I spent like half my time on Lemmy today just blocking bot accounts, bot communities, and chuds. The all feed looks about as bad as Reddit did now.
That didn't take long.
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I spent like half my time on Lemmy today just blocking bot accounts, bot communities, and chuds. The all feed looks about as bad as Reddit did now.
That didn't take long.
Yeah Reddit was the only social media I used, and I think I'm just going to go without.
At least until the seas level, lemmy is all the worst parts of Reddit with none of the good, and I owe it to my mental health to not bother with the hordes of disengenuous bullshit.
If you need a break, please take it. Your mental health is not worth sacrificing for random strangers on the internet. I will say it is highly instance dependent, so migrating to a smaller instance may change that experience.
If you need a break, you should take it.
Take care.
I could literally stalk this user to try and make counter-arguments to their posts, but I think they could just block me?
Or I could try to make the arguments to some moderators that he is botting or automating his posts, because the speed is... human, but highly productive.
As much as I dislike hexbear, they are still effective as a way to reduce the astrosurfing in some communities like news and politics.
Otherwise, public upvotes, but that's not very popular
Absolutely. I think there's a bunch of mitigation efforts that need to be taken.