The enshittification is nearing completion.
Every single rising post on Reddit is crypto spam
Submitted 9 months ago by page@discuss.online to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 9 months ago
Sphincter 1 or sphincter 2?
Fapper_McFapper@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
Where we are going we don’t need
eyessphincters.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
What a terrible Lemmy clone…
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 9 months ago
At least they are not doing the Twitter/X thing where they impersonate celebrities to push crypto… yet.
Lemmy Silver is the only fake Internet money I endorse.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Thanks for the warning Ms Robbie. I’m a big fan of your movies, do you have any further financial advise?
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You’ve seen the Wolf of Wall Street right?
Do like the exact opposite of that.
grue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This isn’t infuriating at all. Where’s my !schadenfreude?
fidodo@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Be the change you want to see in the fediverse
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
“Nah I’d rather just sit back and silently upvote while someone else provides the content / comments”
So many threads have tons of upvotes but less than 10 comments
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sorry to see you’re still using Reddit
cerevant@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This is clearly the trend for Reddit- posts in general interest subs are frequently reposts by bots and commented on by bots that are karma farming so that they can post and upvote these scams.
The scary thing is that this would be easier to accomplish on Lemmy, we just aren’t big enough to be worth their time yet.
Alterforlett@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Unrelated, but has anyone noticed that almost all posts and comments have at least one downvote?
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
When you have a platform with multiple millions of people, everyone is gonna be hated by someone
cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 9 months ago
it was always mind boggling to be on a sub reddit, like say for King of the Hill and someone posts an innocent quote from the show or something and they just randomly have two downvotes for some reason.
NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
On reddit? Vote % is fuzzed a little to prevent spambots or something.
On lemmy I haven’t noticed that
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Well they changed their algo, it doesn’t work like that anymore
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
WTF kinda subs are you subbed to, dude?
page@discuss.online 9 months ago
It’s the rising posts for /r/all. So all the posts from all the subs that, if they continue to get up votes and comments, are close to being on the front page.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not those, see the 'joint button?
Rooty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m sorry op, I tried to summon all of my fucks, but alas, there were none to give
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Behold and gaze upon thy land where a field of fucks may lay and hark! For it is barren!
jet@hackertalks.com 9 months ago
The same crypto scam, must be a bot army
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Man, it’s almost like we warned them this would happen
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There’s a scam on the Reddit front page today
It’s the same old scam as yesterday
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
More like mildlyexpected
TheLurker@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In a few years Reddit will “rebrand” as a link aggregation site.
It’s the last stage of a social media platform’s demise.
s_s@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Have you been to digg lately? It still exists.
Each link on the frontpage gets maybe 2-3 comments. 😂
DM_Gold@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Wow really? How the hell are they staying afloat?
gamey@feddit.rocks 9 months ago
I bet there are absolutely no bots at work on the platform!
thorbot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Spez can drown in the shitpile he’s created
stefenauris@pawb.social 9 months ago
More like mildly amusing
duxbellorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Shit like this is why people will leave reddit and never come back.
jet@hackertalks.com 9 months ago
We are even more vulnerable here… hopefully the scammers come slowly enough that we can develop effective defenses without scaring away our users.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It should straight up being illegal to manipulate a platform like this using bots tbh.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When 5 of the shown groups are obviously crypto related why is it a surprise? Bots push all kinds of stuff to the top in other popular subs, crypto subs are just getting more targeted bots instead of some tiktok clip.
marmo7ade@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]page@discuss.online 9 months ago
Uh, no… these are the rising posts for /r/all. I have zero interest in crypto.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 9 months ago
Gross
JustSomePerson@kbin.social 9 months ago
What a fucking disingenuous post. I can go to reddit now, and most rising posts are about things that interest me, because i subscribe to subreddits that match my interests. If you subscribe to Crypto scam subreddits, you can't go here and whine about it. Curate your timeline, just like you need to do here.
I'm so sick off all the FUD about reddit. Yes, the reddit management are basically pure evil, I agree. But reddit itself was barely affected by the exodus.
page@discuss.online 9 months ago
These are the rising posts on /r/all, not my feed. I’ve used /r/all/rising for years because it gives more frequent and diverse posts than the same couple dozen lowest common denominator posts that stay on the front page all day.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yet, you are here contributing to the discussion about it.
WldFyre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The only people I’ve ever seen use the term “FUD” have been cryptobros lol
Why so much salt at people hating on crypto?
grue@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The only people I’ve ever seen use the term “FUD” have been cryptobros lol
For the record, “FUD” had a long history before crypto was even invented. In fact, in an Internet context I’d say it was much more closely associated with Microsoft nonsense than with crypto nonsense.
JustSomePerson@kbin.social 9 months ago
I didn't write a single positive word about crypto. I even changed "spam" to "scam".
I am salty at people hating on reddit with tailored examples to "prove" how shit it has become. It's basically people trying to tell themselves that things are much better here, and reddit has turned to shit since they left. My guess is that they actually think the content here is kinda sparse, so they need to keep telling themselves they did the right thing.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
But reddit itself was barely affected by the exodus.
True, but only for now. There’s a single leading alternative as a result of the exodus, and theoretically you can only enshittify something so much before people start to leave en mass.
thal3s@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
And their new Elmo-like system to pay mods will make this type of spam worse as mods will be incentivized to allow this crap.
mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Is there even payment? I was under the impression it was simply digital awards similar to what is already on user profiles. It seems like it only affects the modsupport subreddit. Is there something I missed?
Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 months ago
What are they doing now? I must have missed that news because that sounds wild
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 9 months ago
nazi digg deserves it.
Zerlyna@lemmy.world 9 months ago
joel_feila@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Glad i never got into crypto. I don’t even know what airdrop and L0 mean
Iusedtobeanadventurer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No fucking clue myself but isn’t airdrop an iPhone thing?
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Airdrop™ is, but “airdrop” is to data transfer what Q-tips are to cotton swabs.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Spez’s plan to increase Reddit profitability for the shareholders was to implement NFTs. This is unsurprising.
Rayuza@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I dont use reddit anymore but still have it installed. The amount of chat invites i get per day from bots is insane.
Wilibus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Not having any chat features was the absolute best part of Reddit is Fun.
RIP old friend
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
RIF was the only reason I used reddit. 55k+ karma account, 9 years of contributing. 1 post since RIF went down.
CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Great.
Astroturfed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The crypto and buy GME spam from the groupthink “investment” subs was one of my biggest annoyances on Reddit. I used to love some of the investment subs, they got utterly ruined by the GME short. Every other post is about trying to pump and dump some short squeeze stock.
The saddest part is so many of them don’t even realize it’s just a bunch of pump and dumps and hold the bag on stocks forever. There’s still so many of them screaming about how GameStop or AMC is a good investment. Failing outdated business models, good investments because people short the stock. Sound logic.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
I used to browse by new and once you filtered out all the crypto scams it was usually pretty fun and diverse. I do the same on Lemmy now, but there’s a lot less stuff to filter. Haven’t used Reddit since the API announcement and never looked back, though.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Stop going to Reddit?