Part of the issue IMO is that so many of our Lemmy communities are just copies of subreddits. The bot creators see a subreddit shaped hole so of course they want to fuck it. Having communities with new original themes might help deter the bots, and the natural content might be more interesting too!
Holy shit, dude, I can’t even tell what this post is about because your UI is blown up way too big and it’s distracting me!
Please, allow me to show you how to fix this: Go into Developer Options, and then do a search for “minimum width” (sometimes it’s called “smallest width”, depending on the device), and increase that number until you can actually fit a decent amount of content on the screen. A setting around 450-550dp works best on most screens.
Edit: When configured properly, your UI will look like this. Please note all the extra room for activities! I’ve got nearly double the amount of screen real estate, compared to what you’re looking at!
What a stupid waste of time
Don’t be a dick; this is the very first setting I change when I get a new phone, and I can’t be alone in this. So no, it’s not a waste of time, you just can’t admit that you weren’t aware of the setting.
You’re the one being a dick to him about having normal settings on his phone. Pretending it’s unreadable so you can be condescending about it.
Dude I’m not the one who started with the insults. If you roast me, I roast you back. If you’re nice, I’m nice back. Golden rule.
I said nothing to inspire that “stupid waste of time” comment. I don’t even understand why people are so heated about this when I was just trying to help… Are y’all upset because I’m easily excitable? My bad! That’s just how I am!
Quit your fucking crying. You were an asshole and got called out for it. Take your lumps and move on with your life and maybe learn a lesson or two.
Hell yeah! Whats the point in having ~2k resolution if everything in the UI gets blown up bigger than it was in the days of 640x480? Do your letters look that much smoother? Do you like only being able to fit a single sentence on screen at a time? If I’m paying for that screen real estate, I want to use it all!
That’s what I’m saying!!! Thank you; I thought I was going crazy. I can’t believe my fellow Lemmings are this against changing your UI scaling to actually match the screen you have…
Lol are you some kind of blind boomer? Why is everything so big on your screen? 🤢🤮
Condescending amateur.
Or maybe some of us have normal sized phones
My phone has a 5.7" screen which is about as normal as it gets. It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting. It’s the very first thing I change when I get a new phone.
It’s okay to be embarrassed because you didn’t know about the setting.
Are you this condescending to everyone you talk to?
I mean I’m kind of ok with that, I just don’t want to use reddit. Or am allowed to. Then again reddit is a corporate cesspit so that will start spilling over…
As long as the bot is allowed to be there it’s not a problem it’s not ideal obviously. It should be considered if it is actually a good idea will the community ever develop if it is just already 100% reddit reposts?
I think it’s kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. Hopefully the community existing and having regular posts increases the odds of user interaction like comments and votes, which would naturally lead to more and more posts from actual members. Hopefully whoever is running that bot can wind it down while actual engagement ramps up.
I blocked them
Unfortunately you can’t block the AI enforcing the reddit terms of use, which shadowban users on a half-assed hunch.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/975398/reddit-ai-rules-hub-moderator-old-reddit-developer-platform
It was only a matter of time before they found a way to get rid of the mods. They were always too much of a variable that the company could not control.
I don’t mind, if content is interesting. I was forced to post fairly big news no one else bothered with today.
Good. Lemmy needs more content. I hate that I miss out on so much by being here, but I can’t go back to reddit. Therefore I welcome the bots with open arms.
I’m ok with that if it’s on a separate instance that’s easy to block/hide (which has been happening already). Where I take issue is bots taking over communities where humans post.
Mods need to be better on this. It isn’t hard.
I think half the problem with lemmy is there’s too many people who reddit rejected and not enough that rejected reddit.
I rejected reddit when they did RIF and Apollo dirty. I would still like the reddit content.
I miss RIF 😕
No, by “I can’t”, I mean that I don’t want to go back to reddit. Dodging a ban is easy, but fuck reddit. I can’t stand all the low IQ MAGA-types and general American stupidity there. At least Lemmy’s conservatives have enough brain cells firing that you can have a proper debate with them…
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But reddit rejects people for utter nonsense reasons. If you just use it enough you’ll eventually stumble into something that irks the wrong admin or gets caught by their word filter. So they “Reddit rejected” is really just a random sampling of power users. Of that set, the hateful degenerates are driven towards X imo.
