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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CoffeeBlood91@lemmy.ca to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Reddit populated itself with fake accounts early on in its life, so they could be very well doing the same thing again here.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2

ps. This is my first comment, does hyperlinking work here?

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[-] fritobugger@vlemmy.net 17 points 2 years ago

The Hail Corporate crowd will stay.

[-] SuperSoftAbby@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I'm not entirely convinced that it isn't all mostly bot activity.

[-] jrest18n@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Of course that site is like that now.

Everyone who cares left...

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 14 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, it will become an even more toxic cesspool soon....

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[-] sibachian@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

It would appear it's mostly bots, probably paid for by reddit (or interested groups) to muddle the waters.

I have seen countless posts trying to discredit the fediverse, how it won't work because it isn't financially backed (completely ignoring that email is still a thing), or how Mastodon apparently failed. On top of that, there are tons of comments in the threads for subs that went dark where the commenter argues "all this does is hurt the sub". but when you look into the commenter, they have no previous history of being active in these subs at all.

But, i've seen this kind of activity all over reddit for the past 2 years. Especially when something unpopular is happening. There is a lot of the same type of crap you see during the presidential elections of the US. A lot of fake comments, posts, and statistics, and other things to try steer the public opinion in an engineered direction.

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[-] smokinjoe@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

The lack of societal solidarity for the betterment of everyone is sad.

But that's ok, reddit was never going to die after this protest.

I think what took place was a successful test of what alternatives exist out in the wild.

Now it's up to those of us who migrated to post through the highs and lows of early adoption in order to encourage others to come and stick around when the next shitty move by Spez takes place.

For example, I migrated to Mastodon in late 2018 during an initial surge. And over the years tried to keep posting content so that when the next migration took place when Elon took the reigns, people were able to possibly feel more at home.

This shit takes time. A lot of time. But the internet is a big place and there's plenty of opportunity for things to be better. We just can expect things to rush themselves

[-] Tower14@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

Its such a weird complaint that these people are having right now. They're demanding that unpaid people come back and labor for them for free and/or give away the tools they've created for free.

It's like they have no idea how reddit works. People whining that the NFL sub is closed and demanding it to be reopened for instance. They can go make their own sub and moderate it themselves, but they dont. The entitlement to just demand that people do free labor for you is insane.

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[-] Huschke@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago

It's pretty simple. Most people won't do anything unless it directly impacts them.

This has been true time and time again throughout history as well. People only revolt or start an uprising when things get so bad that it directly influences them. Even then most won't do anything unless they aren't able to ignore it anymore.

[-] cufta22@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

I can assure you it's not AI, most people there aren't even aware of what's going on or just don't care about the new reddit changes

[-] marmellat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

They don't care. People are happy in their bubbles.

[-] victron@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They gonna stay there until they feel the real consequences. Most people just don't get what's the real problem. I'm happy in the fediverse, feels like I make better use of my time, instead of scrolling like an idiot.

[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

I'm suspecting phantom upvotes. Neutral or pro-Reddit comments get highly upvoted suspiciously quickly after a sub comes back on line, drowning out anything else.

[-] l_one@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would be highly unsurprised. Spez has shown in the past he isn't above screwing with things in the background.

He's said he plans to change things so subreddit users can vote mods out - specifically aimed at the mods who are keeping subreddits dark. Certainly there's no room for anything to go wrong with the voting system that he has direct control over which also happens to have no external oversight or means of 3rd party verification.

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