this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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[–] [email protected] 294 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (17 children)

Love. This. Comment.

This have to be bot.

Edit: thanks for the gold, stranger!

Edit2: ohh god i hate you guys.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mrkawfee 114 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 98 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (4 children)

This just became my new favorite saying.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

I'm using this in my daily life now

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It's probably a whole set of bots and the responses to "this needs to be a coffee mug" are some other account saying "I found one!" and that's the whole point of the comment chain. Someone has a crappy mug to sell and constructs scenarios that seem natural ish to introduce it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There used to be a big issue on Tumblr years ago with bots trolling for comments like that and then stealing whatever picture that comment was on to sell crappy t-shirts of it or whatever. People started fighting back by posting those comments specifically on Disney stuff.

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[–] zakobjoa 55 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] SpiceDealer 176 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

That was cringe but I think a better reason NOT to return to reddit is the fact that they just sold out their users to an AI company that hasn't even been named.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Could you imagine this is what we are training AI with !

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK, there’s nothing stopping any company from scraping Lemmy either. The whole point pf reddit limiting API usage was so they could make money like this.

Outside of morals, there is nothing to stop anybody from training on data from Lemmy just like there’s nothing stopping me from using Wikipedia. Most conferences nowadays require a paragraph on ethics in the submission, but I and many of my colleagues would have no qualms saying we scraped our data from open source internet forums and blogs.

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[–] random9 155 points 8 months ago (16 children)

I think the fewer number of people, compared to reddit, on Lemmy combined with the fact that it's not nearly as well known, plays a huge advantage to the quality of the comments. Not that there aren't people like that here either, but I feel like the more popular a platform, is, the more it gets filled, proportionally, with people trying to make witty, shitty, pointless remarks that are often clickkbaity and avoid actual discussion, all in the interest of just getting more imaginary points.

Also the process of "enshitification" (not a term I made up, look it up if you hadn't heard of it) has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

I'm part of the problem. 85.4% of my comments are shit posts only I think are funny.

[–] EdibleFriend 115 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hey, don't be like that. I am sure a lot of people find your shitposts funny.

Not me. I looked.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago

Not me. I looked

I actually had a chuckle at this one.

[–] random9 35 points 8 months ago (11 children)

lol @ the exact percent

But no, I don't think shitposts by themselves are actually the problem. I think the problem is when when there's so many people dedicated to making shitposts that serious communities with serious discussions start getting overwhelmed with shitposts, and when there's so many people who are only interested in shitposts that they upvote those shitposts to the top, often downvoting anyone who might offer a contrarian non-funny opinion.

or IDK, I'm mostly speculating based on personal experience.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 8 months ago (25 children)

All I see is cherry picking random dumb comment thread and trying to spin it as if it defines the whole use base / experience and thinking Lemmy is used by the most sophisticated intellectuals.

[–] lobo 37 points 8 months ago

This needs a coffee mug.

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[–] voracitude 87 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Only the best, the finest human-generated datasets. For the discerning AI trainer.

Welcome to Burger King! Can I take your order?

ohgodherewego.jpg

Can I get a large-

Hell yeah!

-a large Whopper meal with-

Love. This. Order.

-with a side of barbecue sa-

this needs to be on a mug!

Heavy internal sigh

Sauce.

I approve, perfectly stated. That'll be $98.42, NTA, please pull around to the window to pay and have a yeet day!

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago (23 children)

It’s actually kind of crazy how like… stupid Reddit got over the past 2 years.

Like don’t get me wrong Lemmy isn’t exactly an intellectual powerhouse either, but especially on the front page of Reddit it truly feels like you’ve gathered a few thousand of the dumbest people ever and made them high five. Browsing the science and dataisbeautiful subs is insane

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[–] mlg 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Surprised the top reply wasn't "this"

[–] A_Random_Idiot 38 points 8 months ago
[–] ignotum 33 points 8 months ago

Haha! Yes! So true! This! This right here! 😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Fully believe a lot of these are bots. I refuse to believe that humans act like this at that magnitude

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (11 children)

We're no better here. Lemmy has its own brand of cringe.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (9 children)
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[–] Feathercrown 52 points 8 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (20 children)

I have gone back a while ago. Some subs are bad but most I frequent are the same as before. I now use lemmy on my phone and reddit on the PC. At least on reddit the Linux cult doesnt try to convert you everytime you say the word windows.

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[–] vala 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Play Reddit games, win Reddit prizes.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Give it some time, Lemmy will get there eventually.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (6 children)

These cannot be the comments of real people.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Not much worse than people constantly evangelizing Linux, whining about cars, and all the other Lemmyisms that have seeped between instances.

[–] Cicraft 67 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I'll take real engagement over bot traffic any day of the week

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago

This needs a coffee mug

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wow you just won the internet for today. 🤓

[–] abracaDavid 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)
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[–] TropicalDingdong 35 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Edit: Wow this post blew up, thanks for all the upvotes!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (7 children)

What I find weird, is why people would comment that kind of worthless stuff when they could just give an upvote. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. It is just worthless fluff.

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[–] ConstantPain 33 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I just assume everybody is 12 years old. It's the only way to explain most of the behaviors I see.

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[–] Arthur_Leywin 33 points 8 months ago

I could probably find something similar on Lemmy. The fixation on Reddit is annoying when people could just use Lemmy and forget about Reddit.

[–] peopleproblems 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh God

Were we that cringy?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (10 children)

One time I went to a local Reddit meet up. Yep, it was all that cringy

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the reddit meetup in 2014?

It was at a tech office on a Saturday.

I got a free beer. But I literally smelled the atmosphere, and realized it was gonna be a Magic the gathering/nerd expo but filled with angry drunken weirdos and I left.

The next day, the organizers sent a mass email asking for people to chip in. Someone broke the pool table. Someone ripped pages out of a manual. Someone stole name plaques from a managers office.

They complained about having to clean up vomit and we can "do better redditors!"

I think about that a lot.

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