The internet is a brutal place at times. To some, it can ruin someone’s well-being. To others, it’s a Tuesday. But the apps I just listed can have stuff that makes you question humanity. So which one of them has the most comments that shows you the worst of humanity? And feel free to share examples and your reactions
Recently i only lurk here historically 4chan by a large margin
Dear Lord, Facebook. I feel like my IQ drops 5 points just when the page is loading.
Its objectively twitter/X.
Never had a Twitter. Left Instagram. So I guess it’s between here and Reddit.
My issues with Reddit are pretty much just with the owners and various sub mods and generally how the platform is run. The user base is mostly on the same page as me.
The thing about Lemmy is there are a lot of tankies. A lot of “tHeY’rE bOtH tEh SaMe” advocates. And that shit pisses me off. But I like how the platform functions better. Less censorship. I’m not getting site-wide banned every 5 minutes.
I guess if we’re talking about users specifically, Lemmy users piss me off more. But I’m also on this platform a lot more now than I am on Reddit, so maybe that’s influencing my opinion.
All of them have problems. Lemmy is arguably the least diverse and thus the biggest circlejerk.
I see a lot of dumb or reactionary comments all over, but the most truly “what’s wrong with” ones? Here, unfortunately 😅
Hands down - Kiwi Farms.
I generally understand what’s wrong with people on every platform except for Lemmy. Lemmy has its own strange where you really have to work at how they got to where they are now.
oh, I already know what’s wrong with these people
YouTube comments always surprise me with their stupidity. LiveGore comments are unsurprisingly abhorrent
Reddit - Dunning Kruger: everyone thinks they’re experts in everything. Also psychotic mods.
Twitter - Nazis and Nerds: Anyone still on there for anything other than tech and some science news is either stupid or okay with supporting a Nazi.
Facebook - Anti-Vaxers and Pedophiles: the algorithm ensures that even the most hardcore science groups get flooded with anti-vax comments and intellectually disabled idiots.
Lemmy - Anti-Technologists: there’s a ravenous hatred for AI with zero consideration for how beneficial it is as a technology. Completely misdirected. Get pissed with the corrupt corporations and politicians selling out our privacy, content, land, water, and energy.
LinkedIn - Corporate sycophants and AI: want to talk about virtue signaling?
Find me an AI that wasn’t trained on stolen data by a power-hungry billionaire to make an excuse to buy up literally all the computers that humanity can produce while destroying social, political, and environmental conditions in order to corner the market and make us all subservient to their cloud for tasks we now depend on doing electronically, and it’ll be just fine with “AI”
Go look through the Local LLM Community. Also Machine Learning is a thing that existed before AI Dungeon, I’m literally learning ML in a class rn.
Are you fine with the US? UK? France? Germany? Japan? China? How about Electricity? Does you car run on oil? Do you use plastic? How about nuclear power? Do you eat meat? Buy stuff online? Fly?
If we start judging things on their past/origins you won’t be able to use anything and live anywhere.
I pirate content. I don’t give a shit about “IP”, or the concept that surrounds it. Also, open sourced models are about 6 months behind the frontier ones. This has been the case at least for the last 2-3 years. Sooo sorry, don’t care about “ooooh they used the content I uploaded on a public site for training”.
Thank you for agreeing with me… then… not?
Lemmy is basically just leftist Reddit in my experience. Otherwise, very very similar problems. The anti-technological development crowd is truly unlike any other though.
The anti-technological development crowd
Lol wut?
The fediverse is extremely pro technological development.
The only tech that the fediverse pushes back against is gen ai for valid reasons such as how it is being implemented causing environmental, social, and economic harm.
as how it is being implemented causing environmental, social, and economic harm.
Agreed, valid criticisms. Who however, is to blame? The science and the scientists behind it, the technology itself or the capitalists commercializing it?
A very valid set of criticism aimed at the wrong entities causes a lot of harm, does it not?
The tech itself is quite cool. IF implemented in a correct regulatory environment, it can do absolute wonders.
What should be the approach? Fighting for the correct regulatory environment or just shitting on the tech itself?
the capitalists commercializing it
All of the problems are about how the capitalists are implementing it for commercial reasons. Shitting on the tech is the best approach because the capitalists are being given every exemption from taxation and regulation possible so it isn’t like we can wish for a magic regulatory environment to fix anything. GenAI should be treated like Meta’s glasses, tech being forced on everyone in the worst possible way and violating all kinds of rights and it should be banned for general use until such time that some kind of guard rails and regulation exists.
AIs out there saying you can spell poop with the letters in Wednesday. I don’t understand why we’re trusting it to do anything. Its a Google search bot farm, and we already know how shit Google is to use, why is a million searches through it better than 1? It can’t code for shit, each patch Blizzard has put out since AI is has gotten bigger, is worse. At its best it made funny will smith spaghetti videos, because of how shitty they were. Now it’s just a propaganda machine; Our lil digital Himmlers.
Insta is the only one i use and basically every post has awful comments that make me question humanity.
Facebook makes me question humanity most tbh.
IG’s algorithm is so well-attuned that I very rarely see content I don’t like.
Twitter’s a dumpster fire I don’t touch. and Reddit is just phobic garbage nowadays.
Its the content you don’t see though.
IG’s thirst farming stuff is the absolute creepiest to me.
Here - I don’t spend any time at those other places so I have no clue what they’re saying.
If you aren’t a Nazi why would anyone still be on Twitter?
If you think destroying the social fabric for advertising is cool keep using meta products
Reddit is just sad and bots.
Fediverse reminds me of early reddit, mostly cool, interesting people.
Check out this interesting bug photography I took. Praying mantis eating a fly.
Well now I’m hungry again.
😂🤣
Up where the air is crisp.
Most of the garbage or stupidity or contentiousness being posted on all platforms these days is all generated by the chatbots that are integrated into each of the platforms’ systems. There are literally zillions of them! It’s just the way it is for now. But at some point, I’m sure that this ridiculousness will be virtually nonexistent on newer and better platforms to come.
