The internet is a brutal place at times. To some, it can ruin someone’s well-being. To others, it’s a Tuesday. But the apps I just listed can have stuff that makes you question humanity. So which one of them has the most comments that shows you the worst of humanity? And feel free to share examples and your reactions
Hands down - Kiwi Farms.
I see a lot of dumb or reactionary comments all over, but the most truly “what’s wrong with” ones? Here, unfortunately 😅
YouTube comments always surprise me with their stupidity. LiveGore comments are unsurprisingly abhorrent
I generally understand what’s wrong with people on every platform except for Lemmy. Lemmy has its own strange where you really have to work at how they got to where they are now.
oh, I already know what’s wrong with these people
Most of the garbage or stupidity or contentiousness being posted on all platforms these days is all generated by the chatbots that are integrated into each of the platforms’ systems. There are literally zillions of them! It’s just the way it is for now. But at some point, I’m sure that this ridiculousness will be virtually nonexistent on newer and better platforms to come.
Insta is the only one i use and basically every post has awful comments that make me question humanity.
Reddit - Dunning Kruger: everyone thinks they’re experts in everything. Also psychotic mods.
Twitter - Nazis and Nerds: Anyone still on there for anything other than tech and some science news is either stupid or okay with supporting a Nazi.
Facebook - Anti-Vaxers and Pedophiles: the algorithm ensures that even the most hardcore science groups get flooded with anti-vax comments and intellectually disabled idiots.
Lemmy - Anti-Technologists: there’s a ravenous hatred for AI with zero consideration for how beneficial it is as a technology. Completely misdirected. Get pissed with the corrupt corporations and politicians selling out our privacy, content, land, water, and energy.
LinkedIn - Corporate sycophants and AI: want to talk about virtue signaling?
Lemmy is basically just leftist Reddit in my experience. Otherwise, very very similar problems. The anti-technological development crowd is truly unlike any other though.
The anti-technological development crowd
Lol wut?
The fediverse is extremely pro technological development.
The only tech that the fediverse pushes back against is gen ai for valid reasons such as how it is being implemented causing environmental, social, and economic harm.
AIs out there saying you can spell poop with the letters in Wednesday. I don’t understand why we’re trusting it to do anything. Its a Google search bot farm, and we already know how shit Google is to use, why is a million searches through it better than 1? It can’t code for shit, each patch Blizzard has put out since AI is has gotten bigger, is worse. At its best it made funny will smith spaghetti videos, because of how shitty they were. Now it’s just a propaganda machine; Our lil digital Himmlers.
Find me an AI that wasn’t trained on stolen data by a power-hungry billionaire to make an excuse to buy up literally all the computers that humanity can produce while destroying social, political, and environmental conditions in order to corner the market and make us all subservient to their cloud for tasks we now depend on doing electronically, and it’ll be just fine with “AI”
Go look through the Local LLM Community. Also Machine Learning is a thing that existed before AI Dungeon, I’m literally learning ML in a class rn.
I pirate content. I don’t give a shit about “IP”, or the concept that surrounds it. Also, open sourced models are about 6 months behind the frontier ones. This has been the case at least for the last 2-3 years. Sooo sorry, don’t care about “ooooh they used the content I uploaded on a public site for training”.
Are you fine with the US? UK? France? Germany? Japan? China? How about Electricity? Does you car run on oil? Do you use plastic? How about nuclear power? Do you eat meat? Buy stuff online? Fly?
If we start judging things on their past/origins you won’t be able to use anything and live anywhere.
Thank you for agreeing with me… then… not?
Facebook makes me question humanity most tbh.
IG’s algorithm is so well-attuned that I very rarely see content I don’t like.
Twitter’s a dumpster fire I don’t touch. and Reddit is just phobic garbage nowadays.
Its the content you don’t see though.
IG’s thirst farming stuff is the absolute creepiest to me.
Here - I don’t spend any time at those other places so I have no clue what they’re saying.
If you aren’t a Nazi why would anyone still be on Twitter?
If you think destroying the social fabric for advertising is cool keep using meta products
Reddit is just sad and bots.
Fediverse reminds me of early reddit, mostly cool, interesting people.
Check out this interesting bug photography I took. Praying mantis eating a fly.
Well now I’m hungry again.
😂🤣
Up where the air is crisp.
Still being on Twitter would be a red flag…
I log off a couple days ago and never looked back
What the ever living fuck took so long
A full couple of days? Wow, mister, will you teach us?
Every platform has its crazies. Even here, I frequently come across takes so ignorant and disconnected from reality that I wonder if the commenter fell through a portal from some parallel dimension.
Even on inane shit, the crazies really come out of the woodwork. I had someone suggest to me recently (on a different account) that I was a monster on par with Hitler for setting up Windows on my grandmother’s computer instead of forcing her to use Linux. She’s 87 and wants to type shit in word, she isn’t going to learn a whole new operating system and word processor for that when she can barely figure out how to log in to her email.
But VIM solves all these problems
Twitter allows you to say the N word. And openly share racist shit. They allow you to dox and make threats to anybody that isn’t aligned with Musk. It’s also full of bots that retweet.
The worst part is that it feeds Grok. So Grok-powered bots say racist shit that get fed back into Grok.
You didn’t mention it, but 100% Facebook. Twitter is 2nd, but the edginess explains some of it away as cringe insecure angst. Facebook is people who are largely just incredibly fucking stupid and sheeplike.
Instagram, I barely used it and I saw a lot of dumb stuff and a lot of AI content. Incredibly users seem to like that kind of garbage where a guy yells for some reasons or the AI slop content. People repost some of that content from Instagram and TikTok to Reddit. I never understood why they need to yell, do ridiculous things and all that on some actual useful information making it unbearable to watch.
