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Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

First time this happens since a few months

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[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 89 points 5 months ago

Hi I’m new here. My friend has been trying to get me in for ages. The reason I am here is because my Reddit account of 10 years and one of 3 years got permabanned. And it was really for no reason. I tried to make a new account and that also got instantly permabanned. That’s when I found out that my 10year account also got banned. So yeah fuck what happened on Reddit.

I’m really liking lemmy and my iOS app (mlem) and enjoying the community. The only thing I miss from Reddit is the video integration.

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

What I don't miss from reddit is the bot comments. Not the novelty bots that reply if your comment is in alphabetical order or something like that, but actual chat gpt responses to regular posts or comments.

I have no idea what the point of them is, but they're awful.

[-] uhN0id@programming.dev 34 points 5 months ago

Those were getting so out of hand.

u/OP: "What's a good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming"

u/DefinitelyNotABot: "A good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming is something you should be looking for if you need a mouse that is good for work and play. A good mouse for productivity and gaming will have a good balance of performance and features. Fortunately, finding a good mouse for a mix of productivity and gaming is not difficult due there being plenty of mouse options available to you[.....]"

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

What's the point of those types of bots, though? I guess they're just trying to have vaguely genuine looking accounts to use for some future purpose, maybe political or advertising related.

[-] uhN0id@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago

My best guess is karma farming so they can sell them off. Probably create hundreds of accounts they can sell off. If some brand buys an account that looks reputable for $20-$100 to use it for astroturfing then that's a pretty good deal for both sides. Shitty deal for everyone else.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That and building convincing personas for propaganda and PR. An account agreeing with pro corporate policies is more convincing if it has a long post history.

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

They'll sooner or later appear here too, that's sadly a reality all social media will suffer from now on. No filter can detect AI replies for long.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Do you think users, moderators, and admins on Lemmy could be more equipped (or at least more incentivized) to combat malicious bots compared to Reddit?

[-] mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Running such a bot with an intentionally underpowered language model that has been trained to mimic a specific Reddit subculture is good clean absurdist parody comedy fun if done up-front and in the open on a sub that allows it, such as r/subsimgpt2interactive, the version of r/subsimulatorgpt2 that is open to user participation.

But yeah, fuck those ChatGPT bots. I recently posted on r/AITAH and the only response I got was obviously from a large language model... it was infuriating.

[-] hondacivic@lem.sabross.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

First rule of AITAH:

If the story isn't completely made up, no one will believe it's true.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

There are a few GitHub issues on the Lemmy repo to integrate video support:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2318
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2249

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Welcome! Hopefully you know about Lemmy Explorer, I've found it very useful in finding communities of interest to me.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

That's wild, I've said so much zeisty stuff with my account but it's still not banned.

[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

What I said wasn’t zesty at all. The only thing I can think of is someone went to all my comments and reported me. I’ve been temp banned from communities before but never banned from Reddit and would never expect to get permanently banned from Reddit the site along with my other Reddit accounts.

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I got suspended for a Boeing joke, but deleted my account after that. I hope the same does not happen to Lemmy bcz the Internet needs a place to discuss links on the Internet.