I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.
Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.
I went back to Reddit the other day because there was a thread discussing the exact problem I was trying to solve. Like 3/8 of the comments were ChatGPT outputs that were added to the thread years after it was posted
That's why I left reddit years ago. The number of posts per day grew but the amount of useful information and interaction fell off so hard by the time botfarms and AI models became popular.
Dead internet theory is real, and it will spread everywhere! I dread the day when I will open discord and a popup tells me: "New beta feature: Augmented voice channels! Connect with your friends over our new AI helper bots."