• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    1 year ago

    Ok so it isn’t just me? I can’t tell if it’s just maybe people from fledgling online countries all trying to simulate what they think the Internet is like cause they are excited to finally be part of it or just literal bots trained to sound like humans to pad numbers.

    Upvotes still seem like bot controlled with massive variances in the same subreddit from the ones that feel like ads to posts that are clearly human generated.

    There is a weird vibe over there. Like a city full of plastic people.

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      1 year ago

      There is a weird vibe over there. Like a city full of plastic people.

      Perfect summary.

      To be clear as well I’ve been on reddit 10+ years. It’s “different” now. Uncanny valley. I’m trying to be objective. I don’t have near the vitreol of many people here on lemmy. I’m actually fairly indifferent outside of them running their site into the ground.

      Also worth mentioning it’s more visible in large subs. My city sub is real ppl. I got the weird vibe from a top 10 sub.

    • CheatMageLVL99@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That describes what Reddit feels like currently pretty accurately. Was it like this since that api shutdown or before then? Because as a long time user it’s definitely gone downhill in terms of healthy engagement.