Fediverse

Gross.

I continue to have my own little cognitive dissonance about the Fediverse:

The world needs more FOSS and information needs to flow in a decentralized, democratic kind of way.

Howeverrrrr.... Lemmy is awesome for we few that it clicks with. For the good of the users and especially the volunteer admins who run our instances, I am glad Lemmy is not the big glowing target that reddit is.

Maybe we just hang out and keep the lights on no matter whether it's for occasional lost Linux users or for when mainstream folks decide to ditch oligarch-tech en masse.

Didn't it start right as Helen Pao left?

If AI floods every single comment section, to the point the humaness of social media has been completely removed (which it is reaching that imo), how would it effect our consumption of it?

Looking at instagram, my feed is mostly meaningless garbage (which might be my fault to an extent), but what it has meant I simply don't find any reason to go onto it at all. Would this happen on mass if/when AI is so prevalent (lets say a 9:1 bot commenter to human commenter ratio), that we simply have no interest in it anymore?

Oh, this is great.

Users noticed that Google had too much bad results because of SEO and spam flooded search results.

Users added "reddit" to their search terms, so they get results from reddit, where spam and astroturfing were... there but manageable.

Now the SEO people and advertisers target reddit with AI tools, until it is so enshitificated that we have to find something else (rinse and repeat)

"No, don't leave, we just finished saturating the space with ads!"

"Why do you think we leave?"

Reddit right now is banning any criticism of ICE. Reddit covered up for Ghislaine's account (maxwellhill), even though they've attended very public events with her as CEO Ellen Pao revealed, and they have narcissistic megalomaniac psychopath Jibberish (deliberately mistyping) who has trained decades on how to be the best psychopath they can be on social manipulation MMOs also heading and manipulating their "conservative" subreddit, who subscribing to also seems to be a flag within the system to begin showing you subs engineered to manipulate you with their messaging.

Plot twist: They did not build shit, the text is generated by AI, and whatever they do is still done by third country workers.

The linkedin writing format must be banned, exhausting, unreadable and way too self important. It's not a haiku write like a normal person you lunatic. Also these bots are destroying public forums, don't expect any praise from me.

Anyone that works in marketing needs to be flogged in the streets for their crimes.

This person is late to the game. Reddit has been like this for years.

In line of SEO, it makes me think, with how the fediverse works, it could end up being a search engine of its own. Including, I may add, for external contents as tracking bots are made. Quite an interesting realization.

God, I just hate the way these people fucking talk. Everything is a bulleted list and sentence fragments.

here is to hoping that lemmy never grows

Reddit is the new Facebook. Kids don't think it's cool so they avoid it. Got this first hand. It's got a big userbase so it'll take a while to topple, but they probably already know this and will squeeze everything out of it to the last drop.

It used to be a place I could turn to to get some real reviews, in sofar that it ruined google, and now I can't trust any of Reddit's content anymore because of things like the OP.

In any case, fuck spez.

More than a decade and a half later and pretentious SEO fanatics still fucking make my eyes roll.

What a self report. This guy is complicit in turning the age of information into the age of propaganda.

reddit banned me, so i upvoted this post

The turbo-hell part is that the spam comments aren't even being written for humans to see. The intention is that ChatGPT picks up the spam and incorporates it into its training.

I worked at a company that sold to doctors and the marketing team was spending most of their effort on this kind of thing. They said that nowadays when doctors want to know "what should I buy to solve X?" or "which is better A or B?" they ask ChatGPT and take its answer as factual. They said that they were very successful in generating blog articles for OpenAI to train on so that our product would be the preferred answer.

It'll happen in the Fediverse too.

This doesn't explain why Reddit has decided that I need multiple Hindi sub referrals every day.

Years and years of data regarding me, zero Hindi, zero Indian, zero interest, AND YET here's another suggested Hindi sub! Fantastic work.

But the Jesus ads sealed the deal, adios Redditto

apologies for my off topic ramble, but I feel better.