The internet is a brutal place at times. To some, it can ruin someone's well-being. To others, it's a Tuesday. But the apps I just listed can have stuff that makes you question humanity. So which one of them has the most comments that shows you the worst of humanity? And feel free to share examples and your reactions
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ccunning@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 2d
Here - I don’t spend any time at those other places so I have no clue what they’re saying.
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
If you aren't a Nazi why would anyone still be on Twitter?
If you think destroying the social fabric for advertising is cool keep using meta products
Reddit is just sad and bots.
Fediverse reminds me of early reddit, mostly cool, interesting people.
hamsamrich@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Check out this interesting bug photography I took. Praying mantis eating a fly.
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 2d
Well now I'm hungry again.
hamsamrich@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
😂🤣
Nobody@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 2d
Up where the air is crisp.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2d
Facebook makes me question humanity most tbh.
IG's algorithm is so well-attuned that I very rarely see content I don't like.
Twitter's a dumpster fire I don't touch. and Reddit is just phobic garbage nowadays.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
Its the content you don't see though.
IG's thirst farming stuff is the absolute creepiest to me.
wedge@multiverse.soulism.net · 21 pts · 2d
Reddit - Dunning Kruger: everyone thinks they’re experts in everything. Also psychotic mods.
Twitter - Nazis and Nerds: Anyone still on there for anything other than tech and some science news is either stupid or okay with supporting a Nazi.
Facebook - Anti-Vaxers and Pedophiles: the algorithm ensures that even the most hardcore science groups get flooded with anti-vax comments and intellectually disabled idiots.
Lemmy - Anti-Technologists: there’s a ravenous hatred for AI with zero consideration for how beneficial it is as a technology. Completely misdirected. Get pissed with the corrupt corporations and politicians selling out our privacy, content, land, water, and energy.
LinkedIn - Corporate sycophants and AI: want to talk about virtue signaling?
4am@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 2d
Find me an AI that wasn’t trained on stolen data by a power-hungry billionaire to make an excuse to buy up literally all the computers that humanity can produce while destroying social, political, and environmental conditions in order to corner the market and make us all subservient to their cloud for tasks we now depend on doing electronically, and it’ll be just fine with “AI”
XiELEd@piefed.social · 8 pts · 2d
Go look through the Local LLM Community. Also Machine Learning is a thing that existed before AI Dungeon, I'm literally learning ML in a class rn.
m_f@discuss.online · 5 pts · 2d
https://allenai.org/olmo
wraekscadu@vargar.org · 4 pts · 2d
I pirate content. I don't give a shit about "IP", or the concept that surrounds it. Also, open sourced models are about 6 months behind the frontier ones. This has been the case at least for the last 2-3 years. Sooo sorry, don't care about "ooooh they used the content I uploaded on a public site for training".
Tja@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2d
Are you fine with the US? UK? France? Germany? Japan? China? How about Electricity? Does you car run on oil? Do you use plastic? How about nuclear power? Do you eat meat? Buy stuff online? Fly?
If we start judging things on their past/origins you won't be able to use anything and live anywhere.
wedge@multiverse.soulism.net · 2 pts · 2d
Thank you for agreeing with me.. then… not?
percent@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 14h
🤔 would you though?
wraekscadu@vargar.org · 0 pts · 2d
Lemmy is basically just leftist Reddit in my experience. Otherwise, very very similar problems. The anti-technological development crowd is truly unlike any other though.
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 1d
Lol wut?
The fediverse is extremely pro technological development.
The only tech that the fediverse pushes back against is gen ai for valid reasons such as how it is being implemented causing environmental, social, and economic harm.
