Yes, and I’ve noticed something very odd. There seems to be some sort of false engagement and fake upvotes going on for average users.
Normally I post a smart-ass comment, and either get ignored, or down-voted a couple times…
Ever since the API restrictions, it’s like no matter what I post, it gets a few upvotes very quickly. Some of these have mini explosions and gain a bit of traction.
I’m also seeing A LOT more activity on some of my other niche subs.
It just seems so fake and contrary to my prior 11 years of experience, makes no sense unless it is being bot driven.
I received a couple of “fucking racist” from a person because I said in a post that immigration to rich countries should be controlled i.e. borders cannot just be opened and let everyone move anywhere, or else their economy and social situation could be affected
No, I have a couple small communities that I have pull into an RSS reader that still works somehow, but I stay logged out and never comment. 12 year account with 29k karma and I quit cold turkey and mostly went back to RSS feeds.
Yes. I like reddit’s posts more, but the Memmy app is more stable on my phone than the official reddit app, plus no ads. So I’m currently using both, but as Lemmy’s community grows and matures I’ll probably start using reddit less.
For me, it was a reoccurring nightmare that was more of a feeling than some story or vision. It’s really hard to explain, but it always followed the same pattern: I’m doing something (and not in a “doing” way, just some feeling of activity), then this activity somehow starts to speed up until it rushes at an unimaginable speed, and then suddenly comes the realization that this thing is endless and lasts forever, so the speed subsides leaving a lingering feeling of dread and despair.
I remember trying to describe it using this metaphor as a kid (again, nothing here is literal): I’m walking somewhere, first normally, and then speeding up, with walking morphing into an exhaustive and panicked run, until the realization that the destination is only getting further the faster you run hits, so I go back to walking, but feeling crushed at this realization.
I also remember describing or thinking about these dreams in other ways, like flipping through pages of some important book ever faster, until it dawns on me that the book is in fact infinite, for example. Or exerting more and more effort to think of some specific word until I realize that it doesn’t exist. Stuff like that.
i still have a million things ‘saved’ on reddit i need to check out and there’s that one niche sub i lurk that doesn’t seem to want to migrate but other than that nah
On Reddit, up/down was intended to be used as relevant or not relevant. Then Facebook came around with the Like button and changed the standard.
Coming from the perspective of Digg, Reddit was about sharing external content and giving something an upvote was used to promote that content while a downvote was used to discourage that content from being seen. It was democratic in that the users were relied on for ranking posts without the need for moderators having to establish rules and remove things.
Then Reddit employed an algorithm and most people visit Popular and All making it a shitstorm of irrelevance. People upvote stuff they like that has absolutely no reason to be posted in a sub. Never mind everything that’s gone on with Reddit in recent months, it’s users’ inability to properly use the upvote / downvote buttons that has caused the site to become absolute trash.
Here, we have the added tool of the Star to indicate that we like something while at the same time downvoting it because it’s not relevant to the sub. The problem is that the vast majority of people don’t want to think about or put any effort into anything. At this point, anything that looks like a thumbs up is getting selected because they like it.
If you disagree with someone, you shouldn’t do anything unless you have something to say. Engage with them in conversation and express your point of view - this is “social media”. If others feel your point is relevant you should get an upvote; if you’re off topic you should get a downvote.
Reading over the other comments here, I think most people are expressing a similar perspective. It’s about rankings, not feelings.
This made it so big people outside of Lemmy were talking about it. I overheard some co-workers talking about it and I was like you’re on Lemmy?? And they were confused.
I’ve noticed I haven’t really been enjoying my time on Reddit anymore. Since the shutdown of Apollo, I’ve found simple tasks like search and going to my favorite subreddits a chore.
Discussions inside of the posts also have deteriorated and I feel like I’m seeing way more AI generated content on askreddit and aita etc. Bots have also run rampant on subreddits like interestingasfuck.
Lemmy is reminding me of Reddit from 2010 . Lots of memes, smaller communities with great discussions. Also love it being connected to Mastodon.
What I’ve realized is I’ve just ended up spending more time outside of any of these apps, which might have ended up being a blessing.
Very sensitive smell so i can tell somethings burning or notice dangerous smells much quicker then everyone else tho it feels more like a curse cause a lot of smells are overwhelming and makes me sick.
I used to worship at the altar of Smashing Pumpkins. Some (though not all) of their stuff holds up pretty good still, I think. They’re good at concepts and imagery. Er, were. Teargarden by Kaleidyscope was kinda the last thing of theirs I bothered with, and I’d started to fall off well before that, too. **Shame level 3/10 **just because I was obsessive about deep-diving every single one of their tracks (from their first few albums anyway).
I was gonna say Linkin Park at first blush, and would have followed through with that, except that just a couple of weeks ago I played through Hybrid theory and thought “y’know, this isn’t my style of music anymore but it’s not bad, not bad at all.” Still, the supposed emotional resonance I had with them puts this at Shame Level 4/10 because, looking back as an adult, most of them are pretty pandering towards angsty teens. Shame Level 4/10
Felt the same about Weird Al. I mean, okay, I cringe at how UPROARIOUS and CLEVER and SUBVERSIVE I thought he was as a kid, but the music is fine for what it is and I feel it accomplishes what he, as an artist, set out to do. And while corny it’s not quite cringy. Shame level 4.5/10
Glenn Miller and other mid-20th-century big-band/swing stuff. Not bad on the face of it, really - still good, in fact, if that’s your thing. But as with the others, the reasoning behind them is the reasoning for the Shame Level 6/10 - yes, I segued into your typical fedora-tipping “le gentleman” Humphrey Bogart wannabe around 2007-2009. Urgh. At least it was before the REAL BIG WAVE of that swept over the Internet and everyone was doing it.
Testament is perhaps my greatest shame since I was desperately trying to become a metalhead but really didn’t care for their music all that much? I figured if I listened to it enough times it’d eventually just all click. NOPE. But I kept on with that for several years. Shame level 8/10. Throw Metallica (esp. Death Magnetic, which I slavishly adored) and your other typical Guitar Hero RAWK EDITION tracks that your typical identity-less 00’s teen woulda latched onto. You get the picture. (Slight redemption: I did discover Gamma Ray through this phase and, as with Smashing Pumpkins above, I relistened the album Heading for Tomorrow and honestly really appreciate the positive/happy/hopeful messages in songs like Heaven Can Wait. A bright little happy diamond among a genre inundated with DEATH AND PAIN AND SUFFERING IS ALL THERE IS.", and it helped me kinda realize that “hey, you don’t gotta be all doom and gloom all the time, man. Light only shines where you let it in.”
Dragged down by some of their other stuff which is weirdly Christian-leaning (nothing wrong with that, nor their spin on it, since it’s not all in your face) and anti-government (which I think they did more as a concept album than anything else, but), which I ran with all the way into the conspiracy-idiot hole for a few years. IT’S THE JEWS MAN. Ugh. GREATEST SHAME. 11/10 (but that’s on me for how I interpreted and interacted with their artwork, not really the art itself)
DLC: Why did I like I My Me Mine so much? I’d blast it everywhere as a teen because I saw it on the Gaia Online profile of some lolsorandumb e-girl – not that we had the term then. Probably just to annoy people.
Speaking of pre-e-girls, there was this other online girl whom I was head over heels with who really liked the uh…weirdly soft “let me fill this emotional void of yours” sort of music, from bands like The Spill Canvas and Jason Mraz and Owl City. OUCH but I didn’t need to remember that, but I did, and I’m putting it down here at the deepest circle of hell.
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