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This is overstated.
In the old days, there was a hierarchy of reputability. At the top you had the bluechecks that generally represented reputable sources of information, who had premium billing in the platform. Then you had the normies. Then you had the slush-pit of soft-blocked people that were shoved into the "other replies" box because everybody hated them and they only followed their network of bots.
Now, the hierarchy is reversed. The slush-pit people are now have blue-checks, the algorithmic boost on blue-checks is even stronger, and half of the old reputable blue-checks have left.
This is like saying "Reddit/Lemmy has always been awful" if we made the upvotes/downvotes of all the worst people on the site worth 100X what a normal person's upvote/downvote was worth. Yes, there have always been problems, but they can get worse.
You must not pay attention, I'm new to Lemmy, but Reddit's been garbage for years. Seems like a lot of that garbage made it's way to Lemmy too. Face it anything that you can hide behind a screen and a keyboard with relative anonymity is fucking shit. It outs people for the kind of person they REALLY are when they don't have to face the repercussions of saying shit to someones face.
Yes.
But here's the thing:
Reddit/Lemmy: those people have equal voice to you or me. Of course they can amplify that voice with sockpuppets, but still - one account one vote.
Old Twitter: those people have downmodded influence. Twitter knew everybody hates them and treated them like the garbage they are.
New Twitter: those people rule the roost, because they're willing to pay Elon $8/mo for a megaphone for their jackassery.
You can pay $8/mo and have your own platform too. What's the issue?
Once coined as: John Gabriel's G.I.F.T.
I still reference G.I.F.T. a few times a year. Glad to see someone else doing it.
Damn, UT 2003 was 20 years ago...