For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider.

Love. This. Comment.

This have to be bot.

Edit: thanks for the gold, stranger!

Edit2: ohh god i hate you guys.

That was cringe but I think a better reason NOT to return to reddit is the fact that they just sold out their users to an AI company that hasn't even been named.

I think the fewer number of people, compared to reddit, on Lemmy combined with the fact that it's not nearly as well known, plays a huge advantage to the quality of the comments. Not that there aren't people like that here either, but I feel like the more popular a platform, is, the more it gets filled, proportionally, with people trying to make witty, shitty, pointless remarks that are often clickkbaity and avoid actual discussion, all in the interest of just getting more imaginary points.

Also the process of "enshitification" (not a term I made up, look it up if you hadn't heard of it) has already started taking place on reddit due to its popularity.

All I see is cherry picking random dumb comment thread and trying to spin it as if it defines the whole use base / experience and thinking Lemmy is used by the most sophisticated intellectuals.

Only the best, the finest human-generated datasets. For the discerning AI trainer.

Welcome to Burger King! Can I take your order?

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Can I get a large-

Hell yeah!

-a large Whopper meal with-

Love. This. Order.

-with a side of barbecue sa-

this needs to be on a mug!

Heavy internal sigh

Sauce.

I approve, perfectly stated. That'll be $98.42, NTA, please pull around to the window to pay and have a yeet day!

It’s actually kind of crazy how like… stupid Reddit got over the past 2 years.

Like don’t get me wrong Lemmy isn’t exactly an intellectual powerhouse either, but especially on the front page of Reddit it truly feels like you’ve gathered a few thousand of the dumbest people ever and made them high five. Browsing the science and dataisbeautiful subs is insane

Surprised the top reply wasn't "this"

Fully believe a lot of these are bots. I refuse to believe that humans act like this at that magnitude

We're no better here. Lemmy has its own brand of cringe.

I bet they are all bots

Love. This. Post.

I have gone back a while ago. Some subs are bad but most I frequent are the same as before. I now use lemmy on my phone and reddit on the PC. At least on reddit the Linux cult doesnt try to convert you everytime you say the word windows.

Play Reddit games, win Reddit prizes.

Give it some time, Lemmy will get there eventually.

These cannot be the comments of real people.

Not much worse than people constantly evangelizing Linux, whining about cars, and all the other Lemmyisms that have seeped between instances.

Wow you just won the internet for today. 🤓

Edit: Wow this post blew up, thanks for all the upvotes!

What I find weird, is why people would comment that kind of worthless stuff when they could just give an upvote. It doesn't add anything to the discussion. It is just worthless fluff.

Oh God

Were we that cringy?

I just assume everybody is 12 years old. It's the only way to explain most of the behaviors I see.

Hell yeah! This just became my favorite saying.

I could probably find something similar on Lemmy. The fixation on Reddit is annoying when people could just use Lemmy and forget about Reddit.

My fellow le gentlesirs, does the narwhal bacon at midnight?

lol, upvote if you understood the reference!

Also, the degree of banning now is at another level. My friend got banned site wide for three days because she used the word moron to describe a mail carried that fucked up real bad. I guess she doesn't spend much time on reddit so she wasn't aware what a shithole that place became

Without context this means nothing.

Pretty sure we cam cherry pick dumb comments from various lemmy instances and do the same thing

I left in the big exodus and never considered going back. There's really only one community (r/Fantasy, because so many actual authors regularly post) I am really missing, but life continues without it.

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it’s cringe but equaly cringy is posting it to here and the comments pretending you couldn’t find a dozen similar examples on lemmy lol, like the demographic is not that different.

heaven forbid some cringey individuals spread some positive energy online! they should be more toxic and debate lord-ey with every comment.

reddit always had an incredible individuality, not-like-other-girls complex and it’s truly wonderful to see that that mindset has immediately migrated here. never change, reddit circlejerk brainrot, my love. 😍

I see the hive mind is hard at work.

Reddit is becoming the Facebook version of 4chan.

Fucking Reddit with it's periods after every word. So infuriating!