Trading strategies on how to keep ice from kidnapping people is a bannable offense apparently.
Nothing would surprise me at this point, Reddit builds a platform that lets you get attached to your account & community and then takes it away without even having a human look at the ban. Total BS
Ew.
All of those posts are heavily upvoted and have multiple comments though? Accreditation, etc. are all valid critiques, but I genuinely don’t understand why so many people care about the provenance of posts.
I post pictures of bread bake and I’m on the upper lower middle side of mid for my baking skills.
If someone picks the best bread on a subreddit with a million members my posts will be buried instantly so what’s the point in adding real content?
That’s a very fancy way of saying, “I bake the middest of mid bread.” And I approve
The canary sings despite the cage. You don’t have to sing to anyone except for when you want to
I think that’s a bad analogy for a few reasons. First, all the examples you’ve posted are specifically meme template-friendly subs, which makes sense since they’re inherently easy to repost. I don’t think think a baking community would have that problem. But even if it did, you could just start a new baking community that bans reposts? Given how unpopular repost bots are, I assume your anti-repost baking community would be more popular than the hypothetical pro-repost baking community that your posts are buried in. Assuming that repost bots are drowning out more organic content, which prima facie doesn’t seem to be the case in either community you screenshotted as examples. Both seem like pretty solid examples of their being no other content.
Structurally speaking, up and down votes should ideally, roughly sort posts by quality. A post being buried (unpopular) in a community isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
If fear of not getting enough internet points is what’s keeping someone from posting, that’s more on them.
If I wanted to battle bots for engagement I’d be on reddit.
You’re not battling anyone for engagement because you’re not posting anything yourself. All you can offer is hyptheticals with no supporting evidence.
Why don’t you go hang out in /askscience or /askhistorians with Portnou if you want all organic content. He and his multiple personalities are posting there dozens of times per day and those communities are just popping off with content and activity.
kinda wierd for someone with a yr history that only posted a few things early on and then a few more 3 months ago who then also is on so unoften he does not recognize your handle to make this statement about your user. had to tag that.
Upset that your daily screenshots of the mod log aren’t getting much engagement? Perhaps you’re jealous that your reposts from /r/news aren’t getting as much traction as time2lose’s reposts? What engagement are you generating other than your current crusade against this specific user?
Edit: its also interesting that not only have you started a crusade against users for posting content that you don’t agree with (even though you don’t hold yourself to the same standard as evidenced by all your own reposts), but you’ve also started a community for you to start a crusade against mods for making decisions that you don’t agree with. There seems to be a pattern here where everything revolves around you and everyone needing to meet your demands.
Um… what?
I use browser so don’t get to see the little robot icon. Looking forward to a fix.
I think thats part of OPs tag for the user
Ah i see, and i did, thank you. I now also see the little chip icon, i saw that before and did not realise what it was. I am an idiot.
Dead internet theory!!!
Ugh, only bots still post about dead internet theory.
beep bop!
No longer a theory lol
I’d love a lemmy client that next to a username, it gives their post to comment ratio. That tends to give me a solid feel. If they don’t comment on their own posts ever, then they are not here to discuss.
You’re right, that’d be a really useful heuristic. I comment way more than I post, but whenever I do post, I always make sure to reply to at least a few of the comments people leave. It feels almost like a duty, and I’d feel bad if I didn’t at least try.
Yeah never been a fan of drive-by posting myself.
crosspost to c/FuckReddit
enshittification is 100% complete
This is a lemmy problem.
an internet problem
Half those posts I’ve seen here too. It doesn’t really matter tbh. At least the people are nicer here.
I’m not. I really am dreadful
yeah but it’s a nice kind of dreadful. like a smallpox pustule with a smiley face drawn on it.
I remember seeing someone being a dick to a post you made and I was upset about it. So I must say I haven’t concluded that you are dreadful yet.
Thanks for the solidarity! I get that sometimes but tbh I get a zillion notifications and rarely read them
