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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You would think the Internet and access to an unprecedented amount of information would have made us smarter, more emphatic, and so on.

    But it turns out people are easily misled and manipulated. Social media quickly starts to feed you more of the same crap just because you watched one video. Village idiots can now form echo chambers with like-minded individuals, e.g flat Earth believers.

    Those who want power will take advantage of people who fall into all this.






  • Exactly. The amount of /r/adviceanimals level pure shit content on Reddit is high, paired with the bots that repost things until they start hocking some crypto bullshit links.

    But I have kept using Reddit for years because every once in a while, you see someone write thoughtful posts about some niche subject you didn’t even know existed. That’s always interesting.

    Lemmy is at a state where it needs more users writing about things that interest them.

    Relay Pro just went to subscription, so the last 3rd party Reddit app is gone. I will probably read Lemmy much more on mobile from now on and hope it picks up steam.