• Reddit has begun issuing warnings to users to regularly upvote violent content with a view to taking harsher action in future.
  • The company says that it will consider expanding this action to other forms of content in future.
  • Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
  • N3Cr0@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    There are still human users over on reddit? This must change. More punishment on reddit please!

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      Delusional. There’s like 100 users on Lemmy. Reddit has grown its userbase this year.

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        12 hours ago

        Most users on Lemmy are Delusional. especially here in /c/Technology – turns out, this community isn’t for technology at all, but rather for bitching about silicon valley companies.

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        12 hours ago

        I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

        The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

        Lemmy has that problem too, but it’s much smaller in scope. Mostly because there’s less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation