Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Reddit is getting increasingly wonky. Picked up a ban for calling a racist a racist. I’m being hateful. Um, okay?
Don’t call out that, cus that’s just as hateful as hate! /s
Or something like that I presume.
It’s even tolerance paradox shit (which only exists if you misunderstand what tolerance is), it’s full blown normalization of biggoted behavior.
It is frustrating for sure. I do appreciate the higher signal to noise ratio in the fediverse and also that it is decentralized, I think it makes for a better experience overall.
Cheers to you. :)
Hello again, I see we’re both annoyed by the same person still
Yeah this shit is getting out of hand.
Already blocked the ass
What’s the issue if you can just block them and not have to deal with them?
The principle. Repost bots ruined Reddit and we don’t want them here
Time2lose is almost definitely u/sanitation after he got torn apart in his “everyone who doesn’t like my repost bot is wrong” post. They’re using the same software that trunctates post titles. They’re both clearly Russian and have made some anti-ukraine comments.
And not to get all conspiratorial but it is a biiit suspicious that a Russian bot is spamming tabloids to the US news communities when we’re approaching an important election. At the very least, it’s annoying as fuck.
I don’t think the user you’re talking about in the top post is the same, though. Different posting styles, totally different content. I also don’t think it’s the same person as the (thankfully dead) SteamAndEpic account, either, though that one was also Russian. Just a lazy spammer this time.
Wholly agreed with your conclusion, though.
Probably my least favorite Lemmy user of all time. He truly believes he’s not making this place worse.
They admit to running a bunch of ai powered accounts.
Follow-up thought: are they the same as the account posting “space news”? Equally dull content bot that usually doesn’t link sources
They definitely are, I just don’t think oldmanalex is one of them. I could be wrong! I think all repost bots should get banned regardless
Check out the shitpost community on lemmy.today and let me know what you think.
I take it back, I saw them say Reddit agent lmao
I don’t t know if I had seen them comment before
They’re spending money on this pollution? What a loser
It almost certainly is, Both Sanitation and Time2lose use the term “reddit agent” when people point out the automated reposts.
Wish they’d get IP banned. The second account exists to circumvent the community bans of the first
And then they get mirrored to fediverse via bots…
But in the fediverse, you can just block the repost bots. Do it. It becomes so much better.
Of course, but the problem is that new users come here, see a sea of repost bots, and then conclude that its a ghost town.
There is a report button, I encourage people to use it.
He’s skating by on it being “technically allowed”. Also created his own comm to do it after getting shouted out of most places. And he’s making new alts every week. It’s going to take having instance owners on board with spacing the jackass
What’s a repost bot?
Self-explanatory.
Whats a self?
ooh! it’s been a while since I got to do a username checks out
A self is what asks the self, what are you?
Brother, who are thou?
It’s like William Shakespear and Hulk Hogan had a word baby, that grew up into that question.
Better men than me have spent lifetimes trying to answer that.
Yeah I know what job it does I’m more asking why does a bot the repost even exists (yes to repost) Idk just never seen a repost bot before just crazy how out of handle everything on the internet is now days (is there anything we can do) or do we just sit and watch the world burn??
Some bots were put into place when Lemmy started getting lots more traffic to try and help fill content, since not having a full Fediverse to jump to from Reddit was off putting to some. An attempt at retaining users, basically. What I don’t like about some of them is how they’ll dump the link as if it’s content, but it’s only a link back to Reddit, and not nearly the same as someone actually posting something here and discussing it. They still can spark something, if people don’t realize it’s just a bot. Don’t know what ratio posting is these days of bot vs actual person, or even if you could tell a lot of them apart sometimes.
it got really aggressive on reddit as of late, usually in different usernames, but exact same titles verbatim. you would see the same post 4+times.
Just takes the top of Reddit and reposts it here.
A bot that reposts.
I find it cathartic. Anybody still using Reddit is basically choosing this self inflicted harm.
I wish I could block it so people wanting thoughtless content could mindlessly upvote this content and the rest of us could enjoy this platform for what it is.
It’s not a bot reposting on reddit, it’s a bot reposting things from reddit to the fediverse.
Ah lol, my bad. Yeah I haven’t seen much of it but most of the sloppers and slopper instances have me blocked so maybe thats why. Or maybe nobody on my instance follows to any of the affected feeds.
Lucky.
They’re using the ignorance defense.
If they don’t use reddit how do they know is a repost?