Those have to all be bots, right?

People made those comments on a public page. I don't see why you are censoring the user names.

thanks for the gold kind strangler

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Gosh I completely forgot how to Reddit... I thought a guy named "Permalink" replied to his own comment several times...

🤦

Reddit is bloodthirsty and quite often rejects reason, especially if you’re in subs like justiceporn or similar. People DGAF if the solution to a problem was “just walk away” that was available for the entirety of the lead-up to an incident, they just want to see massive retaliation for a slight, perceived or real. FAFO. can’t fix stupid. Etc.

Bunch of angry drunks looking for a fight for any reason.

That, and Reddit is all about reactions and retreads in all the popular subs, just like TikTok and the like.

The conversations happen in the small subs. Sometimes.

I remember the last post I saw on reddit before I switched to lemmy full time. It was the day after they removed 3rd party app support. I clicked on a video where 2 people were fighting, normally when something like that was posted I'd be able to go into the comments and find a source of some kind, be it a news article, someone who had seen it before knowing the context, or even a link to the original post. But as I kept scrolling I saw none of that. Just post after post of low effort shit like "got em" or, even worse, racist whistles (one of the people involved where black). I looked at every single comment, I could not believe that there was no source. Once I reached the end I un-installed RiF (it still worked the next day just not while logged in) and never looked back.

Meanwhile on Reddit: look at these Lemmy losers constantly whinging about Reddit lolololol

Guess I'm missing the point. Reads just like I remember.

Clearly it's the "AITA", not, "Ask a historian".

I just left reddit a seccond time and this is the first thing I see

Seems like just as much of a waste of time as it was before.

Is there such a thing as a 13 yo AI who fucked your mother? Because this reads like a gang of them.

Why were you on Reddit, OP?

What sub was this? The big, default subs have been terrible for a very long time, the smaller, more niche ones are mostly still OK.

facebook for people who dont think theyre racist (theyre just racist with extra steps)

I'm using this in my daily life now

My neckbeard in spez, you don't talk to people in your "daily life".

Bots or well trained users?

I'm going to block you just for posting this. You've wasted everybody's time who had to scroll past this, and we are all now dumber. May god have mercy on your soul.

At least there is something to read, unlike on lemmy, where the most liked posts are bitching about reddit.

I only browse NCD on reddit now

ITT: Lemmy circle jerk

Jesus

Reddit is the new facebook imho, even people who I somewhat agree with frame their comments in such a way that I wanna punch them in the face, and a source for whatever they say? Lol trust me bro! I have seen that here even if someone says something that I don’t agree with, they at-least provide something that shows how they arrived at some point/conclusion, which opens a door for healthy discussions, I don’t think we as a community are much better, there are different flaws, but the environment is certainly different and better

At some point 'summer Reddit' just became Reddit year-round.

I wasn't, but thanks for the reinforcement all the same.

I'd give you a Gold but, uh... Anyway

Made a post on a subreddit basically saying how I had been trying to get a gameboy then scalpers jumped in and rose the price well past anything I could spend. It got some attention, basically a bunch of advice only useful for people making 8888888K a year. Then, overnight, a fuckton of mostly american scalpers spam downvoted me.

Could be bot responses to farm karma.

Once the account is a bit older and has enough karma points, it will be either sold, post spam, or Post/comment on an product or topic the owner wants to push, or down vote opposing opinions.

Once lemmy got popular, I just decided next time I get banned I won't make a new reddit account. Sure enough, I got banned without breaking any rules. Good riddance.

Well, this will obviously be a hot take, but I didn't leave reddit because I hated the comment culture. It was actually a bit endearing to me.

Brain not found.

AITA was really never the sub you went to for carefully considered prose. Just a bunch of edgy teenagers trying to justify being shitheads.

Just before the API drama, the instance r/Mexico started censoring insults to politicians and mostly to the president. They started trying to monetize something (I'm not sure how) and they didn't want people screwing things up. They started censoring a lot of content and I abandoned that subreddit. The alternative was a trash place, with racism and general LGBTfobia. Then the API drama started and I just left.