• PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com
    391·
    6 days ago

    Remember guys “no brigading” is only a reddit-wide rule and does not apply to brigade efforts that originate from outside of reddit. Also, koboldcpp is great for self-hosted text generation ai. I don’t know who needs to read this so go crazy with that information.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    381·
    6 days ago

    Counter argument: Reddit is predominately American. These upvote sites use low cost foreign slave labor to generate their output. Buying upvotes is outsourcing jobs. Keep Reddit American. Don’t buy upvotes!

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    1293·
    6 days ago

    “Our opinions are wildly unpopular to the point where even if a bunch of us showed up we’d struggle to make a difference so we’re gunna need to buy upvotes!”

    Like…c’mon.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
      471·
      6 days ago

      Have you seen the content there?

      Yeah they’re gonna need lots of money to get any attention

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      29·
      6 days ago

      The right may not have good ideas, organizational skills, charm, ethics, understanding of economics, history, or politics, or strength in numbers, but they do have the one thing more important than all of these.

      Money!

      • Emerald@lemmy.world
        7·
        6 days ago

        I’d argue they do have organizational skills and and strength in numbers. Don’t underestimate that.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
        11·
        6 days ago

        You don’t get and keep money without some of these skills though.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          7·
          6 days ago

          Eric Trump says “what?!”

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          And this after his father would have made 8 times more money by simply leaving it in the bank than all of his variety of hotel and Sharper Image steak sales businesses - he’s literally the only one I’ve ever heard of who managed to lose money running a casino!

          “The system” is what makes wealth, not individual people these days. Obviously not solely, but the above example shows how it is the primary determination factor.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Owning an “upvote company” is literally the only reason on God’s Earth that anyone could give seven shits about content and voting on reddit.

      It may have had cultural impact back in 2016, but that was almost a decade ago and the world is different, reddit is different.

      Now it’s just bots arguing with bots and every post is a surreptitious paid ad for something. People haven’t quite “move on” but they certainly don’t give reddit communities the relevance they once had. People broadly roll their eyes at reddit. In the last couple offices I worked in, the people joked that you’re “never allowed to share something on Teams if it came from reddit” and “reddit is a dirty secret, everyone knows we browse it, but it’s shameful to admit it.”

      Sorry reddit, the cool factor has left the building a long, long time ago.

  • Freefall@lemmy.world
    46·
    6 days ago

    Subvert the will and desires of the majority using money and shitty practices…how very GOP of them.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      6 days ago

      Subvert the will and desires of the majority

      Come on, dude. This is Reddit, not a vote in parliament. The site’s entire business model revolves around astroturfing.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    6 days ago

    I remember, back in 2016, when the /r/The_Donald website just used a bunch of bots and other fake accounts to juice their content to the front page week after week.

    And then the Mods tweaked the algorithm so you wouldn’t have a wall of Trump memes on the front page every day. /r/The_Donald folks spilled into other sites and started repeating the strategy, so Mods had to tweak the algorithm again. And there was this back and forth that dragged all the way into the general election, at which point the Admins finally decided to ban the sub. But they also had to ban a slew of leftist subs, to make things fair.

    And now we have Hexbear, a site composed of purged Reddit-fuges. But Reddit is still full of Trumpies, for some curious reason.

    • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      And there was this back and forth that dragged all the way into the general election, at which point the Admins finally decided to ban the sub.

      My recollection is that they didn’t ban the sub until after the election, like a year into his presidency, shortly after the Charlottesville protest. I might be wrong though, I wasn’t really paying all that much attention to them.

      • icedterminal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Depends on ISP.

        If IPv4 ban, it is indeed 100% ineffective. Nearly all ISPs either CGNAT or rotate addresses. If IPv6, the ISP just forwards a 64 bit block and leaves it at that. You must call and request a new IP block. In which case you’ll be told yes or no. If yes, it’s either free or paid.

        I know with ATT Fiber, they don’t offer address changes unless there is some security or service interruption reason. You have to unplug the modem for 30+ days so the lease expires if you don’t want to do rounds with support. My IPv4 address has changed once, but my IPv6 address block has never changed.

        • atocci@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 days ago

          With my “new” ISP, I gave up running my DDNS updater on my home server. It’s been years and the IPv4 address still hasn’t changed…

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 days ago

    cause everyone knows if conservative replies get upvoted enough people who hate Trump will have a sudden change of heart. Is this guy in the upvote for money business or what?

  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
    17·
    5 days ago

    This is the equivalent of not being able to get your crush to like you, so you pay hooker just to tell people you got a girlfriend.