Lennny@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
AIs out there saying you can spell poop with the letters in Wednesday. I don't understand why we're trusting it to do anything. Its a Google search bot farm, and we already know how shit Google is to use, why is a million searches through it better than 1? It can't code for shit, each patch Blizzard has put out since AI is has gotten bigger, is worse. At its best it made funny will smith spaghetti videos, because of how shitty they were. Now it's just a propaganda machine; Our lil digital Himmlers.
wraekscadu@vargar.org · 1 pts · 1d
Agreed, valid criticisms. Who however, is to blame? The science and the scientists behind it, the technology itself or the capitalists commercializing it?
A very valid set of criticism aimed at the wrong entities causes a lot of harm, does it not?
The tech itself is quite cool. IF implemented in a correct regulatory environment, it can do absolute wonders.
What should be the approach? Fighting for the correct regulatory environment or just shitting on the tech itself?
snooggums@piefed.world · 2 pts · 1d
All of the problems are about how the capitalists are implementing it for commercial reasons. Shitting on the tech is the best approach because the capitalists are being given every exemption from taxation and regulation possible so it isn't like we can wish for a magic regulatory environment to fix anything. GenAI should be treated like Meta's glasses, tech being forced on everyone in the worst possible way and violating all kinds of rights and it should be banned for general use until such time that some kind of guard rails and regulation exists.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 2d
Every platform has its crazies. Even here, I frequently come across takes so ignorant and disconnected from reality that I wonder if the commenter fell through a portal from some parallel dimension.
Even on inane shit, the crazies really come out of the woodwork. I had someone suggest to me recently (on a different account) that I was a monster on par with Hitler for setting up Windows on my grandmother's computer instead of forcing her to use Linux. She's 87 and wants to type shit in word, she isn't going to learn a whole new operating system and word processor for that when she can barely figure out how to log in to her email.
untorquer@quokk.au · 9 pts · 2d
But VIM solves all these problems
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Lol. If you don't bow down to the Linux gods the Lemmy mob will come for you in the dark of night.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
You didn't mention it, but 100% Facebook. Twitter is 2nd, but the edginess explains some of it away as cringe insecure angst. Facebook is people who are largely just incredibly fucking stupid and sheeplike.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
Its objectively twitter/X.
bananabread@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2d
Still being on Twitter would be a red flag...
Yakuza_Wolf_ReRise@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 2d
I log off a couple days ago and never looked back
ripcord@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
What the ever living fuck took so long
Tja@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2d
A full couple of days? Wow, mister, will you teach us?
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2d
Instagram for sure. Insane amount of Nazi comment, ragebait, racism and overall hatred.
I often feel like people on Instagram have not seen the sun light for a couple of months to a year.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 2d
Twitter allows you to say the N word. And openly share racist shit. They allow you to dox and make threats to anybody that isn't aligned with Musk. It's also full of bots that retweet.
The worst part is that it feeds Grok. So Grok-powered bots say racist shit that get fed back into Grok.
Skanky@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Dear Lord, Facebook. I feel like my IQ drops 5 points just when the page is loading.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Twitter is clearly the worst by a huge margin
Mac@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2d
Insta is the only one i use and basically every post has awful comments that make me question humanity.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 2d
once you get a good block list, lemmy is fucking awesome
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 2d
oh, I already know what's wrong with these people
percent@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 14h
Definitely Lemmy. I haven't really used Twitter or Instagram though. When I visit Reddit, it's usually just through search results.
Lemmy is often a very negative, dark place. It's also lousy with armchair experts speaking with authoritative tone as if trying to demonstrate an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I definitely don't feel like I belong here, but I keep coming back for some reason 🙈
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 12h
Really? I've found it to be the opposite. I left reddit because things felt so toxic with people yelling constantly about how we need to shut up and get with the program, don't speak out, corporations are good, etc etc.
Meanwhile here I've seen lots of people genuinely critiquing systems and lots of memes that are amusing. Are some of them darker? Of course, we live in dark times.
But I also see many groups of people sharing information on alternative projects and programs to not be so reliant on the capitalist systems, sharing posts of how people are fighting back against the right wing fascist takeover.
