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  • How many are bots?

    Its like facebook. Engagement is up, audience is increased, but, its likely by a small number of people. I started noticing that in the Aussie subs, that every week, near the weekend (right before night), there were obvious lobbyist posts, which suddenly shot up (stuff like pro guns, pro- one nation etc). At this point, our local racism party was clearly doing heavy lobbying on the platform (despite losing 30 years of elections, based on reddit, you’d think they were #1).

    Like facebook, a lot of people are switching off now, and trying to find alternatives.

    Moderation has also gotten really bad recently. I had an account for 14+ years, never got banned. Made a new account, and within a few months, I got a temp ban for apparently being racist (despite the fact, I spent a lot of time arguing AGAINST racism).

    On facebook in fact, on the heatpump posts, I actually noticed 1 or 2 names pop up on almost all the adverts saying they were an engineer, and that heatpumps don’t work, etc (with bad info). Reddit allows infinite accounts, and no doubt, it is not much better there












  • auzy1@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldMeta Is Dying. It’s About Time.
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    4 days ago

    Problem is, it’s been overrun by rage bait for clicks and vocal extremists.

    It’s weird watching people think their opinion is popular because a handful of people are shouting it everywhere on Facebook.

    It’s no longer fun, and there is no way to force only posts by people you know. So all the racist garbage gets lots of engagement and is also added to your feed