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[–] 164 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Average fediverse interaction

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  • [–] 68 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    We have very different fedi interactions. Have a nice day!

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  • [–] 90 points 7 months ago (19 children)

    Even if fedi was pure and perfect, it still exists within a wider ecosystem of algo-driven rage and it's influence leaks in from every side. It's not just that we don't exclusively get our news from the fedi it's that news articles themselves are optimized for rage, the writers are deeply under it's spell, politician's media strategy is optimized for it.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    True, there's definitely that. I guess I just wish there was more thought between that and "do I really need to post this?"

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    And those who buck the system are fired.

    ......... or worse.

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    [–] 46 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    My ragebait is vegan, so you can get mad guilt free.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    > Veganism is abstainment from, as far as is possible and practicable, the exploitation of animals for any purpose.

    > Editable meme templates are "exploitables".

    > Memes with animals are animal exploitation.

    > These are therefore not vegan and hereby banned from /c/vegan@lemmy.world.

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    [–] 23 points 7 months ago*

    4376

    Our garbage in this case

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I just like it when people post the sandwiches

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    One of my favorite subreddits back when posting photoshopped pictures of birds with arms was all the rage was /r/notbirdswitharms which was a sub where you couldn't not just post birds with arms, you couldn't post anything that wasn't a sandwich

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    The thing is, this 100% organic rage is OUR rage, not the rage of our supposed technofeudal overlords.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Geordi’s visor can see all ends of the electromagnetic spectrum, but even he can’t find the source of some Fediverse arguments. It really is farm-to-table rage here. 😂

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Sadly this is not true. We do have a recommendation system, called Top. And it spamms me with enraging american politics when I go to All.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    If it is Top, then that is what people are choosing to upvote. But you don't have to browse by Top. PieFed even offers keyword filters, plus the ability to unsubscribe from all such communities while also allowing you to see them with just the touch of a button to go to a Topic Feed showing it when you (rarely) actually do want it. You could also replicate this behavior in Lemmy, but it takes having one account per Internet area and that's a huge pain. Or you could just sort by New. Or block the users submitting such content. The list of configuration options available to you is practically endless, and nowhere explained in the slightest degree that would be helpful:-).

    !nonpolitical_comics@piefed.social does a pretty good job of keeping that stuff out.

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    less free range than you'd think. I would say at least 30% of content on the fediverse is bot originated. 5-16% of commentary is AI generated.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Ok, 5-16% is precise enough that you must have an interesting methodology to share but you were waiting for a question to prompt an answer. This is that comment.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Reddit has only gotten worse since the company went public. It's just rage bait and ads now.

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Thanks guys. This entire thread is killing me.

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  • [+] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    It is fairly easy to accept that it is just amplifying human nature. The main issue is that with the major locked down aggregators the amplification is intentional and continuously changed to increase the amplification by doing things like stuffing divisive posts into feeds.

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Just like mama used to make

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The circlejerk symbol on the bottom right is a bit weird, but doable.

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Outside of the ethical considerations, I'm not militant about the organic label. But I stopped by this little health food store in a tiny town (think ~1k pop.) in a very red state, and she told me that I would never buy brussel sprouts from anywhere else after trying her's. I was dubious at first, but I just cooked them a few hours ago, and she was absolutely correct! Best sprouts I've ever had!

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I went and scrolled facebook recently and it is absolutely crazy. You get some ads, sure, and a few things that real people posted, but like half of what is on there feels like some kind of shady psychological experiment.

    It's like a whole spectrum of flavors of ultra-processed engagement bait. Much of it is made to look like normal people posting normal things, just with a "follow" next to the name and 5,000 replies from kind old people trapped in a rabbit hole they don't even know exists.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 7 months ago

    I can't even fathom what contemporary Facebook is like. I deleted it in, I think, 2009 or thereabouts, right after they changed the timeline from reverse chronological to whatever their first iteration of the engagement-based one is. I thought that sucked pretty bad, so, yeah, can't even imagine how bad it is today.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Hell yeah! But don’t forget the beans

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