It's a Three-Card-Monte trick. At least that's the best way I can describe it. One account presents an idea or rebuttal. All the stooge accounts reply in support of it.
The marks (the real human beings) are gaslit into thinking they're crazy for not buying into the game.
It's trickier than that too. I'm sure. They don't all dog pile with the same narrative. Some will have an "okay, but" that generally agrees with the premise but isn't too suspiciously on the nose.
There's some kind of Jedi mindtrick with technology that causes people to hyper-fixate on the idea of futuristic miracle tools, and ignore the horrible real life results. If I sold hammers that magically transformed into an ineffective plastic toy hammer on 7 out of every 10 strikes, nobody would buy it. They probably would for the novelty, but not for practical use.
They killed off the old ones by timebombing the subs with strict requirements for activity. They started complying with takedowns, which nuked wide swaths of NSFW reddit. The death of gfycat was another sudden and massive removal of content.
The NSFW part of reddit didn't go away though. It's transformed into OnlyFan spam. So it's not really porn. It's redlight district ads. Hot local girls want to meet you!
Same story as always on reddit. Any woke sub that gets big enough comes intense attack by conservative trolls. Reddit corporate start acting like bastard cops with trumped up charges.
The only thing I wonder is how much of it is users and how much of it is spez, Thiel, or who ever else in reddit corporate. Probably about 50/50, I think.
I didn't look at all the comments, but this is intentional. One of the streaming platforms (probably Netflix or Amazon) originally made an algorithm that tailors posters to the individual. It's the usual A/B testing psychological bullshit designed to maximize your likelihood of watching a movie.
I doesn't matter anymore. Most numbers I've seen over the past few years have pointed to old reddit being a small percentage of users. It has got to be in the single digit percentage by now
The redesigns are considered to be cumbersome to use. Practically the interface is slow, and javascript heavy. Visually, it's considered to be ugly by old reddit users.
I think something not explicitly said often is that new reddit shifted the focus toward being more of a social media site. Profile pictures and usernames are more prominent. The social graph functions are a central focus.
There's ton of stuff I don't even know about. Apparently you can see who views your posts now or something? Or some kind of features like that.
There's all sorts of chat boxes and notifications and badges and achievements. Blinky lights flashing in my face every time I accidentally end up on the new interface.
Old reddit is a plain aggregator design. There's a simple list of posts. Each post has a comment section. That's it.
What is that anymore but an illusion when they've built an entire social media site on top of that old aggregator. Most of us old reddit users have been putting blinders on. Just because we aren't using the new interfaces with all the social networking bullshit, doesn't mean it's not there.
It's pointless anymore to try infoposting on reddit.
Take for example the soldering subreddit. The info on that sub is that you must slather everything in flux in order to solder properly. A guy posted yesterday citing 40 years of experience, saying that's not how he's done it. The comments are a mess.
Another post today, someone asks about air filtering the solder smoke. The consensus in the comments is it's not a big deal. You can literally measure the particulate matter yourself to see how bad it is. Basically an average residential room size, say 100-200 sq/ft. You'll basically hotbox yourself with smoke.
Another one that's seen less often but the false idea persists. It's that capacitors never short and burn out. I don't know how or why that false idea floats around, but I've seen it over the years. I've replaced tons of caps that spontaneously combusted. Both electrolytic and SMD caps. Sometimes they just fail and short. No other fault.
Reddit is full of bad info. It's site that relies on word of mouth and popularity contest. You do not build a knoweldge base of technical information this way. You're getting an entropic game of telephone. That's all reddit ever was and ever will be. It's flawed paradigm by default.
A paradigm that lemmy is built off. So don't you all be getting the idea that good knowledge is going to be getting sourced from here either.
Something has been lost over the past 15-20 years. It's like nobody has the mindset anymore of the world wide web era. Where's the curiosity. Where's the discovery. Where's the malleability to find something new to you and try it. Inertia has locked them into subservience.
