Send help.

“Help”? Do you mean iron? You never have enough iron. Or copper. Or stones, oil, uranium…

I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement. Would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done to you?

…sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Good to know - I wasn’t aware of SRS’ origins.

I feel like someone could do better than SomethingRotten though, by playing both sides, and encouraging users from both to brigade and annoy the shit out of your typical user. To the point that the users start asking themselves “what am I supposed to do here? If I support [cause], Reddit screeches at me; if I oppose [cause], Reddit screeches at me; and if I don’t do either, both screech at me! Perhaps I should stop using Reddit.”

This could be based on porn (perhaps a good target for that; as @remotelove@lemmy.ca said, who controls porn controls the internet)), or even some ultimately pointless matter, like pineapple on pizza.

*not sure on who would “we” be in this sentence.

And today, I’ve learned that this is Greedy Pigboy’s song.

Quick, Electronic ConArts! Hire the greedy pigboy into your ranks!

That’s a fun idea - specially if we could recruit the Reddit “porn is bad!” crowds to raid Reddit NSFW subs.

I don’t think that he’d have the $190 millions because he paid himself a fair bit in stocks, that would crash alongside the others.

Can we make it revolt harder, then?

More specifically: are there ways to encourage the current Reddit userbase to act so notoriously destructively towards the platform, that no sane investor would burn their money buying Reddit stock?

Let’s ask the same question in another way.

Can we make its userbase revolt? If yes, how?

A lot of the newbies were simply clueless, not necessarily lacking intelligence. Still, they were generating a sudden and huge influx of low quality “content” aka noise, lowering the ability of the [previous] userbase to find what it wanted, and that userbase got understandably pissed.

And eventually this was solved - some platforms died, some got moribund, but the ones that were able to ride on the new times thrived. And more importantly, the internet as a whole found ways to contain and sort that noise.

That’s a lot like what’s happening now, except that the agents are not a huge crowd of noobs - they’re a handful of shitty people using LLMs and Stable Diffusion to do so.

Nah. It’s degrading the internet, for sure; but not killing it. We got a similar event in September 1993 and the internet survived fine.

I miss the fruit juice with whey that two large milk producers in my region used to sell, a decade or so ago. I’m almost sure that both companies stopped producing it altogether.

When I had dogs, in my childhood, mine would try to sleep with me, and my sister’s with her. I say “try” because if our parents noticed it they’d prevent it. But it was cute, as if they associated both of us with different packs, and knew which pack they belonged to.

Ouch.

How many of those were Karens expecting this to be your job? Just curious, it’s one thing to help clueless people, another to help clueless and entitled ones. (At least the friend that I mentioned is a bro. A dumbarse when it comes to this stuff, but still a bro.)

Yes, I do. However, please focus on what is being said, not how - I’m saying that treating right-wing discourses as taboo is harmful for the left, it’s shooting our own feet.

At this rate I don’t even know what to do:

• 2FA - he struggles with it, so I had to turn it off
• writing his password in a piece of paper, telling him to store it - he lost it
• making an easy to remember password for him - he’s still forgetting it
• telling him “I don’t remember” - he’ll come here and ask me to reset it

What concerns me the most is that, if I didn’t do this for him, someone else would. And some people give no fucks about the others’ privacy. Like, I’m grateful that he trusts me, but he shouldn’t be relying on trust on first place!

Look at the implications of what yourself is saying and then you’ll notice that your two comments promote right-wing discourses, through your irrationality. What you’re saying effectively is the same as saying one of those two things:

• Right wing discourses are highly convincing for rational people, unlike left wing ones. OR
• People are a bunch of irrationals who can’t “sieve” discourses based on rationality.

This shit is not a taboo dammit. You can - and should - sieve through the statements of any political discourse, between what’s true vs. false or moral vs. immoral. And when you do this with most right-wing discourses, you find so much babble that it’s easy to discard; or at least irreconcilable moral premises. It’s safer than you’re pretending that it is.

(NB: this is coming from a heavy smoker and a communist.)

I’m losing my patience with three people. In none of the cases it’s tech illiteracy, it’s something interacting with it:

1. Friend who calls me every 2~3 months because he forgot his Facebook password. It reached a point that I annotated his password in my machine, but I don’t need it because I memorised it.
2. Neighbour who sends a 10min audio file, full of contextually irrelevant stuff, to ask a simple “how do I do X?”. No, 10min is not an exaggeration.
3. Mum. Asking her any relevant piece of info means asking the same question up to five times in a row, because: she didn’t hear it, didn’t pay attention to it, answered something “random”, assigned it a name that only her knows.

I’m not even a “computer guy” dammit. I don’t work with programming, IT, or related.

I think that we have a limited ability to process (absorb, analyse, retrieve what’s meaningful, discard what’s meaningless) information as a whole, that is used to process both general and narrow info. And, when we go considerably past our limits to process info, our brains start taking “shortcuts” to process the info that we’re exposed to, such as:

• simplifying meta-info, such as the truth value of the info
• some types of fallacious thinking
• disregarding bits of info that are highly visible, because they are not central or expected
• using the “default” way to obtain new, relevant info (asking it), even when other means would be desirable

And that some things demand quite a bit of that “processing info” ability; for example

• Discarding meaningless info, specially when associated with a stronger and/or repetitive stimulus
• Look for missing bits of info on what’s said, as the unspoken consequences of what you’re being told to do.

That’s advertisement in a nutshell - people telling you what you should do, without telling you all things that you need to know, in a flashy and repetitive way. And it applies specially well to online advertisement.

It wouldn’t be just advertisement doing it, mind you; but I do think that advertisement plays a huge role.

If the reasoning above is correct, this should be affecting all of us, not just GenZ and GenΑ. And we could even hypothesise if it’s affecting them more than GenX and GenY, as well as why:

• perhaps GenZ+Α are more exposed to advertisement than GenX+Y?
• perhaps it affects them the most because the way that you process info depends mostly on childhood+adolescence, so GenX+Y never had the chance to ingrain those “shortcuts” to begin with?

Just my two cents, mind you. I wouldn’t be surprised if all the above was false; I still felt that it was worth sharing. [Sorry for the long reply.]

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