• 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.

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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.)

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      1 year ago

      It’s not even brain drained, most of the high quality users were still there (including myself up until two weeks ago). They were just drowned out by the massive flood of mainstream instagram-esque users ending up on the site + bot accounts.

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        1 year ago

        Myself was still commenting a few times there, although I’m potentially braindead. (I don’t rule out the possibility.) But I feel like even the smarter Reddit users who were still using the platform became less and less encouraged to show “hey, there’s intelligent life here”. They were like, “I came, I saw, and I shut up because I’m not putting my hand in this wasp hive.”

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    1 year ago

    I like how Imgur thinks it’s porn or something and had to warn me and verify that I’m 18 to see…a picture of Buzz Light-year. I know he’s the most erotic Toy Story character but still

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    1 year ago

    Computer graphics sure has come a long way. Modern GPUs can render that scene in real time and barely break a sweat. Back when Toy Story was made, each frame took between 45 minutes and 30 hours to render!