• Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It has been like this for years already. That place got brain-drained really hard over time.

    It’s just that now even non-intelligent life will also avoid it.

    • Nugget_in_biscuit@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I feel like that site started to go downhill once they started to implement their A”lGoRiThM.” They started promoting so much negative content to users to keep them hooked - basically my entire feed was taken up by posts of people dying / getting wronged / complaining about how terrible modern society is / etc. And now they just want to be TikTok

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        1 year ago

        i think that algorithm-based content suggestion can be a good thing if implemented correctly, it’s just that what’s good and what’s profitable doesn’t always align. sometimes i wonder what the world would look like right now if actually decent algorithms are the norm instead of the absolute cancer that’s common right now.

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        1 year ago

        The very fact that you handle the possibility that you might be non-intelligent already makes you considerably smarter than most of the Reddit userbase.

        (Don’t tell anyone, but I’m a dumbarse too. That’s why my avatar is a smoking chimp. I just don’t want to interact with other dumbarses, I’d rather leech off smarter people.)