They exchanged messages just before the subreddit r/WhitePeopleofTwitter was given a temporary ban for 72 hours

  • kungen@feddit.nu
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    15 days ago

    How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.

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      15 days ago

      This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.

    • bugg@lemm.ee
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      15 days ago

      Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

      Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

      I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

      Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).