about as normal as it gets. It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting. It’s the very first thing I change when I get a new phone.
It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting.
Are you this condescending to everyone you talk to?
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.
Just block it if it bothers you. Lemmy makes this ez pz.
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.
I’m not infuriated by more content that we desperately need.
