The law requires YouTubers to identify sponsored segments. I don't see why that shouldn't also be applied to social media posts.

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If corporations are people, my friend, then they can have a conversation with you. What’s the harm in that?

It's already illegal in the EU, several influencers have had trouble with the law because of this in my country (France)

There are just certain communities that haven't picked up over on Lemmy. D&D, Pathfinder, LFG, and I'm sure many others. I hate reddit with a passion but there is still stuff there.

The larger engagement is a potential reason..lots of smaller niche lemmy communities users won't engage or comment..I just lurk on Reddit with an API modded sync client. If they ban my throw away or block the API I'm done

I left in a huff when they jumped the shark and dropped 3party app support. I was a pretty heavy user / contributor and fully thought I might crawl back at some point. Turns out I'm doing fine without going back and the alternatives, while massively smaller, are so much less crappy feeling. I think a lot of people would feel the same way if we could just get them to try the green eggs and ham. I think it's great that Kagi is starting to index Lemmy, but the one gateway to get people over here that might actually work would be if Google searches started turning up Lemmy content. I think that would grab some attention.

Jfc people came to Reddit because up until now they were getting replies from real people with that have no financial interest in the outcome. This completely subverts everything people valued about Reddit. This fucking guy.

rich, high-intent product conversations

these people make me so fucking sick i cannot

i cannot believe this site i spent so many sad years posting on in high school, with pure heart, posting purely out of a desire for interesting interactions and the potential to make insightful, peer-reviewed contributions that others could enjoy, has turned into such fucking dead-eyed garbage.

It makes me so mad...it's like a company butting into a conversation me and a friend are having in person.

"how do we turn our users into money"

I can’t quite put my finger on what exactly makes me feel so strongly, but it’s something to do with how sentences and paragraphs are constructed.

It has the classic 3 section style. Intro, response, conclusion.

It starts by acknowledging the situation. Then it moves on to the suggestion/response. Then finally it gives a short conclusion.

Yay we’re developing the uncanny valley for AI generated content

The full url written out is a good clue, but beyond that, AI sounds off-puttingly positive because it's always trying to be as inoffensive and appealing to everyone as possible.

You are dead on. That post absolutely fucking reeks of AI. I want to say if you can't smell it a mile off you're an absolute cretin, but there are probably millions of people who've never really spent much time with LLMs and would be easily fooled by this garbage

how thoughts are laid out

Perhaps you're noticing the lack of deixis?

Without going too technical, deixis is to refer to something in relation to the current situation. For example, when you say "Kinda cool though, I feel like I’m becoming able to spot these.", that "these" is discourse deixis - you're referring to something else (bots) within your discourse based on its relative position to when you wrote that "these".

We humans do this all the bloody time. LLMs though almost never do it - and Ophelia_SK doesn't, that's why for example it repeats "debt" and "job" like a broken record.

EDIT: there's also the extremely linear argumentation structure. Human text is way messier.

You see all over the place in Amazon reviews too. You basically can’t trust the reviews anymore.

yeah it's called Lemmy and....

Oh. I get it.

Which is funny because the marketing speak screams at me through that entire post. I recognized it as spam not only from the link, but from the "In terms of finding a job..." as well. I know those kind of responses. I've written those kind of responses. Those responses now repel me.

Enshittification has been enshittified.

Too much. Reminds me of that time not long ago where every lie was “gaslighting” all of a sudden.