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Finally tried the official Reddit app. It's as bad as they say.

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[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 302 points 1 year ago

who the fuck designed this?

[-] AllegedCoyote@midwest.social 204 points 1 year ago

Also the "actual fucking content" is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 42 points 1 year ago

yeah, was gonna say that's a user issue but it's in the biggest scabreddit so that's kind of on the admins too

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a symptom of the platform altogether. It has karma, which isn't just 'some number', it actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page. This is why people sell accounts.

I think Lemmy will have a much more organic feel until the major instances realize they can also manipulate posts for cash. However, I feel it will still lack a huge portion of reposts and repost bots

[-] Amilo159@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

11 years on Reddit and I didn't know karma helped get to frontpage faster. I had 660k comment karma..

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 7 points 1 year ago

okay, that i didn't know. i have come across subreddits with karma requirements and i'm also aware of the logarithmic relation between upvotes and post age (basically for every X amount of time you need 10x the upvotes to stay at the same relevance) but not that account karma actually counted for that one. it can help a lot with comment rate limits though.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

it (karma) actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page.

Now I remember I suspected this, before I deleted my account a couple of years ago. I bet that's contributing to reddit getting worse. It breaks the user response mechanic.

[-] domage@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

By the way, it seems like the comments to that post could be also generated/copy-pasted by other bots… and another set of bots +1 that comments :0/

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

My 18mth deep depression exacerbated by doom-scrolling Reddit 12hrs per day may have been a fucking bot psyop to make me miserable. Lemmy has been a huge boost to my mood. Feel like I'm waking from a coma since coming here.

[-] TwoFace211@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago

Wow I'm sorry. My Reddit app just stopped working and the app said "hey what about Lemmy" so now I'm here.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Me too feel way better than I did on Reddit. The comments and post don't piss me off and I enjoy posting on here. Also nice not worrying over karma and if my post our comments are getting attention.

A weight off my shoulders.

[-] RealNooshie@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago

My guess is someone who really, really, really wants you to see the advertisements. With a little bit of content on the side.

[-] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one

This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures

idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify "ready player one" when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles

[-] Cerbero@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hell the screen from Idiocracy rings a fucking bell seeing this.

[-] meldroc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or for really old-school nerds, Max Headroom. There were the Zik Zak "Blipvert" ads that were hyper-accelerated until they literally made people's heads explode (like in Scanners).

[-] ihavenopeopleskills@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Would you like some usable content with your ads?

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