The thought of this triggers my anxiety. I’m so glad Lemmy exist, but what if Lemmy didn’t. What would the world look like?

  • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d be getting banned from commenting on YouTube for calling bullies “assholes” and telling them I hope they get terminal herpes.

    For real.

    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 year ago

      Look at the comment section under some random news story and you find either comments about Hunter Biden, comments supporting racism/slavery, comments promoting Marxism-Lennism, comments spreading religion, conspiracy theories, comments complaining about youtube censorship, even thought your racist ass comment is still up there for over a year. Like who even wants to look at youtube comments.

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        1 year ago

        Saw a study the other day that estimated that in 2021 about 45% of internet traffic was bots. Don’t believe every comment you read is someone who believes what they are saying either. There’s been a few cases of troll farms of people getting paid to push trash opinions. When an ideology can’t defend itself with reason they start screaching.