It’s more important than ever to check into the things you see on the internet that make you feel things, both good and bad. AI and bots have been poking around Lemmy a little, I expect it will get worse, it’s a spreading infection. For now though, it’s still a place with a lot of humans looking for connection.
Reddit is beyond help, I had a 12-year account there, I did make a lot of posts, in the early days I actually had contests with other “power users” to see how many gold awards we could collect, I was a moderator of several communities, some quite large. All that got flushed when an admin flipped a switch because they sided with some toxic child over someone without a single mark or warning, and honestly I didn’t care that much, I was just puzzled why they are purging their most dedicated users so indiscriminately, that’s when I peeled back the surface and saw how bad the AI/bot problem was, as well as the credible conspiracy that the site is being developed in association with some government agencies as a psy-op to control or at least steer social narratives. (Check out the rabbit-hole of Eglin Air Force Base sometime.)
I still have accounts there, I have accounts all over every social media platform for the purpose of pushing back on toxic, hateful narratives, for antagonizing users to break narrative controls, and to have my finger on the pulse of both sides of the major issues.
Part of what I do on Lemmy is antagonize the “sheltered” users here who are creating their own bubble worlds, which are incredibly damaging to society. I don’t post memes or posts because I don’t care about attention or points anymore, I fully expect I’ll be banned at some point because that seems to be our default coping strategy in the 2020’s for dealing with people who make you uncomfortable.
But I often get stuck just trying to share emotional and social pointers with people. A lot of people need a lot of help in life, and I’ve been through so much shit for so long, I feel like I have to DO something with it all before all my experiences return to entropy.
Don’t let this go to your head, but as I read the first comment you left me and others I read from your profile, I thought, this person was a star at Reddit and left when everyone else did. I’m glad you’ve embraced your mission.
I’ll say, I don’t share stuff for popularity — I share it because I want others to know about it or I want to know if they agree or disagree with it.
I’m a big fan of typewriters and I think sometimes about starting an r/typewriters here… that and r/idiocracy are what i miss most from Reddit.
It’s more important than ever to check into the things you see on the internet that make you feel things, both good and bad. AI and bots have been poking around Lemmy a little, I expect it will get worse, it’s a spreading infection. For now though, it’s still a place with a lot of humans looking for connection.
Reddit is beyond help, I had a 12-year account there, I did make a lot of posts, in the early days I actually had contests with other “power users” to see how many gold awards we could collect, I was a moderator of several communities, some quite large. All that got flushed when an admin flipped a switch because they sided with some toxic child over someone without a single mark or warning, and honestly I didn’t care that much, I was just puzzled why they are purging their most dedicated users so indiscriminately, that’s when I peeled back the surface and saw how bad the AI/bot problem was, as well as the credible conspiracy that the site is being developed in association with some government agencies as a psy-op to control or at least steer social narratives. (Check out the rabbit-hole of Eglin Air Force Base sometime.)
I still have accounts there, I have accounts all over every social media platform for the purpose of pushing back on toxic, hateful narratives, for antagonizing users to break narrative controls, and to have my finger on the pulse of both sides of the major issues.
Part of what I do on Lemmy is antagonize the “sheltered” users here who are creating their own bubble worlds, which are incredibly damaging to society. I don’t post memes or posts because I don’t care about attention or points anymore, I fully expect I’ll be banned at some point because that seems to be our default coping strategy in the 2020’s for dealing with people who make you uncomfortable.
But I often get stuck just trying to share emotional and social pointers with people. A lot of people need a lot of help in life, and I’ve been through so much shit for so long, I feel like I have to DO something with it all before all my experiences return to entropy.
Don’t let this go to your head, but as I read the first comment you left me and others I read from your profile, I thought, this person was a star at Reddit and left when everyone else did. I’m glad you’ve embraced your mission.
I’ll say, I don’t share stuff for popularity — I share it because I want others to know about it or I want to know if they agree or disagree with it.
I’m a big fan of typewriters and I think sometimes about starting an r/typewriters here… that and r/idiocracy are what i miss most from Reddit.