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Reddit is the latest platform to embrace the ‘For You’ feed (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The “For You” pages are the opposite of democracy. They are the door to advertisement and government propaganda.

It hurts to see a “For You” page on Reddit precisely because Reddit was a democratic space on the internet. Now it’s just another enshitified hell-hole.

And that is why I love Lemmy. Lemmy is very much democratic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    The Fediverse is easily manipulable by bots. You can't have democracy with an unknown percentage of bots voting.

    Examples:

    • This anti-AI post initially got suppressed by 17 downvotes, hiding it from many people's feeds.

    • This post trying to plan the future of AGI got more downvotes than upvotes (when I view it on piefed.social - Beehaw has deferated from where the downvotes came from). Do people on Lemmy really think this timely, important topic should be suppressed from other people's feeds, or was it big tech bots pre-empting budding attempts on alternative paths threatening their dominance? USA DoW has an office for pre-emptive technological sabotage: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/22/technology-support-office-dod-tech-spyware-sabotage-01100327

    • My post about U.S. surveillance-enabled manipulation got 6 downvotes early on. None of the comments addressed the main question in my post. Commenters and downvoters of my comments are complaining about my writing in my second language, accusing me of using AI to write the post, which I didn't. Even Pangram AI-detector says all of my text is human-written, and finds only two direct quotes from a different website AI-generated.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I’m sorry to hear those posts weren’t as popular as many of us would liked.

    Just to understand the situation better, how do you know the initial votes were negative? I know Lemmy isn’t private, but I wouldn’t know how to check votes and timestamps.

    For what it’s worth, if bots are trying to suppress AI criticism, they’re doing an awful job with my feed. My experience with Lemmy is one where the costs and risks of AI are front and center in almost any conversation.

    I wonder if my admins are being proactive against the bots. Or whether the bots are more active in some posts than other posts.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    They've already been sliding in this direction for a while.

    Now the "Best" sorting method is the default on the homepage, which is like "Hot" except more scattershot and based heavily on what they think you haven't seen yet. This is just another disappointment in eroding the original experience that made the platform worth using, and not simply being used by it.

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    [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Hyper-ego! Inflate!

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    [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Thus, the enshittification continues, and the users do nothing.

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    [–] 46 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    and man is it enshitified

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    • [–] 30 points 1 week ago

    Slow walking the transformation of a discussion forum into a propaganda machine...

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    [–] 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    They got rid of r/all, then ruined the rest of the sort algorithms, now it's just "Popular", "News", and "Latest" and it's just ass, old posts, tons of reposts, almost no local/state/country subs, just horrible compared to how the site used to work.

    Also the timing of killing r/all right before the midterms is pretty interesting, all these tech bro fuckers are trying to control and manipulate the world and nobody is doing anything about it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Maybe its not a lot but i thought we here where doing at least something by moving to a decentralised platform?

    Who is even supposed to be the knight to kill the tech industry dragon? Our leaders love the dragon.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    It's insane watching all these layoffs happening and thinking "well if this happened in the early 90's or early 2000's surely someone would spin up a new business to compete with their old company" but who has the money? What if President dickhead and his merry band of racist pieces of shit won't let them have a business license or other things they need? People are straight up being iced out of our upward mobility while corruption and nepotism are taking over.

    All in all it leads me to feel like the only people who are going to save us from them is someone choosing decisive actions, and sooner than later, but then what? Because there will be major fallout.

    Hopefully Brazil and other nations impacted bring some of this to heel, but most likely Big Tech will ignore them until there's a change in leadership in the US, one that will hold them accountable, but we'll see if we fumble the midterms.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Even if we don't fumble midterms Trump said he was going to set fire on shit if they lose, so it's not like it's going to be just fine then.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    I'm glad someone else is paying attention, I don't know how we on the Left haven't gotten plans together for their next Jan 6 like attempt, or far worse.

    I swear everyday is like living in the flashbacks leading up to the formation of the Republic of Gilead in the Handmaid's Tale show, and as a dad and grandfather to a whole bunch of daughters and granddaughters it's really worrisome, especially since I'm no longer the able-bodied man I used to be.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I have my plans together.

    Talk to your friends, tell them they're pos if they still like the pedophile, you're a old man they'll listen to you. Not me or any other woman.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    I've already excised all the MAGAs I comfortably can from my life, my oldest son and his wife are deep in the cult, my oldest daughter is engaged to one, and my father is one, outside of our future son-in-law we don't really engage the others too much, my son's wife got into a Facebook fight with my mother-in-law and we've apparently been dead to them ever since, and my dad lives states away from me and his vote is meaningless anyway, he lives in a deep blue area. I keep the peace with my old man for my lil brother and step-mom's sake, but we usually have screaming matches when we get on the phone together, super not fun, but get along perfectly in person, because he suddenly remembers I'm not a 14 yr old boy anymore.

    Outside of my daughter-in-law and her family, at least the few MAGAs still in my orbit are super quiet about it to the point where we still question it, my daughter in-law and her family are nuts about it though, scarily so. At this point we're mostly trying to hang in there to protect and be there for the grandkids.

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    • [–] 27 points 1 week ago* (8 children)

    Users: Bring back r/all and 3rd party apps!

    reddit "leadership": Sorry, best we can do is a new dumpster fire of a feed that everybody hates.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Still they needed to do was roll back to 2010 Reddit and they'd be good again. But that's ok, we have Lemmy now. Let Reddit rot.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    We have the Fediverse now, Lemmy is only part of it. That said, I'd rather have the Fediverse than any version of reddit if I had to choose.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Yeah, I still don't fully understand the fediverse thing, but I'm on here so I guess that's a start lol

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It's like email, where you can send messages between yahoo and google, except that concept for social media networks.

    Federation is just the idea that different systems communicate and share using a common protocol.

    Email is federated, i.e. emails have a specification to how they can be sent. The fediverse uses activitypub, which allows for sharing of content between servers.

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    • [–] 20 points 1 week ago

    Aaron Swartz must be rolling in his grave.

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    [–] 17 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    More enshittification of what was once one of the best sites on the innertubes. I have been a member for 14 years after a few years of just lurking. Got permanently banned a couple of weeks ago for Dog knows what! Thought about appealing for 10 seconds and realized they did me a favor. The IPO was their fucking downfall. Good riddance to the bot farm.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    There are many subs that are downright unusable now. Some are so insanely rightwing I don't know if this is actually what society is like or whether these are all bots stirring shit up and masturbating each other

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    • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    If I hadn't left already, this would have been non-negotiable. Even twitter allows you to only see posts by the people you follow.

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    [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    Yup that's what made me leave.

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    [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    Peeetuhhh

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    [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Reddit got super gross really quickly

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    [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    u/spez is just chasing the cash now.

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