I just tested it out by typing in "Sonic the hedgehog fanart". For once, I was able to get some decent images without being bombarded by uncanny valley ai-generated images of Sonic wearing Rouge's outfit or poorly-drawn inflation art. So it seems to be off to a good start.

People probably post ragebait here too, but there's a built-in incentive on Reddit, particularly on subreddits like AITA or the Tenth Dentist, where users are encouraged to up vote the most 'interesting' posts, even if they find it offensive. Maybe the equivalents here also have this policy, but upvotes mean a lot more on Reddit than here---some subreddits require a high amount of karma to post, and posting something that's guaranteed to get passed around and upvoted a ton can get people enough karma to make many more posts, have a buffer in place in case a different comment gets downvoted, or just want a lot of karma for bragging rights. Hell, you can even monetize upvotes now, in some cases.

Here on Lemmy, upvotes mainly just pass your content around for the sake of passing it around. Maybe there's an algorithm that is more likely to push an unrelated post you made to the top, but the benefits for posting ragebait here aren't as many as they are on Reddit.

That's a really good site too, though I suggest using fedipact.veganism.social if you're specifically interested in which instances are defederated from Threads. Some instances have hidden blocklists and won't show if they have defederated Threads if you search through defed.xyz.

For example: You can only see that retro.pizza and masto.ai have hidden blocklists if you look through defed.xyz. However, if you look on fedipact.veganism.social, you can see that retro.pizza has joined the Fedipact against Threads, while masto.ai is fully federated with them.

Was this on Reddit? I know there are some communities there that actively reward users with upvotes for ragebaitey content.

You can find servers based on Threads defederation through this site. Since you don't want anything to do with Threads, I suggest filtering by 'blocked' and 'Fedipact' I'm not sure what the difference is between the two is though, so I'd appreciate if someone would explain.

Ah, I didn't look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn't lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I'd honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org who mentioned that. Sorry. It's been a long day ...

So I'm guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought...?

I can get why that user might have a pro-communist bias themself due to being from a pro-communist instance, but the articles they linked seemed to be an accurate enough representation of how the far left and far right see Wikipedia.

Maybe not completely accurate to how it really is in all aspects, but I don't really care enough about Wikipedia's biases to fact check each contradictory claim in each article. I barely use it as a point of reference anymore anyways. (Though I've found it tends to have a liberal bias, like both the articles stated. I seem to remember that during the past election, some sections of the articles about Trump or featuring him in some way used very emotionally charged language)

But accurate or not, I still find it hilarious to look at the articles side by side. One claims the articles are written mainly by teenagers and the unemployed and supports communism, and the other claims they're written mostly by privileged White men who hate communism.

...are these people writing about the same website?! 😂

I tried to get it to write a fanfiction about that camera falling in love with my sister's GoPro, but it didn't work. Evidently, this feature is only on the mobile app 😑 And I ain't downloading it. An article about it from CNBC

sniffle Beautiful 🥺

::: spoiler spoiler Maybe we should devote a sub to sappy edits of dark/snarky things that are brain-rottingly sweet or completely ruin the point of the original :::

Not part of this community, so maybe this is a stupid question, but...wouldn't those things taste terrible mixed together?

Edit: just looked up whether you could mix mead with tea, and apparently it is a thing people do. I guess the reason why I thought it would taste terrible is because I've tasted tea mixed with coffee, and it tasted terrible. I also just looked up whether you could mix tea with coffee, and apparently it can taste good too. My whole world of not mixing beverages has been flipped upside down. I'm sleep deprived. I will probably regret this comment.

I wonder what caused angels to be portrayed as beautiful humans with feathered wings, if this is the 'accurate' version. Maybe there was a different passage that had a more charitable description of angels, and companies figured they could sell more figurines of goddess-looking bird women at CVS than...uh...whatever these look like.

A stable man isn’t effected by another mans sexual preference. Allowing that which you disagree with to control your mental state is the definition of powerlessness

I mean that's what makes it funny, isn't it? This guy is making a complete fool out of himself dragging himself up a railing, simply because he's annoyed by a symbol of identities different from his own.

Yeah, just added a cw for the comments upon someone else's advice. I only skimmed a few, and I thought they were satire before I posted it. It's always concerning when something you think is satire is really serious...

I read the first few comments thinking they were being sarcastic, but reading further they genuinely seem to view...whatever the heck this guy is doing...as some kind of heroic stand against wokeness or something. What. Edit: Also, if I were to include a content warning about reading the comments, what do you think would be a good thing to warn for specifically? Cause they seem to be hating on pretty much everything LGBT related.

Hear hear. I'm often disturbed by how many upvotes these comments that show hate towards religious people in general get, and as much as I hate blocking people, I often block the posters on sight. I guarantee that if I still followed that religion, and heard someone say my beliefs were a mental disorder, it would do nothing to change my mind. In fact, depending on what phase I stayed in, I might decide to retaliate by spamming more threads with proselytizing in hopes of getting an even worse reaction to confirm that all nonreligious people are like that, that they were the ones who needed to change or be eliminated.

What manner of conniving knave would inflict this impenetrable partition of text on an unsuspecting web denizen?

Thanks for explaining the Mastodon-Lemmy compatibility thing. I've been confused about it for quite awhile. My alt's instance blocks a bunch of Mastodon servers, and I've always wondered why, since I almost never see any content from Mastodon users on here anyway. I always assumed it was simply a gesture for the admins show that they disapprove of that server's policies or something.

I looked through several of these 'title' posts, and that does seem to be the most common use for that now that I look at it. Though I do occassionally come across stuff that you could probably come up with a decent title for, but might take longer than is worthwhile. Thank you!