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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 188 points 2 months ago (7 children)

4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool

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[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 142 points 2 months ago (2 children)

updoots encourages circlejerk

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

[–] Senseless@feddit.org 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.

There's a key difference, at least when it comes to hating Reddit.

Most [all?] users here have actual, informed reasons to hate Reddit, from past experiences with the site. They aren't simply joining some bandwagon due to social expectations to bend to the crowd.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 75 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It dies every time someone stops using it.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago

The bots will continue to churn like npcs in an abandoned mmo.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Disenchantment is the little death.

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 70 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I'd argue discord is even worse.

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It's an excellent chat program (except it's pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn't function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 64 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why is lemmy obsessed with talking about its ex

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Goes to Google and types in a search

  • Reddit

  • Reddit

  • Forum post that links back to Reddit

  • YouTube that's just a bunch of screenshots of Reddit over an automated voice

  • Reddit again

Why won't my ex leave me the fuck alone?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Reddit actually solved that problem for me by blocking themselves from appearing in Bing search results.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

She did me dirty bro she deserves it

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's just the way it is.

When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.

At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.

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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 58 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Whenever I stumble on reddit I make sure to post disinformation or some kind of dumb shit to throw a wrench into the LLM training data they sell to google.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I have literally over a hundred permabanned accounts on that site.

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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Make sure to have some LLM generate the comment for you, as LLMs learning synthetic data may fuck them up over time: AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense

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[–] Antiproton@programming.dev 53 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"ruins the Internet"? This coming from 4chan? That's rich

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

4chan is kinda the sump of the Internet. All the crud sinks there.

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[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.

Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don't dredge its depths or even know "the hacker named 4chan" exists, but it has been a massively influential force.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

4chan doesn't nearly have the kind of traffic to ever have ruined the internet.

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Reddit doesn’t even like Reddit.

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[–] duckduckohno@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So many on Reddit bitch and moan about reddit. Just delete your account and use alternatives if you hate it so much.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Forgot

  • APIcalypse
  • sold user content to AI
  • let's only Google index.
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

• A website built by unpaid users and mods that Reddit wants to profit off of.

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I miss the IMDB discussions under each film..

Was great to finish a film and have a question or and ideas and be able to talk about it.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I use it less and less. I only really visit two sub reddit, and one of them has been really declining as it has grown.

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Restricting search results to reddit is still a nice way to filter out corporate junk and just get honest end user opinion on things. As much as I hate the management of the platform now, you have to remember that Reddit didn't always used to be shit. Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Aaron Swartz was a co-founder.

Swartz has been six feet under for longer than some Lemmyites have been alive.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago

It is rapidly becoming an unviable way to find info these days. I have to specifically ignore anything from the past couple years.

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[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The hardcore forums survived.

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[–] nl4real@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I've made an active effort to bookmark any active forums I come across. Even Lemmy doesn't quite fill the niche that actual forums provide, though it is still useful.

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody likes reddit. Nobody. Everyone is just stuck with it and spez's dumbass moneygrubbing bullshit.

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[–] comrade19@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Will the bots be what ends it?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Eventually it'll be all bots jerking themselves off

[–] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AI really is taking our jobs, huh?

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago

Half the users may as well be bots anyway, it's just dorks yelling the same catch phrases at each other in the comments.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

bans controversial subreddits

They are ruining valuable conversation by banning GasTheKikes and Jailbait. My free speech!!! /s

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's gonna die like Digg or Fark ... Which are still around, but shells of their former selves. TBH most normal folks haven't even heard of Reddit, let alone Lemmy or Mastodon.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I disagree with you on how well known Reddit is, it's been mentioned in enough news stories over the years that most people have heard of it, even if they've never been there.

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Since about 2018, I’ve gotten the sense that most internet users know about Reddit, but are embarrassed to admit they know about Reddit.

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