My only issue is the bots that mirror reddit content over.

And it's not that it's from reddit that bothers me, none of the posts I've seen ever have any engagement. So it feels like spam.

i just block the people here who just spam content from reddit 50 times a day. and it's always the shittiest ragebait, and if you point it out, they go apeshit on you and harass you and report you and call you a facist/nazi etc.

then tend to be really dumb people who are true believers that post ragebait is 'fighting the good fight'.

Dude, Lemmy is literally Reddit Junior nobody using this website has a leg to stand on complaining about stuff from Reddit making its way here LOL.

Blasphemy!

Sincerely, someone who does not watch either.

Wait. They are two different things?

yeah but how do you feel about their bastardization in the past decade?

This is the way.

that makes them angry though.

Rage bait is the worst internet trend to date. Yeah yeah, I know trolling always existed, but it was actually funny sometimes, done to bait assholes or uppity people usually, and done for the love of the game. Rage bait is just doing something out if pocket or legitimately bad just to get eyeballs on you which now translates to free money for them because the world is a fucked up place that rewards people with no principles now. My wife just saw a TikTok video where some jackass stuck his hand down his pants and the rubbed his hand on his toddler's face. What the actual fuck are we doing, humanity?

I stopped using Facebook because I got tired of all of that. "You won't believe what [other party] is doing"...

I wonder if Palestinians just want to be chill and happy

I'm glad someone said this. I don't have two fucks to give about Firefox's marketing department marketing their browser.

I had to lol at Firefox today, it wouldn't let me log into my modem because it was DANGEROUS. Awwww. Lucky I have Librefox as well, it lets me play with matches and drink puddle water.

Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people

Like ProtonVPN whos ceo once praised the appointement of some judge who had done good things before (anti big corpo something IIRC), but he was appointed by trump.

Yeah, not super duper smart there, but years and years and years of fantastic experience? Worthless I guess.

those are the same people who cause all the drama in their own lives.

they love the celebrity stuff because it validates their own misery and poor choices. they view themselves as the poorly treated diva.

A lot of celebrity gossip is rooted in the true crime aspect of it. Like the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drama - one of the women was literally throwing metal barstools at her children while fighting with her partner. The outrage stems from people wanting her held accountable in some form. And the networks know that outrage will spur more views.

I don't see it any different than indulging in sports gossip or even Fediverse related gossip (Tesseract incident, anyone?). People like to indulge in some judgment and outrage at others. It can be unhealthy, but mostly I think it's a rather neutral, human thing to do.