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Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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[–] 84 points 2 years ago (9 children)

To be fair, the content quality on Lemmy has been about the same from what I've seen.

Bots all over the place, low-effort quips instead of discussions bubbling up, lots and LOTS of low-quality armchairing, personal attacks and flaming instead of actual discussion....etc

It was good for a month or so during the reddit 3rd party app purge, but quickly went downhill.

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  • [+] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I think it's a bit of both. Content itself is pretty lacking tbh - and I say this as someone who hasn't exactly contributed any quality content, but I have definitely enjoyed the overall community, it reminds me a lot of reddit 10 years ago tbh.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Did you try some of the smaller instances? Big instances will inevitably face the same problems that Reddit has/had. A platform is as good as it's users, and you can only moderate up to a certain point untill it becomes straight up censorship. Sadly more people also means more trolls and shitposters.

    But yeah it's still annoying and I fully agree with what you said.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    God the quips became so popular and incessant it was really annoying. The comment used to be a good source of relevant information and there were some really funny people in there but now it seems to be drowned out by the same one liners or bots.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I very specifically don't experience this but maybe that's because I'm using sync and have deliberately blocked bots from showing up in my feed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How do you block bots using Sync?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This is actually a feature of Lemmy. If you open Lemmy and sign into your account in the browser you can go to content settings and there's a box you can uncheck for show bot accounts. Be aware this is all bot accounts even helpful ones line automods and such and it will affect the bota that autopost from Reddit as well. You'll see a downturn in traffic. But I thought it was worth the trouble.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I'm on lemmy.ca on a bunch of Canadian communities and it's not like that at all.

    Yes some communities have been under attack by bots and people posting CSAM but otherwise it's been pretty civil.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Truthfully hexbear has a lot to do with it. Could use a fediverse purge of that level of shitposting

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    No, Hexbear for all its intensity is very specific and limited to how they act and disrupt. There's tons of reddit-esque comments on lemmy coming from all the sites that aren't from Hexbear or Lemmygrad users.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'd say .world has been the most reddit-like for me. Overall it's still good here but I'm also looking forward to it simmering down for a while.

    I haven't actually noticed hexbear at all and I'm on an instance that isn't defed

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