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  • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
    27·
    2 years ago

    At that point Digg had a serious power user and astroturfing problem

    I do not disagree with anything you said, and I agree that Reddit (as they want it to be) will come out of this just fine. That being said, Reddit does have a lot of the same major problems Digg had at the time, especially astroturfing and spam content, and I don’t expect that to go away. Over the past couple years most of the posts on the front pages are often bot generated and/or posted karma farms, and it’s becoming more and more common to see bot brigades in the comments of everything, manipulating the dialogue.

    I’ve commented loads on here that I haven’t felt a sense of community on Reddit in years, and it’s getting more and more cookie cutter and instagrammy by the day. It’s become something I just mindlessly scroll through instead of ever really engaging with, and tons of the posts are really just socially engineered ads. I’m really liking Lemmy, it feels like a fresh start. I miss a lot of the content, but I love that it’s more engaging. IDC if it doesn’t become the most popular thing, if I can come here and actually engage with people/content rather than just amble through it apathetically, I’m 100% down.

    • 2deck@beehaw.org
      14·
      2 years ago

      Agreed, feels like a fresh start without some of the noise. Reddit will be bleeding users for a long while. A large number of power users have jumped ship and many of them technically apt. Lemmy will improve very quickly now. New UIs and features.

      I’m excited.

      • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
        16·
        2 years ago

        Same man. I’m also trying to get out of my shell and contribute as well. I have thousands of reddit comments, but only a few posts in 12 years, mainly because I didn’t see the point. But here, where there are 1-2 orders of magnitude fewer users, what I have to say or post may genuinely interest somebody AND be seen by said person. If people don’t like it, that’s fine, at least it was there for them to see and not like!

          • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
            5·
            2 years ago

            Thanks! My reddit name got shit on frequently, so I’m not sad to see people appreciating the new one!!

        • Adam Dalliance@boing.world
          6·
          2 years ago

          @LemmyAtem @2deck

          This is it. The algorithm amplifies the popular and in doing so mutes the rest.

          Whether the algorithm is upvotes from the community times hotness or likes from the whole world times your social graph.

          It is still inevitably muting more people than it is promoting.

          People are worried today that there might not be a single place to find the one true forum, but in wanting that they are silencing the decentralized voices who can only get attention in a smaller group.

          You can’t have a sensible discussion when everyone is in the same room.

      • Hexarei@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I was super surprised to see just how many improvements hit the Jerboa Android app in just a couple days since I installed it. So many PRs lol