The internet flipped upside down. It was new frontier for you to explore. Now you lay there as it spoon feeds you.
People have been quantified into units. So they can be packaged and sold as datasets. They're boxed into what the ad industry categorizes them as. This person is an Apple News user, reddit user, and Youtube watcher. That user is on Twitter and Facebook. Much more fine grained than just what platforms they use of course. They told the system what they like and the system built a reinforced box around them. And then charge them for an air tube for good measure.
We are far gone from the days where a user would be so excited to post a wall of text about using a thing that another user doesn't know about. These days the reaction is more likely to be,"Who are? Who sent you?!? What's your real motive???" Skepticism. Distrust. Paranoia.
Often these days, outright indifference. People know these platforms fuck with their minds. With public conscious. They mould the world we live in. People don't care. The world chose to be Cypher. They wanted to be plugged into the Matrix.
Though that's not really a good analogy because outside the system isn't a desolate landscape. The outside world is still normal.
Tech devoured everything as it does. Put some funding back in shop class, arts, home ec., etc. That was the issue around here going back decades.
They defunded all those things here. Back then my high school got a ton of fancy Apple computers. Those went unused except for the IT guys fucking around with them and never actually deploying them for some reason. Only the aging Windows PCs were used by students. That was the only funding being spent anymore.
The world is more than just the big tech industry. It's no wonder so many trades professions are aging out into oblivion. We listened to techbros who are converting the world into digital zombies.
Give the kids things to do again other than screen time. The rest of the entire curriculum has long ago been gutted down to pure theory. Of course they're bored to death, and searching for stimulation on their screens.
Ukraine has gotten pretty good at flying drones. Anyway, what's this post about?
I have also detected this by the way it is.
It's a Three-Card-Monte trick. At least that's the best way I can describe it. One account presents an idea or rebuttal. All the stooge accounts reply in support of it.
The marks (the real human beings) are gaslit into thinking they're crazy for not buying into the game.
It's trickier than that too. I'm sure. They don't all dog pile with the same narrative. Some will have an "okay, but" that generally agrees with the premise but isn't too suspiciously on the nose.
There's some kind of Jedi mindtrick with technology that causes people to hyper-fixate on the idea of futuristic miracle tools, and ignore the horrible real life results. If I sold hammers that magically transformed into an ineffective plastic toy hammer on 7 out of every 10 strikes, nobody would buy it. They probably would for the novelty, but not for practical use.
They killed off the old ones by timebombing the subs with strict requirements for activity. They started complying with takedowns, which nuked wide swaths of NSFW reddit. The death of gfycat was another sudden and massive removal of content.
The NSFW part of reddit didn't go away though. It's transformed into OnlyFan spam. So it's not really porn. It's redlight district ads. Hot local girls want to meet you!
If only people would be this militant about the sensor node they carry around all the time.
Threads like these remind me that lemmy world is basically just reddit all over again.
Same story as always on reddit. Any woke sub that gets big enough comes intense attack by conservative trolls. Reddit corporate start acting like bastard cops with trumped up charges.
The only thing I wonder is how much of it is users and how much of it is spez, Thiel, or who ever else in reddit corporate. Probably about 50/50, I think.
Put a laugh track. It would be a hit sketch comedy pre-2010s.
I didn't look at all the comments, but this is intentional. One of the streaming platforms (probably Netflix or Amazon) originally made an algorithm that tailors posters to the individual. It's the usual A/B testing psychological bullshit designed to maximize your likelihood of watching a movie.
> My teachers:
> Never use a word to describe itself.
Me looking up a word like rufloggy: "The state of being rufflogged".
Facebook specifically trains off Qwen and Gemini. It's not a big secret.
I doesn't matter anymore. Most numbers I've seen over the past few years have pointed to old reddit being a small percentage of users. It has got to be in the single digit percentage by now
The redesigns are considered to be cumbersome to use. Practically the interface is slow, and javascript heavy. Visually, it's considered to be ugly by old reddit users.
