I’ve been here since the API exodus in 2023 and have seen it enough times to know that it’s typically someone coming in new from reddit, seeing that the feed of new stuff here has an endpoint and recharges slower, so they want to make a repost bot so there’s more content. They’ll never actually read that content, but they just want it so they have something to mindlessly scroll past. I don’t think they’re going for popularity contest, at least not primarily, anyway.
Giving them the benefit of doubt, I think they’re just highly misguided.
Guess that just illustrates that social media addiction is a real problem. I’ve never found myself in that position, but every once in a while I’m reminded that it exists.
I’ve been here since the API exodus in 2023 and have seen it enough times to know that it’s typically someone coming in new from reddit, seeing that the feed of new stuff here has an endpoint and recharges slower, so they want to make a repost bot so there’s more content. They’ll never actually read that content, but they just want it so they have something to mindlessly scroll past. I don’t think they’re going for popularity contest, at least not primarily, anyway.
Giving them the benefit of doubt, I think they’re just highly misguided.
Huh. I can’t imagine being so desperate to scroll that you have to spam yourself.
Guess that just illustrates that social media addiction is a real problem. I’ve never found myself in that position, but every once in a while I’m reminded that it exists.