What’s app is also Facebook.

So facebook, threads, What’sapp, Instagram are all FB owned lol. They need to be broken up for being that huge.

There’s a bunch in c/all, lol. Some of it okay, some just straight up not great. Eventually c/all runs out of topics and just starts injecting nsfw posts from subs.

Huh, good to know. I might actually do that. I usually use an app, so I dunno if those settings are exposed in-app.

Even the helpful bots get annoying after a bit. You submit a post, and immediately get linked bots that show you five alternative sites, three units of measure you already know, and one bot that has absolutely butchered the synopsis of the article posted and left out important details that then derail the conversation.

I’m honestly so sick of bots on this website. Nobody even comments, it’s just junk that then dilutes the actual communities posting in c/all. I’d love to have a way to block all memes, porn, and bot posts just so I could actually discover new communities here instead of AI redhead pussy, bots crossposting stale linux memes, and old reddit help threads with 0 comments because they are asking for help on a different site.

I’m really glad that it’s small. I’d rather see genuine posts about 3D printing or aquariums or mountainbiking rather than ragetext memes or influencer shit on the frontpage of reddit. I do hope we kinda dial down the copy/paste bot content from reddit though, especially the memes.

Growth always comes in waves and then settles. I spent nearly a decade on reddit until they killed my app. Reddit took over a decade to become really big. I’m not really that worried for lemmy that much, especially since we now have a framework for something other than reddit. Even if reddit goes into nosedive mode, it won’t be the end of forums as we know it.

Really? I haven’t seen them in months. Maybe they are blocked on my instance?

Bit of both! I like the aquarium sub here. I also get really sick of the same bad news over and over again. Especially since a lot of the sources are…not reliable sources… I generally stick to stuff like conversation subs gardening, gaming, etc.

Damn, no kidding! Cheers!

I’m bi, and there’s a decent amount of content if you are into specific things. Definitely more F than M though, atm.

What happened to them anyways? Did everyone just mass defederate them? Or did I somehow block them entirely?

I always read it as “shit it just works”

Them federating and keeping open federatation a la reddit with their 3rd party apps has a snowballs chance in hell. That’s data they won’t be fully getting. And Facebook and mark are addicted to data like digital fentanyl with tranq mixed in. They’ll do anything to get their fix.