Great… it’s like dollar store Facebook or Quora for 12 year olds or something.

Its that or relationship/AITA type posts that are so wildly insane I dont know why anyone bothers replying.

My (58M) wife (18F) cheated on me with my brother's ex-girlfriends hockey coach. AITA for not attending SIL's wedding because her dress code specifies hockey jerseys and they refuse to tell me if BXGHC will be there? Also the dinner is a plate of skittles, which I have a bad history with.

The titles sounds like research for BuzzFeed articles. "The ten movies that hook you from the beginning" etc. Wouldn't surprise me if the posts are just lazy article farms.

The only worth it really had were the niche communities. Some of which became meme centric over time and went down the shitter.

I jumped over here on lemmy and till today im still confused on the instances, federation and defederation thing. It seems a lot of the niche communities I used to partake in do have multiple equivalent instances, but none of them are active. I actually feel lost over here if I'm being perfectly honest...

Synthetic engagement.

I think it's been this way for a while, maybe 8 years. I also think there are certain companies that pay reddit for this kind of engagement. It's a completely unfounded conspiracy theory of mine own, but I think Disney and Marvel fandoms have been synthetically built up using this kind of astroturfed engagement. By using my bots to build a strong baseline, you create the sense that there is far more involvement than there actually is. Because these bots are owned by reddit, they can steer the engagement. It's not a guarantee, but it's a part of an overall strategy.

1. Question is a common question people Google for. Potentially AI generates.
2. Post is filled with AI bots answering to inflate user numbers.
3. Post is used by websites to generate new content. Often by AI.
4. AI scrapes reddit post for data, and verified it on those websites.
5. AI ouroboros

Perhaps there really are thousands of worthwhile comments to make about these topics.

Couldn't even keep a straight face writing that.

I'm not sure what's so weird about this

What profession is willing to pay for social media recruitment?

What prejudice do you want to have confirmed?

What product do you wish to advertise?

What media product do you wish to advertise?

Can you believe this obvious lie?

Prolly bots doing bots thing.

So, one of the benefits of decentralization is that I don't Lemmy will ever get to that point, honestly.

On reddit, there is only one or two places everyone goes to for these kind of "ask the community" kind of things. Due to how reddit works, your comments will be buried in one of these threads big threads if you comment too late, but people will gamble and join the rat-race for karma.

On Lemmy though, since there are a couple of "ask Lemmy/our instance" comms, the people who don't want to have their comment buries in one of those gigantic threads has options to go to one of the less active communities instead.

I am on Lemmy to not have to see it.

AITA -insert fake story that never happened where I'm clearly the asshole-

Reddit has devolved into a Taboola chum feed.

“Men of reddit: What is something that women do that we don’t want them to do that we could collectively tell them to stop doing? I’ll start: not letting me sleep with their sister“

Looks like some tacky headline articles from a magazine or something. So glad I left that place. Can we let it rott in silence

Everyone’s a bot there except you it seems

Reddit sucks.

Consider nuking your comments then deleting your account:

https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku

While you were using the subreddits you were subscribed to, the general default subreddits were always seeing activity like this.

But over time reddit has been attracting a far more general audience of regular people from other social media platforms.

The same questions every fuckin day. This was the reason I unsubbed from all of the default subs and in the end at least part of the reason I moved here

Bots

That's looks like everyday reddit.