Correct me if I am wrong but most of those “personal stories” are pure fiction right?
Many of the exaggerated stories are fiction. But there are plenty of Redditors posting pictures of things they saw locally and other information which some could consider sensitive.
Based on your question I thought you were referencing subs like confessions, AITAH etc. Not pics of dumb animals or kids.
I just assume they meant the cum box
Don’t get me wrong, I was referencing those too. In general, when I visited Reddit there were a lot of personal stories and pictures. These can often provide a unique pov which is not found in the news.
Lemmy is more a forum where people discuss the news. The comments are far more advanced and interesting than Reddit. But because people (including me) are far more privacy minded, I feel like they rarely post personal experiences. This might be an unfixable dillemma.
On Reddit I haven’t read a true story since the 💩🔪 story.
I suspect some are AI and others may be creative writing exercises. Some portion are probably real.
99% minimum
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wtf is this a copypasta lol
It’s from the tv show Breaking Bad.
I snorted, I loves me some Breaking Bad copypasta haha
It might also be that out of 97 million daily active users, if 1/10th of 1% are attention-seeking crazies, that’s 97,000 people over-sharing at absurd levels.
I’d say more likely just:
- Not enough users to see that many stories being posted
- Not that many users to make it worth sharing detailled stories
- Lack of communities for that kind of content
You’re just not gonna see a lot of tales from retail in a place dominated by chronically online people, engineers, nerds and somewhat older userbase.
For people unaware, there is !casualconversation@lemm.ee
I’m aware of that one but it’s not that active especially compared to the big reddit communities like TalesFromRetail, AITAH, MaliciousCompliance, TalesFromTechSupport, etc which is where all the good stories come out of on Reddit.
Oh indeed, I was just promoting it to people unaware
People that have the need to share “personal stories” with basically strangers are looking for an audience first and foremost. Lemmy has way fewer people so the type of person trying to seek that attention will be going to facebook/twitter/reddit etc. If Lemmy was one of the top-ten most used sites, then we’d see a lot more of that kind of content.
Also, people who freely share details about their personal lives are generally not as particular about social media platforms. They’re likely to use whichever one they have heard of the most, or the one on which they already have an account, like Reddit. Lemmy is far from mainstream, so they’re not likely to think of it first, if they have heard of it at all.
Happy cake day!
We don’t mind individual points for a story we like the feedback that people like our story, But most places aren’t even counting overall points. It’s not some reddit race to the top for who can have 300,000 karma. We’re here to actually chit chat and socialize and that’s just not conducive to throwing out a bunch of personal stories for shock and awe. Nobody is selling Lemmy accounts with 10,000 karma for bank.
We haven’t been infested by the vain Facebook crowd yet.
I think let me has less personal stories than read it because Lemmy isn’t infested by bots writing personal stories.
Or copying personal stories from previous posts, and recycling them for votes.
You underestimate the amount of bot activity on Reddit. Some threads on all are something like 70%+ bot comments, with most being at least half.
It’s crazy.
Dear
Penthouse Forumreddit, I’m a 20 year-old college student and I never thought I’d be writing to thePenthouse Forumreddit, but…It’s the lowest common denominator of smut entertainment. The tech companies have managed to veil it all in prestige. It should be called gossip media or something.
Instead people think there’s some kind of real human connection. Some kind of deep discussions happening.
I think it’s because most of those personal stories were attention-grabbing fakes and there’s fewer incentives to do that on Lemmy
No.
Nah, throwaways are easy
Privacy no longer exists; it’s now little more than an illusion.
If you use modern technology at all, even your own thoughts aren’t safe. Existing ad tech can intuit what you are thinking before you are even aware of it, and AI will be able to dig even deeper into your mind in the near future. There is no escape.
Fire and brimstone preachers used to scream about how God was always watching, but regardless of whether you believe in that sort thing, one thing is true: technology is always watching, and your identity and innermost thoughts can be reassembled at any time by any number of entities, and you wouldn’t even know.
Damn, I’m sorry you have to go through that fbi guy.
You would be surprised at the incompetence of the surveillance state. I’ve known people subject to terrorism investigations by world superpowers where the state couldn’t figure out the basic facts about that person’s life, let alone find anything that may be helpful to prosecution. This kind of fearmongering only encourages people to not be cautious. Not that the extent of surveillance isn’t terrifying, but at the other end of the table is just other human beings. All humans are fallible, including the ones who spy on us, and we can both outsmart and outmanoeuvre them if we’re serious about it.
It’s not just government that is the problem. The problem is that the data has been collected. It’s still being collected. It already exists. And think about that incompetence you mentioned… do you think that data is safe from less incompetent actors?
The best time for action on protecting privacy was yesterday. The second best is right now.
Stop thinking bullshit.
This reads like, ease don’t make feds actually do their jobs.
My fed Joe, gonna have to earn his pay check
Too much doom and gloom for one take.
Sorry ☹️
You’re giving too much credit to a statistical account and too little to yourself.
Nah, this is just an excuse a bunch use to not care about actually doing something about it.
Source: worked in almost all huge big tech companies, y’all give em too much credit.
I never said something shouldn’t be done about it or that it shouldn’t exist. I consider privacy a natural right that we should fight to protect. I’m just saying that, whether people realize it or not, it no longer exists. It has already been taken away, and the repercussions of that reality are going to echo through time.
I think it might be the case for some, but mostly I think that more people on Lemmy are less focused on themselves and personal anecdotes. More often I see people here reaching for cited resources to support what they’re saying instead of “Oh one time my Uncle’s friend’s cousin…”. It still happens here, but not nearly in the same capacity from what I’ve seen.