I think something not explicitly said often is that new reddit shifted the focus toward being more of a social media site. Profile pictures and usernames are more prominent. The social graph functions are a central focus.
There's ton of stuff I don't even know about. Apparently you can see who views your posts now or something? Or some kind of features like that.
There's all sorts of chat boxes and notifications and badges and achievements. Blinky lights flashing in my face every time I accidentally end up on the new interface.
Old reddit is a plain aggregator design. There's a simple list of posts. Each post has a comment section. That's it.
What is that anymore but an illusion when they've built an entire social media site on top of that old aggregator. Most of us old reddit users have been putting blinders on. Just because we aren't using the new interfaces with all the social networking bullshit, doesn't mean it's not there.
I remember the internet warning that Republicans would lead to the state of affairs today.
It's pointless anymore to try infoposting on reddit.
Take for example the soldering subreddit. The info on that sub is that you must slather everything in flux in order to solder properly. A guy posted yesterday citing 40 years of experience, saying that's not how he's done it. The comments are a mess.
Another post today, someone asks about air filtering the solder smoke. The consensus in the comments is it's not a big deal. You can literally measure the particulate matter yourself to see how bad it is. Basically an average residential room size, say 100-200 sq/ft. You'll basically hotbox yourself with smoke.
Another one that's seen less often but the false idea persists. It's that capacitors never short and burn out. I don't know how or why that false idea floats around, but I've seen it over the years. I've replaced tons of caps that spontaneously combusted. Both electrolytic and SMD caps. Sometimes they just fail and short. No other fault.
Reddit is full of bad info. It's site that relies on word of mouth and popularity contest. You do not build a knoweldge base of technical information this way. You're getting an entropic game of telephone. That's all reddit ever was and ever will be. It's flawed paradigm by default.
A paradigm that lemmy is built off. So don't you all be getting the idea that good knowledge is going to be getting sourced from here either.
Those regular White House COVID press conferences were like a fever dream.
Something has been lost over the past 15-20 years. It's like nobody has the mindset anymore of the world wide web era. Where's the curiosity. Where's the discovery. Where's the malleability to find something new to you and try it. Inertia has locked them into subservience.
The internet flipped upside down. It was new frontier for you to explore. Now you lay there as it spoon feeds you.
People have been quantified into units. So they can be packaged and sold as datasets. They're boxed into what the ad industry categorizes them as. This person is an Apple News user, reddit user, and Youtube watcher. That user is on Twitter and Facebook. Much more fine grained than just what platforms they use of course. They told the system what they like and the system built a reinforced box around them. And then charge them for an air tube for good measure.
We are far gone from the days where a user would be so excited to post a wall of text about using a thing that another user doesn't know about. These days the reaction is more likely to be,"Who are? Who sent you?!? What's your real motive???" Skepticism. Distrust. Paranoia.
Often these days, outright indifference. People know these platforms fuck with their minds. With public conscious. They mould the world we live in. People don't care. The world chose to be Cypher. They wanted to be plugged into the Matrix.
Though that's not really a good analogy because outside the system isn't a desolate landscape. The outside world is still normal.
Your qualifiers are obtuse.
Tech devoured everything as it does. Put some funding back in shop class, arts, home ec., etc. That was the issue around here going back decades.
They defunded all those things here. Back then my high school got a ton of fancy Apple computers. Those went unused except for the IT guys fucking around with them and never actually deploying them for some reason. Only the aging Windows PCs were used by students. That was the only funding being spent anymore.
The world is more than just the big tech industry. It's no wonder so many trades professions are aging out into oblivion. We listened to techbros who are converting the world into digital zombies.
Give the kids things to do again other than screen time. The rest of the entire curriculum has long ago been gutted down to pure theory. Of course they're bored to death, and searching for stimulation on their screens.
There's nothing the internet loves more than a big spectacle. You're all proving his point.