Hey, let’s test it out: I will immediately downvote this comment. Everyone else should down vote it, too. Let’s see how far we can push the counter down…

It’s always been a weapon of mass distraction, though, and Redditors are poor spellers.

I am looking for the humans, not many are here yet.

Reddit may be bots talking to bots, but a lot of Lemmy is bots shouting to no one in particular.

The only thing I really miss are the Sports subreddits. I didn’t realize how much news I got from them. People are trying to recreate them here, but there simply aren’t as many people here.

Oh, I also miss the guy who posts pictures of his cows.

I’m noticing this too

Let’s not overdo it, it’s not like Reddit was a pinnacle of moral virtue before the Mod changes.

My wife mocked me for leaving Reddit in a huff for nerd reasons. A month later she started asking me what I used instead, since she could see that Reddit declined just in that amount of time.

I’ve seen this, too, and was quite confused until I realized what was going on. It’s not site-breaking for me, but I do find it odd.

It probably happens because in this case, the child comment is the “center” of the comment tree, and the dev may have wanted to present it’s parent as a tree going the opposite direction. But it is confusing.

I’ve been seeing this also

Keep pushing with the relevant authorities. There is a difference between “We are not intentionally restoring comments” and “We certify that we have forgotten all of your info”, and that’s what these authorities enforce.

It doesn’t matter if Reddit’s inscrutable back end makes it difficult. That’s Reddit’s problem, not yours. If they want to do business in the EU, they either have to comply or pull a Meta and stop serving EU residents entirely.

They had a third option, to treat their users as human beings and not dumb fucks to exploit until they want to leave (and forget they ever went there), but they declined to use it.

Good Bot

Some Redditors actually have some experience with this, because some subreddits award Community Points which are really crypto tokens based on karma. I earned enough shitposting last year that I had to figure out how to properly declare it on my taxes.

While it increased traffic, most of the increased traffic were low effort posts and the same old jokes farmed for Karma. I think there were even more bots there, too. Real discussion sometimes got upvoted, but a well-timed Elon Musk joke could earn $20 or so

If something similar is implemented site-wide, this (in conjunction with the API changes that hinder moderation) will no doubt result in an influx of bots mining memes for cash.

Now that I quit Reddit, I need to figure out how to sell those now.