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page@discuss.online to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Every single rising post on Reddit is crypto spam

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Every single rising post on Reddit is crypto spam

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page@discuss.online to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    It’s difficult for me to give any less of a shit about Reddit. I’m perfectly happy with Lemmy.

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      We are so irrelevant that cryptoscam bots don’t target us 🎉

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        Mac users know that feel

        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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          There are Dozens of us!

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          "You’re a fat little girl, aren’t you Mac?

          “Nooooo”

          “SAY IT!”

          “I’m a fat little girl”

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        Cryptoscam bots don’t target us yet!

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        Nah we just have regular old crypto shill people instead

      • KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml
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        Course it doesn’t stop the CSAM spammers ☹️

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      It’s been a hard habit to break after 15 years, but I’m getting there.

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        Luckily for me reddit made it easy by killing 3rd party apps and I only ever browsed it with RiF.

        • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one
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          RIP Apollo.

        • thorbot@lemmy.world
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          Same, when the app I used stopped working, I tried the reddit default one and bailed out after like 5 minutes of using that ad riddled shitpile

        • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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          Same haven’t been back since I joined lemmy in June.

          • lemme_at_it@lemmy.world
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            You’ll turn into a pile of salty salt if you look back. Don’t do it 😀

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              Lol oh I understand that reference and agree I will keep looking forward. But never did get around to deleting my account.

        • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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          I still have it installed and even though it doesn’t and will never work, I still like to open it, and have it once again try to retrieve posts only to return “forbidden”. I do it for old time’s sake, like a digital pouring one out for RIF and the Reddit I used to know.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          They have yet to kill old, but I assume it’s coming, and there’s no way I’m tolerating the new interfaces.

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        I still have to google search reddit when I’m looking for specific info like opinions on games. Unfortunately lemmy’s not reasonable to search, and Reddit has a much bigger userbase with a longer time to accumulate info about most topics.

        • FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee
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          Same here

          Reddit just that niche 3 sentences of extremely specific scenarios I need

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          The best way I’ve found to search lemmy and kbin is using trystract.com with the discussions optic.

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      Went to reddit to see what the top posts were. Not much has changed.

      “I kicked a puppy. AITA?”

      “Gang of teens beat up an elderly homeless guy. Not ragebait.”

      “What are your favorite dating tips? Help me write my fluff article.”

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        The comments are just so much worse than the top posts. It is akin to Twitter after Musk pushed the main active user base away in exchange for a Faustian deal with right wingnuts. That or Reddit was truly duplicitous in their messaging and are perfectly fine taking money from propaganda organizations running in other countries which can pay the API fees to push narratives still. Not that they’d want that before an IPO or anything…

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        So the same shit as here, except for the “look at how bad Reddit is now” posts?

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        • glockenspiel@lemmy.world
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          That’s not accurate. The article is about Australia. Netflix Australia had a net loss of 200K subscribers specifically due to the anti-consumer moves they’ve made which affects a lot more than just sharing a password with a family member. That’s a 3% decline in a major country. Meanwhile, Netflix rivals had subscriptions increase overall and several saw huge surges. Netflix remains #1 by total subscribers in Australia, but that shouldn’t shock anyone given the inherit momentum they possess.

          The article was never about Netflix globally. It was always about Australia. Companies operate business units in regions, and each region must perform.

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      I always enjoy a bit of schadenfreude in the morning.

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      The API kerfuffle finally gave us the critical mass ofbusers to make it viable, and it’s only uphill from here

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    • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world
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      Agreed. Fuck Reddit

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    The enshittification is nearing completion.

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      Sphincter 1 or sphincter 2?

  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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    Stop going to Reddit?

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    What a terrible Lemmy clone…

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto… yet.

    Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.

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      Thanks for the warning Ms Robbie. I’m a big fan of your movies, do you have any further financial advise?

      • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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        You’ve seen the Wolf of Wall Street right?

        Do like the exact opposite of that.

        • Jumi@lemmy.world
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          So no drugs?

          • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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            No drugs. Also, never, ever buy a yacht, they cost way too much money and are bad for the environment.

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              The rule of three F’s.

            • Jumi@lemmy.world
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              In that case it’s not even worth the effort and I prefer to stay as I am

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      What does Lemmy silver looks like?

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        I’m glad you asked!

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          That’s a handmade version, I appreciate

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            And I appreciate you, speaker_hat!

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              • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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                Aww, shucks. 💖

                Also, that’s Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you!

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    Sorry to see you’re still using Reddit

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    This isn’t infuriating at all. Where’s my !schadenfreude community?

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      Be the change you want to see in the fediverse

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        “Nah I’d rather just sit back and silently upvote while someone else provides the content / comments”

        So many threads have tons of upvotes but less than 10 comments

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          Man you have no idea how annoying it is to dredge up enough effort to post comments and shit. Take it from me, a former 100% lurker on reddit

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          I find that having a really shit take on something tends to get even passive people talking, but I worry about the long-term effects of generating conversation that way.

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          I upvoted this comment but then felt guilty about only upvoting so here’s a comment

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    This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.

    The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.

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      Every day the Dead Internet theory looks more and more correct.

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        What that is?

        • page@discuss.onlineOP
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          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

          The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity.[1][2][3][4] These intelligent bots are assumed to have been made, in part, to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to ultimately manipulate consumers.[5] Further, proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception.[1] The date given for this “death” is generally around 2016 or 2017.

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            Good bot

            • page@discuss.onlineOP
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              Lol

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            Bots are created to generate media and web content as filler, not as a conspiracy. It’s not government lead, it’s done by social media users, media/news organizations, and others.

            However, there are how many billions online? Internets not dead.

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          Never heard of it before either, but here’s an article on it

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          Essentially GW from Metal Gear Solid 2

          MASSIVE METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SPOILERS AHEAD

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    Unrelated, but has anyone noticed that almost all posts and comments have at least one downvote?

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      When you have a platform with multiple millions of people, everyone is gonna be hated by someone

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      On reddit? Vote % is fuzzed a little to prevent spambots or something.

      On lemmy I haven’t noticed that

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        Well they changed their algo, it doesn’t work like that anymore

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          Did they? This is the first I’ve heard of it, was it a recent change?

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    I’m sorry op, I tried to summon all of my fucks, but alas, there were none to give

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      Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren

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    More like mildlyexpected

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      If you kill 10 persons in a row you can get a stealth bomber, be a chopper gunner or get an emergency airdrop. Hope that helps.

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        Hi ive done this now, where do i pick up my helicopter?

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          Claim your prize now! Just call 1-800-225-5324, that’s 1-800-CAL-LFBI.

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        As the modern heroine & profound intellectual Philomena Cunk noted, “1 in 20 people has been a victim of crime, which means that 19 out of 20 people are criminals.”

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      Don’t know for sure, but stuff like this is usually fake promises of free crypto and money. Like a “faucet” site to phish your info and probably scam your wallet or account

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    Spez can drown in the shitpile he’s created

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    In a few years Reddit will “rebrand” as a link aggregation site.

    It’s the last stage of a social media platform’s demise.

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      Have you been to digg lately? It still exists.

      Each link on the frontpage gets maybe 2-3 comments. 😂

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        Wow really? How the hell are they staying afloat?

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          The site is now just an advertising vessel for a company called BuySellAds who now own digg.

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          the only thing I can imagine is inertia

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    WTF kinda subs are you subbed to, dude?

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      It’s the rising posts for /r/all. So all the posts from all the subs that, if they continue to get up votes and comments, are close to being on the front page.

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      Not those, see the ‘join’ button?

      Edit:spelling

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