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I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. (lemmy.world)
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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think maybe as well it always became really heated with the Reddit bots when you would express a differing opinion to theirs. There were many times bots would pick a fight and then argue with you like it was their job (because it was). This feels more chill like the early days of Reddit and I hope it stays that way.

[–] Z4rK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I guess as soon as Lemmy gets properly search indexes and if search engines starts putting weight behind results from Lemmy then commercial interest will arrive?

If a lobby organization thinks they will gain something by buying opinions on Lemmy, then they’ll try to do it?

I’m not sure how you can avoid it, but I hope Lemmy will be better than Reddit. Worst case it’s even easier to manipulate Lemmy since it’s mostly a lot of small instances run for free by people in their spare time.

[–] dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you people genuinely think that the bots are the ones having these arguments?

[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m using bot broadly to mean astroturfed actors and influencers. Absolutely there are troll farms on Reddit being paid to push specific agendas.