(The answer is a little intelligence and a bit of common sense).
Nah i thought I was looking at a picture of reddit for a moment.
If they don’t use reddit how do they know is a repost?
Why would they care? If it’s useful stuff getting posted that’s okay. If it’s just a spammer flooding everything with low quality stuff treat them accordingly. The fact that the same posts exist on reddit is entirely irrelevant.
Because the culture is different and the crossposts are indiscriminate. A day ago he crossposted a meme about a woman being raped by her doctor after her credit card was declined, so she couldnt afford care.
Also because its disingenuous to crosspost things like “I had this experience!” without labeling it and have people engage with you earnestly because theyre here to be social, not knowing the title of the post is just an outright lie. That doesnt sit well to a lot of people and makes this space feel less human and sincere- one of the most meaningful attributes of the fediverse if you ask me.
The cultures of Lemmy and Reddit are 100% identical, right down to the weirdly entitled and aggressive commenters
Given that I find the culture of reddit miserable and the culture of the threadiverse generally much more human, social, and pleasant (albeit with the added flavor of the specific social dysfunction of chronically online leftists) I can’t say I agree
And if the implication of your comment (totally fine if its not and you mean the point more broadly, subtext is hard over the internet) is that I’m being weirdly entitled and aggressive because I take issue with jokes about being raped because you can’t afford medical care, I think that reflects a lot more poorly on you than on any aggressive or entitled vibes I may be giving
Does blocking not work? I’m not the biggest fan of repost bots myself, but they exist for a specific purpose. There are times when you have to take efforts to curate your own experience, also.
Not when they create new accounts constantly.
Oh yeah, no, that shouldn’t happen.
Are they? I’ve been seeing that account posting for quite a while.
It’s only a month old.
Feels more like 5 weeks.
I mean… 1 or 2 new accounts to block every month or so is hardly onerous. It’s not like there’s a new one every day. I don’t get the vocal hate.
Right, but the new-person-experience will royally suck because they don’t come pre-blocked. I actively try not to block accounts, to keep the view as default as possible.
the new-person-experience will royally suck because they don’t come pre-blocked
Doesn’t that assume that the new person will hate said content? I’m not taking that as a given myself, personally.
Fair point, but if there’s no engagement on those posts, it’s just a repost site like all the others, not a community.
They actively discourage new users, and engagement.
Yeah, that’s true. Thinking about it more ‘just block them’ only really works if they aren’t most of the platform. I make most of my posts to encourage discussion, and I don’t see repost bots doing much to that end.
Does blocking not work? I’m not the biggest fan of repost bots myself, but they exist for a specific purpose (however tenuous their ability to achieve it may be.)
You already posted a very similar comment to this.
sorry, my page reloaded while editing and I assumed it hadn’t sent.
It’s okay just promise you won’t do it again.
I promise 🙏 forgive me?
Yes but I won’t forget.
Now have you tagged as “elephant”.
How did you know my penis was 5 to 6.5 feet long?
<3
Forget, but never forgive.
Yep. I see this is the new feed.
It’s stupid just reposting 100% from another place. If I wanted that, I’d just go there.
I do like that posters who seem ro manually post filter the stuff from other sites which in my opinion increases the average quality of posts. Reddit is a tidal wave with a few gems. The fediverse is mostly the gems, like using cheesecloth in a strainer.
You’d go to reddit?
I would if I wanted to, but I don’t so I won’t.
Thank you SMCF for calling them out so I can tag them and move on
They’ll make two new accounts by next week so good luck.
Oh, I see I cut the head off of a Hydra.
So the solution is to subscribe to good communities or block bad ones.
The solution is for all these people complaining to post new, original content every day and give lots of engagement with each one. Since that takes a shit ton of effort and most people work and have lives outside of the internet, they’re unwilling to do that because it would be a full time job, but they’ll still complain about it and demand that someone else fix it for them.
I don’t expect it from everyone every day. You just need a few people at a time.
Better ways to search for or pay attention to niche communities might help too. Scaled seems like its supposed to attempt to give them more focus but I don’t think it works very well when I have tried it. Problem is if I sub to 50 tiny communities and 1 popular one, my subscribed feed is dominated by the popular one and anything else will be drowned out.
The knights of new were what made reddit good, where are they
I’m out here in New/ 1hr / all fighting for my fucking life
🫡
We’re still here, but! do we have good taste?
Can’t wait for this to be reposted by the bots.
