Even before the insane number of bots that are on reddit today, I believe that subreddit was one of the main ways for astroturf accounts to gain karma quickly. They knew that everyone was just there to look at happy things and would upvote heavily.
People finally find a place to be happy and bots come and ruin it. I hate robots.
Back in the 90s there was an article about some “spam king” guy who was blasting out millions of emails and basically crushing mail servers and making inboxes useless. They interviewed him and he was all indignant about it like “I have the right to do this” and all that.
That is when I knew the internet and humanity was doomed from the start.
There’s a Wikipedia page about him:
So…if dead internet theory has gone into effect, does that mean adverts are basically just a medium of wealth circulation between tech bros in a circle jerk?
I’d estimate as much as 50% of the entire community left on Reddit are bots. I’ve seen people being downvoted systemically, just for saying completely ordinary things that aren’t even controversial.
Idk if they did something to the feed but the quality is atrocious. Half of the posts are upvote farming, thirst posts or weird askreddit posts.
Occassionally there are bice posts but Reddit fell of heavily. I think I’d rather scroll memes on my Insta feed (if I do it once every few weeks) than Reddit.
Lemmys memes are alright if a bit too much pro-linus/bash-windows
Lemmys memes are alright if a bit too much pro-linus/bash-windows
Your chance to go against the flow!
Regardless of quality of each system, it’s understandable that Lemmy’s userbase would lean more towards Linux as the reasons for using both instead of the dominant alternative are similar. Also Linux works really well for most stuff you’d do on Windows compared to 20 years ago.
But yeah it becomes somewhat annoying when people base a part of their identity on it. Then again, this is always true, regardless of topic at hand.
Your chance to go against the flow!
Tbf I was and am always more of a lurker and maybe a commenter.
My philosophy is that if I have no OC thing to post, I won’t. And I have never (to my knowledge) reposted a meme and only cross-posted one.
Regarding the Linux thing: I like Linux but I have my personal issues with it (for example: >50 different ways to set a static IP). But I can not say anything against it being not stable. And I like it as a server OS. But I don’t see it yet outside of a steam deck (I think linux users call that an immutable OS?) and servers. Desktop is still a bit clunky.
BUT Windows aint much better in a load of other bs. So it’s a solid 50:50
I mean I’ve seen that here as well via kbin back when I used it, just at a smaller scale.
Wholesome meme: Kill All Humans.
–Bender
You have no idea how many nihilistic eco-fascists would unironically agree that “Kill all humans” is indeed a wholesome sentiment.
Because they don’t, letting people die for mother nature and whatever will inherently impact not white not rich people far more.
Just letting shit collapse is a position that inherently comes from a place of knowing you’ll probably be fine when the dust settles, no matter how many bodies were needed to cushion the landing.
It’s basically an even more heinous version of the sarcastic “I hate everyone equally” response to being called out for being a racist dick.
