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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] FabricatorGeneralHeadAss@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well Karma ain’t a thing here so there’s not that much reason for bots to exist. Where on Reddit people make certain karma bots to sell. So here! Have a updoot. 👍

[–] LemmyBe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the upvote, and back at you. I’m thinking bots would be used to change discourse for whatever purposes.

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[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy succeeded in what SomethingAwful is doing for $10.

[–] wtry@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

There's a lot less of us, we can't lose anyone.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You have a lovely bum

[–] noodle@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

It depends where you go, surely?

I've met a fair number of numpties on Reddit but I've never had anyone tell me neckbeards are an oppressed group until I came to Lemmy 😂

Jokes aside, it's easy to avoid toxic people on here since they usually announce themselves loudly. It's easy to block users, communities, or even servers if you don't want to see something.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’ll admit, I’ve had far better experiences here than I have on Reddit; Lemmings aren’t as prone to argue on nonsensical topics as Redditors are.

That being said, there are still more than a few nasties here.

[–] AngryBear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Im too new to tell if Lemmy is more left or right leaning or somewhere in the middle. But Reddit is extreme left wing, you can’t even make a (bad) joke without getting banned.

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a conspiracy theory about Reddit and social media in general:

I think its algorithm not only puts up links but users and their comments in their view that are more likely to piss you off, and they measure this based on observing your post and comment history. I believe they categorize users by political affiliation and moral outlook by this method, and use that info to purposefully expose you to people who will cause you conflict to drive up engagement and therefore ad dollars.

I believe they also use chat bots to argue with people for that purpose.

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[–] rbm4444@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe on mainstream social media rude comments overhang the good ones, not by quantity, but due to the amount of dislikes, big techs strategies of evidence to keep the users engagement, probably dislike a comment is worst then just ignore it. Note I'm not saying that it happens on Lemmy. I think it should be interesting a mechanism that put at the end of the thread the most disliked comments.

[–] ExaptationStation@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you!

You look fabulous today by the way, have an upvote!

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