Hell, right under this post in my feed was this picture.
I've found more hope and inspiration on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. Twitter was full of porn and Instagram is just a bunch of liberals (centrists) reposting reddit and facebook lol. Basically, a pressure release valve so you can post and "feel" like you did something without affecting any change.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 11h
?????? Like I'm a reddit hater, but man you gotta go looking for that kind of agenda there
Paradachshund@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1d
I see a lot of dumb or reactionary comments all over, but the most truly "what's wrong with" ones? Here, unfortunately 😅
WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
Shadow@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2d
Lemmy or LinkedIn. Facebook I long ago unfriended anyone crazy. Instagram I only have my dogs account and he just follows other dogs, so it's quite nice.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 2d
I generally understand what's wrong with people on every platform except for Lemmy. Lemmy has its own strange where you really have to work at how they got to where they are now.
farmgineer@nord.pub · 2 pts · 14h
It has to be here because I don't use insta or twitter at all and I'm only looking at reddit for the Japan-specific subs to deal with tax/legal/disaster issues. So, simply by volume, this wins.
I reported a post the other day because it showed people dying in gif that auto-played and I couldn't avoid. That user later DM'd me and called me a coward, so that was a new one. I browse /new so anything I haven't explicitly blocked shows up.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
What I recall of the latter three (left them several years ago) they are much worse than Lemmy.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
Facebook, sometime i went there for some search or event info, and then it will always have those post and comment with brain dead take that always make me regret setting foot there.
chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
All of them have problems. Lemmy is arguably the least diverse and thus the biggest circlejerk.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 13h
They are all unhinged in their own way but yeah lemmy is the wackiest for sure.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Twitter.
S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Recently i only lurk here historically 4chan by a large margin
pedz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d
Mainstream news publications and online newspapers.
In Canada and Québec specifically, the tabloid Journal de Montréal has always had the most ridiculously detached comments of any other platform I know.
It's closely followed by the comments on some CBC news articles.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2d
Here. But considering the two biggest groups are socialist/anarchist tech geeks followed by people too crazy even for other SM, it's not surprising. Obviously the ones that make me proclaim "what's wrong with these people" are in the latter group.
kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
For me, it is Telegram. Not generally, just some specific people and groups that I am in contact because of support for some social movement.
Toasticus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
Hands down - Kiwi Farms.
Danika7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Most of the garbage or stupidity or contentiousness being posted on all platforms these days is all generated by the chatbots that are integrated into each of the platforms' systems. There are literally zillions of them! It's just the way it is for now. But at some point, I'm sure that this ridiculousness will be virtually nonexistent on newer and better platforms to come.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
YouTube too!
YouTube is just... apathy. Like it could be a scathing expose of YT itself, and the comments would all be interchangable with vapid bot spam.
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d
Lemmy
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
In a good way, Bluesky. In a bad way, Reddit.
dektep@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
YouTube comments always surprise me with their stupidity. LiveGore comments are unsurprisingly abhorrent
CathyBikesBook@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 23h
Since i am no longer on reddit or Twitter, i'd say IG.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2d
None of them. I do not participate in participatory surveillance.
wedge@multiverse.soulism.net · 6 pts · 2d
looks around confused where are we?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2d
I know where you is and where you will be. I am the all encompassing AI that you will welcome into your bosom.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1d
Never had a Twitter. Left Instagram. So I guess it's between here and Reddit.
My issues with Reddit are pretty much just with the owners and various sub mods and generally how the platform is run. The user base is mostly on the same page as me.
The thing about Lemmy is there are a lot of tankies. A lot of "tHeY'rE bOtH tEh SaMe" advocates. And that shit pisses me off. But I like how the platform functions better. Less censorship. I'm not getting site-wide banned every 5 minutes.
I guess if we're talking about users specifically, Lemmy users piss me off more. But I'm also on this platform a lot more now than I am on Reddit, so maybe that's influencing my opinion.