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Are they all people though? Doesn’t reddit have a bot and paid trolling problem?
When you step into a non-bot place like Lemmy, it becomes apparent just how flooded Reddit is.
15 year old reddit account and recently had my first ever ban (3 days) for making an unfavourable comment about China, lol. Thanks to the ban I revisited Lemmy and found how nice it is to actually interact with real people. Now I don't really go on reddit unless to do some research.
Even if the bot problem is massively blown out of proportion, I would argue most people that are addicted to algorithms are almost no different from a bot. I really don't understand why we are only kicking kids off the internet because the way ai handles content feeds is literally killing them, when its obvious we should stop it completely because it harms everyone. And we should of been holding these people accountable, and I mean real prison time.
All this ad driven nonsense has done so much damage. The most obvious facebook has lost 3 lawsuits for what can be boiled down to mind control advertisement science. Cambridge analytics, the teen Instagram, faking likes and emotional manipulation of your news feed to boost advertisement revenue. They literally just showed you bad news 24/7 instead of pictures of your uncles fish he just caught, then advertisement companies who advertise for politicians, gambling, porn whatever use that data to send you relevant ads to whatever kind of weird doom loop Facebook has you stuck in. Not only that but Facebook has cause 2-3 revolutions and a genocide weirdly where US has military interest. Yet some how its ai moderation is so out of wack they are facing another potential law suit because ai is retroactively banning anyone and everyone ai hallucinations and demanding face scans before the ai instantly rejects and bans them. So I have a hard time believing if normal people can't just exist on Facebook without a random ban, that genocide could even happen.
Facebook supports scammers over users too because that's who gives them money, you are worse than a resource to them and if they could they would prefer if they can skip your consent all together to harvest your data. They let scam advertisements stay up, weird pedo ads and will ban you for mentioning it because you said a bad word, while the ads remain up. You don't even need a Facebook account they have many APIs that tie in to much of the modern web for connected features and whatnot. They also really want to push smart glasses on people so even those who don't have a Facebook account get a face scan, and because that person probably has you added in their contacts that they share with Facebook they slowly build profiles on you. Facebook has built and "canceled" face scanning projects 4 different times, there's no way they're not doing it even if they say they aren't.
I don't want to 'other' people in seeming less than human because they gobble this stuff up to the ponlint of becoming bots. Ultimately they are victims to something that they can't even really comprehend simply because they maybe get 3-4 hours to themselves each day, and that's gonna be filled with fun shit.