This scene from Terminator reminds me of something… oh yeah:

It is Wednesday my dude. Or rather, it will be… tomorrow:-P.

No we need MORE… lack of pixels!

(Edit: image was ignoring the specified width attribute so I replaced with simply an emoji, but then the color was all messed up, probably I should not have attempted this joke)

Beautiful

Conclusion: so give up, and simply live as we must, personally?

The reader of the above sentence will likely add much to its interpretation, while I myself am not entirely sure what is meant by it.

The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon

You used it the correct way 😉

Most people wanted more content then the niche subs could offer though.

Nowadays I do think like read physical books 📚😃.

It is not “rational discourse” so much as “emotional vomit”, assuaging loneliness with robots.

The only ones who win that game are the investors in Reddit, who sell more advertisements by using the “engagement metrics” that such argumentation ramps up.

Normal, satisfied people stop talking eventually, which lowers the profit incentive so they can’t have that, now can they?

It’s like gambling but worse - it’s not mere dollars that can stop upon running out of them, but people’s time that gets bled away moment by moment, until all the other opportunities they could have been spent on are gone. Taking advantage of people’s mental illnesses, which they help foster in the first place.

As a mod of a small(-ish) gaming sub, I noticed.:-)

One example is how on r/Android, people would ignore the daily posted and pinned (or perhaps it was weekly?) mega thread, and constantly ask questions like “what phone should I buy?”, “which Android device should I purchase?”, “should I get an Android and if so, which one?” Setting aside how these are impossible without sufficient details e.g. what price range, what country is the OP from, are there relevant sales they are eyeing that would make the calculations different than from simply reading the existing posts that all ask precisely the same question ⁉️… anyway in addition to all that, it made it extremely difficult to have discussions of any real substance.

Combine this with the engagement algorithms and Reddit pushes all that crap (bc it’s “new”) above even extremely highly rated content, even if it was merely a few days old.

Post flairs helped, except that submitters entirely ignore those rules just like they do everything else. User flairs as well, except… same.

About the only thing that really worked was writing your own moderation bot. Ofc the disruption of the 3rd-party tools by making the API cost irl money 🤑💰💵💸 stopped that from working as well.

In short, you must have been in some very well-moderated spaces, possibly also niche, and if you did not browse r/all (or rather r/pop) then yeah, you could miss that trend. But it was definitely happening, and people talked about it in the subs dedicated to moderation.

It did not help that Reddit continually made changes that made it worse over time - practically hiding the rules from new posters to a community, seemingly in an effort to switch the focus away from the roots (before I joined Reddit) of having multiple forums on one combined platform - e.g. each having their own design, like CSS elements (I even made some of these!:-), to having all forums be part of one giant interconnected space, with efforts to erase divisions when moving from one community to another.

i.e. the endless streaming of “content”, but ENCOURAGING interaction via commenting or at least voting, despite whether the audience has any business doing so, e.g. whether their interactions add, do nothing to, or even detract from the conversation.

^THIS

I also choose this guy’s wife

And my bow

etc. To be fair, a little of that is just plain funny, and I hope we can allow for such here on Lemmy (it seems we do actually, when offered with respect?), but when the comments are just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of such in a row, such that it becomes impossible to find anything ELSE besides that… that is when a line has been crossed, and the platform becomes more difficult to read than it is worth. Imagine walking past a preschool on your way to work, and no matter how old you get (30, 40, 50, 60), they always remain the same - babbling as they play. Which they NEED, and hopefully you can enjoy engaging with it yourself. But at some point… don’t you need to get on over to work? When the noise crowds out the signal entirely, making more adult conversations next to impossible, then the only solution is to leave.

Or kick the kids out, i.e. moderation, but that requires enormous efforts. Some subs still do it, but the more Reddit enshittifies the harder it becomes.

And it’s not merely Reddit, it’s simply the nature of the game: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb.

I do… I would only have a shot with a half-Vulcan!:-P

I wonder if Gen X’s truly “have” homes, or just have been paying on a mortgage, which at the rate 2025 is going might put them in the same category as Millennials, or even behind, so like Z?

Come, join us… uWu…

This shirt was made by AI 🤪

I… might just finally have had enough “internet” now.:-D

You say that like you have access to healthcare.

Google searches used to work, they don’t so readily - technology, and things in general, always change(s), but it would be hubris to assume that such will always lead to it becoming “better” (for who? how?)

PieFed is trying a bunch of new stuff that even Reddit does not have, enabling the democratization of moderation by putting more power into the hands of individual users (e.g. mods don’t have to be as aggressive as removing many posts with keywords when users who want such can set their own preferences via the built-in keyword filtering, which enables All, Some, and None).

Lemmy to me looks more like a straight attempt to copy, although the modlog is a great addition - unfortunately in the absence of notifications of a moderation event, lack of modmail, and presence of an obscured moderator name, Lemmy has somehow become even more authoritian than Reddit.🤷😳

Though with a MUCH more friendly userbase, and most admins, and ofc lack of profit incentive which all by its lonesome helps a ton.

Naw braugh, just chillin’

Get that man cat some fiber!

Did you see those abs?

It was implied:-D.