And nobody seems to bother (or highlight it which would be the job of the commenter)

I just browsed the feed for 20 mins after a month off being sober and don’t miss the disguised instagram feed at all - short videos, meme comments, no old forum experience whatsoever. But thankfully we have that on Lemmy now, so Lemmy try that :)

Btw I didnt even read more than 5 comments total… heres examples:

EDIT: look at how many “people” reply to that stuff - what a sheit show

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    21·
    23 days ago

    Reddit is completely unusable outside of old.reddit with RES and sticking to niche subs. I only ever use it when I’m extraordinarily bored and out of lemmy content.

    • 4grams@awful.systemsEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      I hate going there these days. I’m not sure if it was a frog boil or what but the site now is a shadow of the one I left during the big mod exodus. It’s terrible now, so much less info, user base has devolved, riddled with ads.

      I imagine if I was still there all the crap would feel normal but having left, every time I visit now and see what huge changes have been made. Every time i visit the quality of the site has tanked even more.

    • Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.alEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      Yep, I go for a couple of niche things every few days. That’s it. It’s like fucking Facebook now and that is BAD

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    16·
    23 days ago

    Reddit… Let’s not go there, 'tis a silly place.

    The commenters on average feel more real on Lemmy, so i’ve been here 2 years plus and hardly needed to look back.

    • Lady Butterfly @lazysoci.alEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      I know what you mean, they just ring true. There’s far less nastiness as well, far fewer people are looking for a fight

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      19·
      23 days ago

      Bulleted lists, a weird positive tone, unnecessarily professional, a summary or “but you should check with an authority figure” sentence at the end

      • IndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
        16·
        23 days ago

        a weird positive tone
        Oh

        unnecessarily professional
        Oh no

        a summary or “but you should check with an authority figure” Oh god no

        Bulleted lists
        Well, I’m often 3 for 4 on the AI checklist

        • Basic Glitch@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          23 days ago

          Yeah, I kinda was feeling the same way. I also do the numbering and bullet points thing too bc it helps me organize what I’m trying to say as I type, and I prefer it in general when I read longer walls of text bc it helps me stay focused.

          Reddit and most of the internet has definitely become just one big hub for advertising, but it’s also led to some cases where I’ve genuinely been left unable to tell If I was talking with a bot, a troll, or even just a human without an agenda who was making an argument in a bot/troll like way to prove their point.

          There used to be times where I would start typing something like “what are you 15?” then realize, yeah they probably are 15 so why tf are you arguing with this person? Time to log off.

          Now it’s like a possibility of: 15 year old/edeglord, a troll farm paid by a foreign government/ or possibly even my own government, advanced bot, or someone who just has a similar style of writing.

          There have definitely been times where it’s left me thinking way too much about the deeper meaning of being human, and the question of free will. That is usually my cue these days that it’s time to log off and touch grass.

      • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
        5·
        23 days ago

        Just add “this is medical advice specifically catered to you” at the end of all messages and you’re safe. Well at least until this becomes the norm and malicious bots get manually adapted to add that too…

        This is so frustrating to think about. Maybe we need to start encrypting messages and hand the keys to small communities physically only…

      • SCmSTREnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        Shhhh stop giving it away. Pretty soon we’re gonna have that garbage here. We probably do and don’t even know it. When bots have become actually convincing… Ugh. The world is shit and I hate it

        • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nl
          5·
          23 days ago

          I see you dislike the way things are going currently. When talking about AI, it is important to note that it also has many exciting positive uses:

          • It can easily recognise spots indicative of cancer.
          • It makes desk workers more productive.
          • It may be used to lessen the burden of parents raising their children.
          • It may promote safety by helping in recognising acts of disorder.

          Please remember to always keep an open mind towards the future of AI.

          • SCmSTREnglish
            2·
            23 days ago

            AI is not inherently the problem. It is us that are the problem. But for now, the actions that an overwhelming majority chose to use AI for are just actions.

            Like war. War is not inherently evil or bad. It can be used for good. But an overwhelming majority of the time is either used for evil or ends up that way.

            Which is why I generally don’t like AI.

            Use AI to help people fight the systems that are ruining society (ie capitalism, land lords, elon musk, inequality in society, scarcity, and a bad future), don’t MAKE that bad future happen. Too many people don’t think about the effects of their actions or inventions.

            Recognizing cancer: takes away the human variable, and potentially leaves us unable to recognize that. It isn’t assuredly a negative, but also has massive socioeconomic implications that can render us victim to corporations with technology, amplifying an already existing terrible power imbalance in the healthcare realm.

            Make workers more productive: fuck, bro. Do I even have to point out why raising the bar on that could be exacerbating a problem in society? Are you stupid?

            Lessening parent burdens: sounds great, but now you have even more fundamental existence tasks relying on companies and tech. In society, we’re still trying to get everybody on the same page just for eating, let alone your naive optimism. Why not use AI to make healthcare better and more accessible for everybody? Or to eliminate fascism or to educate people on baseline infrastructure? Or even to figure out how to educate humans in all of our humanities access STEM knowledge really EFFICIENTLY?

            And your last one “promote safety by helping recognize acts of disorder”.

            …At this point, I can’t tell if this is a troll or you really are a bad person. Because HUMANS, who are much smarter and complex than AI are, are in power and are fucking things up. Now, you want to take that same paper-thin shitty philosophical grasp of our reality and apply it to an algorithm that identifies people? That sounds like a full on dystopia to me, complete with no privacy and stagnated society because of non evolving power dynamics and oppression.

            I have an open mind about AI. Yours seems awfully closed to the reality and any responsibility you may bear by even promoting it to people who haven’t considered risks or the realities of how it is or wants to be used.

            I’m all for doing good with it, but if you don’t have rocks for brains, you know that unless we progress as a society ahead or at least with AI, keeping social guardrails on it, and then ALSO considering and exercising extreme caution when inevitably creating A NEW FORM OF LIFE, then it’s overwhelmingly unethical, nearly evil.