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Welcome! We're happy to have you here.
If they get rid of the bots, though, there won't be any more posts.
Yep, sometimes I think they run all those bots.
Get ready for the tankies and other assholes to scare off all the new users again :D
People who are "scared off" by leftwing politics are probably happier elsewhere anyway
Usually when people leave reddit, many communists do come and find a much better place here. I think it's good that we have a lot of left wing people here, and have little tolerance for right-wing and pro-imperialist views.
That's how practically the entirety of the Internet was before it was monopolized and shoved into apps on smartphones. It was all leftists and hobbyists.
Yep, it's kinda fun that way.
You mean a place where you can have intelligent discourse without somebody smearing shit all over while parroting Fox News talking points?
I wouldn't say social media is a good space for intelligent conversations, haha.
Maybe my standards have been lowered by nextdoor. Nobody spelling you "ewe" because they're using voice to text and not proof reading their brain diarrhea.
That's fair, haha.
Do you prefer hanging out with the reactionaries?
Idk, yβall are not much better than Reddit. Just a different kind of sycophant here.
What are the problems with wanting production and distribution to be collectivized and oriented around needs, rather than profits? How is this comparable to Reddit?
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Every time this happens we gain new comrades while filtering out the worst of the insufferable reddit stereotypes to the reddit instances, thus keeping the rest of the fediverse clean. We are like mussel colonies filtering out fedora behavior. You're welcome.
We dont want those bots here either
Let's be honest. The fediverse will also have a huge bot problem soon. We kind of have this right now, but if you look a little bit further in the future, when we maybe come a little bit more relevant, spammers and scammers and all those propagandists will also come here. I suspect that they're already here.
Currently we have no protection at all. You can setup an instance, federate and start with your federated vote manipulation. Our human moderators can't keep up with bots posting spam to their community and we are totally helpless against LLM bots pushing some agenda.
Yup. Conspiracy theories aside, the bot problem is an actual hard problem to solve.
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I've been thinking of creating a new account through Tor, so that I could reconnect with my former communities who are still active there since, unfortunately, Reddit is still bigger than Lemmy. But with this new stupid identity verification rule from Reddit, I don't think I will come back to the site.
I guess I will recreate the communities I've been missing here in Lemmy instead, which I have been thinking of doing for a long while now.
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Though I'm new here, lots of communities rules are copypasta from breddit, so what's honestly different on here?
Many more communists and linux enthusiasts.
Less porn. Most of it seems to be from Reddit copy bots. So I guess that's the real effect we are going to notice.
We don't need more people, we need more good content!
the damage is spread much thinner across the spaces. instead of one major peice of shit, you have many fiefdomes, and only most are smaller peices of shit.
but hey! there is always the next horizon. move to a better instance when needed
You have to read between the lines. This just gives them the option to label anybody they want as a "bot" with virtually no way to challenge them. They can now ban anybody they wish for posting content they don't agree with (pro-gaza, anti-israel, anti-capitalist, etc).
They already ban anybody they wish without recourse or actionable means to challenge them.
-Reddit Refuge banned for life for being critical of the fascist state of Israel.
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"-We donβt need or want your identity"
LUL
verification is just a fancy marketing word for 'Digital Tagging'. We are witnessing the death of the anonymous internet in real-time. First, they track your clicks, then they demand your ID under the 'anti-bot' excuse By 2026, the digital grid will be so tight that 'Human' and 'User ID' will be inseparable. Glad I jumped ship to the Fediverse before the cage doors locked. This is exactly why I've been documenting this transition from the 90s privacy to the 2026 surveillance grid the 'Exodus' has truly begun
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Spez (Reddit CEO) just put out an announcemen talking about how they'll verify humans via a new rectal probe in collaboration with Meta AI that 3D scans your log factory.
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Funny how this ties nicely into Metaβs lobbying for age verification and how itβs suddenly a conversation we keep seeing crop up. The pattern recognition tools in my brain see nothing but constant red flags these days.
They flooded the web with bots, advertisers are backing out because of it, and now both Spez and Zuck are panicking.
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Something tells me that won't end well for them.
Will reveal how much their population is bots.
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Literally why I'm here. Some bullshit in their bot detection flagged me as a bot, and disabled my account, that I had for 7 years.
The only thing I miss from reddit is my favorite small niche subs.
Invisible bicycles.
Where people take photos of people on bicycles and Photoshop out the bicycle. You can request or do the edits.
Forbiddensnacks
Photos of stuff that looks like delicious food but is not food.
There was another with short videos of animals in sync. Like chickens or dogs .
Oh and another that was photos of cats, sitting on clear glass. The photos were from the underside.
There was another photoshop battle one. Where there was a prompt and then everyone would submit a photoshopped mash of the prompt.
But I bet AI has ruined that one.
What is this. People posted pictures of stuff that the community tried to figure out what it was
Retro futurism. Just posts about that.
I think I miss forbidden snacks the most.
Im also someone with a million hobbies. So I really miss those. Some are here too. Bigger ones like 3d printing and photography but not stained glass. Not sure if there is one for Blender. I should check.
Subs for specific games like remedy games, zelda. Animal crossing.
Honestly I'm from the time where there used to be forums for these things and I liked forums just fine.
I get that smaller population means less niche communities.
I'm okay with it. But I will be honest and say I miss my niche indie subs. I hate that it's been ruined. And that it's dead.
Facebook groups still exist though and many are acceptable. Especially for the indie games and hobbies.
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