Needed a pickling mix recipe I remembered only vaguely, but before I navigated to the community that held it, I noticed how horrifically botted the front page was. I did a cursory account check of the posts on the top sort and found that nearly half of the front page was comprised of bot posts or bot boosted accounts. Which is, under no uncertain terms, horrific.
Lemmy has its issues, but how someone could see this toxic landfill and choose to plant their flag there, I don’t understand. Glad to be amongst the people who cannot tolerate this.
How did you figure out they are bots?
Thats an understatement. I’d love nothing more than to ditch reddit and use Lemmy but every single time I come here, I’m flabbergasted by how bad the content is. Its like 100% ragebait - like every single person here is 13 year old who just hit puberty and hates the world
From what I can tell, lemmy users tend to be more open to discussion and on most things a lot less echo chambery.
In reddit going against the grain gets you downvoted or banned by an overzealous mod.
At least on lemmy people mostly will give you a counterargument, or at worst ignore you.
That describes every uncatered online community that I’ve ever been in. And there have been a lot. The Reddit screenshot is 2/15 politics rage, and I just checked our unfiltered active sort, which held 4/20. I don’t see much difference, besides having humans rather than bots.
Gotta block negative communities and people, and subscribe to the mentally beneficial places here, same as nearly everywhere else on the internet pre-algorithms.
New, high point total accounts are nearly always bots.
To be fair I have hated the world since I was 13.
then leave. bye