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  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah i opened reddit recently and was immediately hit with those fake AITA stories that somehow i once kinda believed, and now, after being in more sane communities, those stories just look fabricated for maximum interaction.

    It baffles me how i never realised reddit, twitter and other socials leveraged the outrage machine so much until i joined lemmy.

    • FiveMacs
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      181 year ago

      I went back and got irrationally angry… immediately realized Reddit was pure cancer.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      131 year ago

      Twitter is bad too. On top of the outrage bait, there’s a ton of garbage posts that are just designed to farm engagement: “Which of these 12 movies from the 1990s is your favorite?” - and the post is just 12 numbered movie covers.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I don’t mean to bitch or anything, but this kind of post (other social platforms are bad) is a pretty decent engagement farm as well.

        • The Picard ManeuverOP
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          61 year ago

          I think this post is likely to get people talking, but the intent was just to make something funny.

          The stuff I’m referring to on twitter is this kind of (borderline phishing in this case) nonsense:

    • @iforgotmyinstance
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      1 year ago

      What’s wild is there is a total side business that feeds on those posts. There are at least a dozen podcasts centered solely around AITA posts.

    • themeatbridge
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      61 year ago

      I was surprised to see so many “AITA for cutting out certain foods? Yes, buy Weight Watchers, asshole!” ads disguised as posts. I’m sure they’re not new, but using a third party app meant I never had to see them.

    • @solstice
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      41 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the stories themselves are fake but a lot of the situations are plausible that I can kind of see happening some time. The comments sometimes have a lot of useful guidance for navigating complicated social situations. But yeah I do agree with you overall.

    • @SMITHandWESSON
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      There still a little of outrage nonsense here, but it’s mostly Tankies and other political nonsense.

      Also, if you look at the bigger picture, Reddit is nothing more then a psyop with a bunch of extreme activists trying to steer people to support thier cause.

      • @panchzila
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        81 year ago

        Yesterday I witnessed outrage against someone who dared to suggest that getting some sun everyday was good for you. People berated him as if you could get cancer just by being exposed like we were fucking vampires.

        • @SMITHandWESSON
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          Lol, there’s no subtle nuances to anything over there. Take sex work for instance, according to Reddit if you’re in that profession, you’re either trafficked or groomed and that’s it.

          It would be absolutely crazy to think that someone would be willing to perform sex acts for six figures and minimal work time. No fucking way🙄

          • themeatbridge
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            six figures

            Shit, here I am giving it away like a chump. Imma write up an invoice for my wife.

            • @SMITHandWESSON
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              11 year ago

              I told my wife that if she wants to wack off on the internet for cash, that’s fine by me. 🤣