But if I comment then I’ll break my 9 year record of being a lurker on social media!
It was good while it lasted…
I bet you $20 I can get you commenting by the end of the day!
Dude! He’s been training for 9 years, no way are you gonna win that bet!
Can’t we just upvote?
I wanna give you a meaningless gold. Here, take it 🪙
Why does up/downvoting not count as active? Doesn’t make sense.
Nope—upvoting doesn’t add to the user count for whatever reason. Deleted comments do though!
FUCK SPEZ
+1
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Bump
Plot twist: All of the “bot accounts” were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we’ve sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.
Nah lol, I’m an admin and could see all the email addresses they were using. Fake af
tbf disposable email services are a thing
But my email is a Fastmail masked email, it’s randomly generated l, so it might look fake as well ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Well that’s what I get for making my email address chuqid71bdu6@hotmail.com
Lmao yeah that pretty much looks like what they were using.
But the way I took care of it was just deleting users who hadn’t completed their email verification within one hour. The bots haven’t actually done email verification YET
But, I’m a lurker.
You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my manager!
This is not a strictly commercial network. Do we really need useless comments or posts just to increase some stats numbers? I’d think about quality contents instead.
Agreed. Quality > Quantity in this case
Whelp, that’s me out
But it’s scary
And now thank you for your contribution!
Go commenters go!
I’m scurred
I like trains.
I like tuetles
Hello mine-turtle!
I like Messi.
Voting on posts doesn’t count as engagement?
Sure, I guess I’m active, but I will go back to lurking
About 15 years ago many of us left Digg and migrated to Reddit because at that time it became kind of what Reddit is right now without even all the API shit going on.
I have been hoping for something to replace Reddit for a few years now but it seems like every possible alternative would instantly become populated by the alt-right, people who got evinced from other platforms, instead of free software loving geeks and their relatives.
Reddit actually gave us the kick in the butt that we needed to start anew and make something better. I wanted to fight, I made the subs I managed private and then NSFW but I realize it is not worth spending the energy.
We are the people who made Reddit great but there is no point in trying to keep it this ways, it isn’t even great anymore anyway. Let’s not be slaves to a company that only cares about profit and acts as if we need them while the truth is that they need us.
Trying to make Reddit better, at this point, is like volunteering for Microsoft instead of contributing to open-source projects with the hope that they will become less oriented toward profits.
This is already a place we can call our own, all we have to do is to furnish it and make it a nice place to be for those who understand why it is worthwhile to do so. It is not the actual owners of Reddit that made it great, quite the contrary even, they keep on making it worst. It is us, the users who made it great and we can do the same here.
I am pretty sure Aaron Swartz himself would tell us to leave the site he created if he could communicate from his grave. There is no point in wasting energy for a company that wants to sell us NFTs, virtual gifts and rewards. I never bought any of this shit anyway but I am going to make Lemmy a donation right now!
I’ve already posted more here than my last 4 years on Reddit.
