OC. (as always, feel free to steal any meme I post!)
Not really sure lemmy is all that much better from an outrage addict perspective, at least looking at All. Sure things are better if you curate your feed a bit, but that’s true on the other platforms as well.
From looking at All I definitely agree. Feed curation seems like the answer, but I haven’t found enough active communities for the kind of variety I want, and All feels like the right place to look for more.
Fortunately the Star Trek memes here are hot enough to melt dilithium crystals, and that’s all I really need!
Reddit keeps suggesting outrage bait when I check back in on college football game threads (which seemingly does not exist on Lemmy). Lemmy is never going to “because you once looked at a thread in this community”
the glaring lack of college football content on lemmy has been the biggest disappointment I have had. When I left twitter, I couldnt get real time sports news updates, /r/cfb filled that void. There is no comparable community yet in lemmy, or if there is, I havent found it
The biggest opinions get the most attention
Yeah i opened reddit recently and was immediately hit with those fake AITA stories that somehow i once kinda believed, and now, after being in more sane communities, those stories just look fabricated for maximum interaction.
It baffles me how i never realised reddit, twitter and other socials leveraged the outrage machine so much until i joined lemmy.
I was surprised to see so many “AITA for cutting out certain foods? Yes, buy Weight Watchers, asshole!” ads disguised as posts. I’m sure they’re not new, but using a third party app meant I never had to see them.
Twitter is bad too. On top of the outrage bait, there’s a ton of garbage posts that are just designed to farm engagement: “Which of these 12 movies from the 1990s is your favorite?” - and the post is just 12 numbered movie covers.
I don’t mean to bitch or anything, but this kind of post (other social platforms are bad) is a pretty decent engagement farm as well.
I think this post is likely to get people talking, but the intent was just to make something funny.
The stuff I’m referring to on twitter is this kind of (borderline phishing in this case) nonsense:
I went back and got irrationally angry… immediately realized Reddit was pure cancer.
I’m pretty sure the stories themselves are fake but a lot of the situations are plausible that I can kind of see happening some time. The comments sometimes have a lot of useful guidance for navigating complicated social situations. But yeah I do agree with you overall.
Ah yes, also I a fellow American agree that there is definitely no astroturfing going on here
What if instead of sarcastic comments you just provided evidence or reasoning to bolster your claim so we can stop breeding more fucking dumb asses who take whatever you say on the surface as gospel?
Isn’t that why astroturfing works?
It’s not leaving social media if you can go back. Delete that shit and never look back
A concoction so vial it makes people leave. …“we could make a religion out of this…”
If this meme was about Lemmy, it would be getting blasted by furry post
A particularly good meme captain
Thank you, Lieutenant “Pickle” Casmael.
I still use Facebook (mainly for Simpsons memes and Marketplace), but the X and Reddit ones OOF, they’re totally true.
I didnt visit my tumblr for a week and acquired 30 new pornbot followers.
Tumblr Live and all the new algorithm fuckery is really messing up the site : (I’ve been out of the loop for a while, but didn’t tumblr remove their porn? I guess they brought it back?
Eh they cracked down hard on all queer and trans stuff to the point of banning users over posting fully clothed selfies, but hetro cis stuff is still everywhere.
The pornbots have been around for years but they’ve ramped up big time since Tumblr Live came online.
