Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge::Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules.
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Reddit was never a place to go to for facts. Reddit has always hated facts.
It's perfect if you want to feel outraged all the time though.
I've been learning to control the outrage, and figuring out ways to turn things around. It's like my time with conspiracy theories helped me to discern bullshit, fact check, be objective, etc.
The hardest part is when you're served something on your "side" of the issues. It's so much easier to spot errors on the "opposing side" than your own.
Depended on the sub, some were actually pretty well moderated (though a lot weren't)
That didn't stop the circle-jerking, romanticism, and ignorance of the sub's participants, or the ridiculous and inordinate amount of positive and negative karma coming from subs about weevils, for example. Easy karma just for posting 'aww lawd, here we go again' in r/bedbugs. Post a pic of a steak in r/steaks with 'cast iron' and 'reverse sear' and get easy karma too. - Post the same steak or even a much better one with 'tri-clad / air fryer' and get nothing. -First-hand experience with a crappy AI generated steak and one I put in an air fryer for 25 minutes at 180F before finishing in a tri-clad. -Edge to edge medium looking better than 99% of theirs. -lol. (The karma system is shit)
And you think Lemmy is better? Lmao
I see all over the internet a certain tribalism towards each person's social media of choice. Even when people admit that there are problems, they still want to convince themselves it's better than all the others and that everywhere else is pure drivel.
I am rooting for Lemmy but I'm only going to call it "better" when searching with "site:lemmy.*" returns me better results than "site:reddit.com". For now the culture is a bit better but the content is still pretty scarce, not to mention that there is nothing making this place any less susceptible to misinformation.
I felt it was enough to hint that.-lol Criticism of alternatives being too much like Reddit hasn't been well received.
of course