• bigbabybilly@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    It’s kind of like when I’m driving. Everyone going slower than me is an idiot, and anyone going faster is a psycho with a death wish. 🥲

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    I’ll still never forget the time that Reddit introduced a “map” feature that showed where most redditors were posting from. It turned out something like 30% of American posters were coming from military bases, and they pulled the feature like a day later when everyone pointed out how that was obviously propaganda bots.

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      2 days ago

      I heard that the mods on r/pics are getting at the very least, 6 figures. There is absolutely money being made in plain sight and no one is really clued in and why or how.

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        22 hours ago

        Did you know that people can go on the Internet and tell lies?

        I’ve been doing this forever and haven’t received a single cent.

        • Corn@lemmy.ml
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          21 hours ago

          You messed up. I got my 40 Ruble check from Putin for registering a lemmy.ml account, President Xi gives me 60 cents per post, and George Soros doubles that.

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          21 hours ago

          AS the old saying goes, mate, its not what you know, its who you know. If you dont know the reddit maffia, you dont get to know anything. Reddit is the 7th largest platform on the internet based on traffic numbers. But the funny thing is, chatgpt, the 5th largest platform based on traffic, gets over 40% of its citations from reddit.

          This is a question of influence. If people want to push a specific ideology, they go to reddit. And if you have the right mods on side, you can push whatever you want and ban and delete any and all dissenting voices.

          For example u/Llim, a mod on something like 18 subs. Most of which have millions of users. or u/abrownn, mod on 25 subs, again most of which have millions of users per sub. I can keep going on, and this is just by looking at the mod list of r/mademesmile. Look at others in the most popular sub list, and you’ll see the same names over and over again as mods. This is how they do it. A small number of people, who control what can and cannot be posted, which in turn influences search engine and AI citations. This is where the money is made.

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    3 days ago

    dude I need to apply for wherever this paid troll gig is. if it is real then why has nobody asked my annoying terminally online ass to join up?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Many of us are actually professionals in various fields, and aren’t just talking out of our ass.

  • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    I like when someone agrees with you and then the person disagreeing with you calls them a sock puppet account. It’s so hilarious to me.

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    I agree, because the alternative is much worse.

    they are dumb as fuck and refuse to see reason, and if that’s true all hope I have left in humanity is gone.

    let me tell you…I don’t have much hope left.

    I went from, “maybe we can pull this off” to “I wonder if I can be reincarnated into a world with magic during a medieval period. just give me a house on a mountain next to a forest and I’ll be happy.”

  • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    While I do subscribe to the idea that social media is flooded with bots and shills, Im also of the opinion that a lot of you are real people who also just happen to be arseholes :)

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    2 days ago

    Apostrophe is possessive. The facts do not possess themselves.

    When there are a number of them, however, they are just facts, without an apostrophe.

    • s@piefed.worldOP
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      2 days ago
      1. The poor English is just how the existing meme template is written.
      2. The poor English may also be intentional to suggest irony or facetiousness in the meme as a whole.
      3. Apostrophes are not exclusively for possessives. In language, they can also indicate a contraction, among other uses.
      4. You’re the second person on this post to call out the apostrophe, but neither of you called out the capital F in “Fact’s”.
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    Eh, they can just be foolish or dishonest… and I can also have the wrong conclusions, especially when the topic gets more complex. 🤷

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      Woosh? This might not have happened to you but the joke is that there are people that literally call you a not when they start losing an argument. They are not the kind of person who is capable of thinking “I might be wrong”