And nobody seems to bother (or highlight it which would be the job of the commenter)

I just browsed the feed for 20 mins after a month off being sober and don’t miss the disguised instagram feed at all - short videos, meme comments, no old forum experience whatsoever. But thankfully we have that on Lemmy now, so Lemmy try that :)

Btw I didnt even read more than 5 comments total… heres examples:

EDIT: look at how many “people” reply to that stuff - what a sheit show

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago

    When platforms optimize for engagement they get more engagement at least in the short term numerical sense. Whether or not that results in actual humans engaging is less clear.

    I expect this problem to get drastically worse on most platforms.

    • arakhis_@feddit.orgOP
      71·
      2 days ago

      That’s why I framed it the way that the commenter or at least responses have to call those out

      This topic of dead internet theory was an immediate thought of mine.

      Lemmy (and Lettus) stay super aware of this and make sure to call out at least the very obvious inputs. Another thought would be to even maybe moderate it and remove such content that are obvious set phrases by AI

      On that note I’ve even read on a German news post that on Instagram for example 80% of inputs are bots. Like imagine all those fake conversations with potential agendas on the other hand…