Even before the insane number of bots that are on reddit today, I believe that subreddit was one of the main ways for astroturf accounts to gain karma quickly. They knew that everyone was just there to look at happy things and would upvote heavily.
It’s been so surface level, basic and pseudo inspirational for years
Agreed. I remember joining that one at some point and I left so fast. Completely vapid.
People finally find a place to be happy and bots come and ruin it. I hate robots.
Be better: hate the humans who deployed the bots.
Be better: hate the system that incentivizes deploying bots.
I’ve got enough hate for everything.
Lmk if y’all need any extra, I’m seethin’ over here
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Even knowing that, it was a nice reprieve from the trash everywhere else.
Back in the 90s there was an article about some “spam king” guy who was blasting out millions of emails and basically crushing mail servers and making inboxes useless. They interviewed him and he was all indignant about it like “I have the right to do this” and all that.
That is when I knew the internet and humanity was doomed from the start.
There’s a Wikipedia page about him:
He looks exactly as I envisioned him
Good thing this picture was taken on a gameboy camera.
Mr Dink???
where is image from?
plus, if you’re going to break the law, there are plenty of better images to choose frombiggest version i could find, suspiciously photo has top of hair cropped
tip: if there’s no copyright notice, that means that you CANNOT use the image
that’s fine, copyright law is stupid
So…if dead internet theory has gone into effect, does that mean adverts are basically just a medium of wealth circulation between tech bros in a circle jerk?
Sounds spot on to me
Bots advertising to bots, it really is a boring dystopia…
I’d estimate as much as 50% of the entire community left on Reddit are bots. I’ve seen people being downvoted systemically, just for saying completely ordinary things that aren’t even controversial.
I mean I’ve seen that here as well via kbin back when I used it, just at a smaller scale.
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Wholesome meme: Kill All Humans.
–Bender
You have no idea how many nihilistic eco-fascists would unironically agree that “Kill all humans” is indeed a wholesome sentiment.
How can they be fascists if they want everyone to die an equal amount?
Because they don’t, letting people die for mother nature and whatever will inherently impact not white not rich people far more.
Just letting shit collapse is a position that inherently comes from a place of knowing you’ll probably be fine when the dust settles, no matter how many bodies were needed to cushion the landing.
It’s basically an even more heinous version of the sarcastic “I hate everyone equally” response to being called out for being a racist dick.
Assuming every human actually does die that leaves just other animals and the few machines we left. I really don’t see how that would help rich people.
Because you can’t kill every human. Human civilization has advanced to the point that it is capable of surviving basically anything short of everything all at once.
So with that in mind, literally any ideology of “just let it all collapse”, no matter how much the shithead insists they hate everyone equally, is a fascist wish for death upon the disfortuned and socially ostracized.
Being bad at math and insisting on a completely impossible “what I’mactually aiming for!” does not insulate you from being a racist shitbag for wanting a scenario which will inevitably cause the disproportionate slaughter of the underprivileged.
Not even the Thanos Snap escapes this, the tack on impacts will naturally hit the disfortuned and socially ostracized hardest, making it a lot less “random” as the big purple antman pocket insists it would be.
Practically it is impossible, I agree but everyone being dead leaves nobody to suffer. Logically this seems like a simple yet functional solution.
It’s simplicity on a conceptual level is what I believe attracts so many to the idea.
I didn’t expect anyone to actually consider mass genocide being a serious practical solution.
I have no idea what this Thanos thing has to do with it either.
Also I have no idea what maths has to do with this. I never mentioned an equation. Just that by everyone I indeed meant everyone. This is a theoretical solution. If humanity insisted on being practical all the time we would probably not have ended up with things like topology.
*except Fry
autocorrect appears to have turned “wholesomememes” into “wholesomeness” in your title
Thanks, updated! Not sure you’ll see the update on Mbin, there seems to be some issues on that side
Thank you! You may be relieved to know that the title change did federate!
Top tier testing!
Other than bots, who else is even still on Reddit…? :-P It’s bots interacting with bots, all the way down.
Bots and average people who used the Reddit app and don’t know what Linux is
And don’t post, apparently, only doom scroll to consume bot-produced content.
Unlike here on Lemmy, where we repost memes from Reddit:-). (j/k, there are some true heroes here who truly produce content and we love them for it!)
Can you make that graph look more like pacman?
Packman is just climbing a 45° slope.
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Maybe it’s Miss Pacman?
This chart doesn’t look right. One of the biggest slices should be “looking at reposted memes”.
Maybe it’s… “new to them”? 😜
Naw, you’re right - these must be young people, easily impressed by all the memes since the 80s that they’ve never seen before and therefore think are “new”. :-D
This needs to be on a mug!
I would be but I’m banned for no reason lol
Most of reddit seems to be bots posts now, or reddit employees. They shot themselves in the chest when they did their greedy deeds.
Long live Apollo
Oh no. Have they tried insulting their mods, taking away their perfectly fine moderation tools, replacing them with objectively worse advertisement-delivery-first apps and taunting everybody who disagrees with that decision before forcibly suppressing any protests and banning dissenting voices? Maybe that’ll help making the sub attractive for content creators.
You’re not going to believe this…
Lol I feel like any big sub would see a similar drop in quantity.
How do you even ban reposts though without mods constantly scanning the queue. Make the subreddit OC only?
there are bots who are able to check if a image is a repost or not and they can then remove the post if it’s a repost.
Begun the Bot War has.
Sadie to hear, I used to mod for that subreddit and i felt like I was making a difference. I haven’t been a mod for years and haven’t been on reddit in 2.
A meme is by definition a repost though. The reuse is literally what makes it a meme.
Yes, but identical posts within a short time frame is just spam.
You hit one of my weak spots.
Person puts text on an image “look everyone, I made a meme!”
I’ve accepted that this fight is lost
Could the same thing happen on the Fediverse? I mean could a community get overrun by bot posters without any actual humans posting? I’m not sure what the endgame of doing that would be.
There was/is a few communities that are just bots mirroring a similar community on reddit. No idea if those got canned though.
!coolguides@lemmy.ca used to be that, seems like the bot got disabled afterwards
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