• gitgud@lemmy.ml
      19·
      5 days ago

      I suspect some are AI and others may be creative writing exercises. Some portion are probably real.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      15·
      5 days ago

      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.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
          7·
          5 days ago

          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.

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
    111·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Drewfro66@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    I think it’s because most of those personal stories were attention-grabbing fakes and there’s fewer incentives to do that on Lemmy

  • Desert Hermit@lemmy.world
    15·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    21·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    192·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
      13·
      5 days ago

      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.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
    17·
    5 days ago

    Personally, that crosses my mind. But I came over in the reddit revolt and saw lemmy as a fresh start. Privacy isn’t easy, but at least make them work for it.

    Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.

    We just had a helicopter doing low passed over our house and watching the flight on a tracker, it was clear it was casing chosen neighborhoods. The lengths someone went to sell whatever info they grabbed means it’s highly valuable. The fediverse is open and waiting for it to be datamined.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
      61·
      5 days ago

      Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.

      [Citations needed] or it didn’t happen. There’s precious little extra information that a “nefarious” instance can harvest that any basic web scrapper can’t.

      • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
        82·
        5 days ago

        [Citations needed] or it didn’t happen.

        I think this mindset is naïve and unrealistic.

        People were saying the same thing for decades in response to a small minority warning about government surveillance, often dismissing them with labels like “paranoid”. Eventually, Snowden came along and produced the citations, at extreme risk to himself and his loved ones. It’s an anomaly that they were ever revealed at all.

        History is replete with examples of bad stuff going on for ages before irrefutable evidence of it became widely known. In general, if something can be abused to someone’s advantage, it will be, and likely already is.

        There’s precious little extra information that a “nefarious” instance can harvest that any basic web scrapper can’t.

        You have a point there, but consider also that effective web scraping uses significantly more resources than having the data you want handed to you. Monitoring Lemmy through federation would be much more efficient.

      • transitinoir@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        Can’t an instance also collect IP-addreses and device info, if its owner adds some scripts to its web version?

        • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          10·
          5 days ago

          An instance owner can only collect the IP addresses/brower fingerprints of users logged in to their instance. In other words, only slrpnk.net could collect that information about you, because you are only directly connecting to slrpnk.net.

      • grey_maniac@lemmy.ca
        21·
        4 days ago

        [Citations needed] or it didn’t happen.

        This is such a bullshit challenge. I often see it used to essentially bully someone into a side issue about citations. It’s a great way to avoid discussing the original issue.

        I have knowledge (that I rarely share) that I am absolutely not going to cite, because I’m not jeopardising sources, or clearances, or violating my obligations to the official secrets act just to play someone’s status games.

        If someone makes a claim, I am perfectly able to go find the relevant citations myself, if there are any. I am more interested in the structure and content of what they’re adding to the discussion.

        • davel@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 days ago

          I often see it used to essentially bully someone into a side issue about citations. It’s a great way to avoid discussing the original issue.

          You may well have, but that’s not what I’m doing. I’m familiar with ActivityPub’s & Lemmy’s APIs, and I’m calling bullshit on OP’s hyperbolic claim without evidence or elaboration.

          • grey_maniac@lemmy.ca
            1·
            4 days ago

            So, from your knowledge of those APIs, this isn’t possible? I don’t need to develop a defensive protocol for it? I like to be comprehensive, especially with a potential (ideological and propaganda, if not literal) invasion from the new fascist state to my south, but if this is a low-level probability, I can put it way down my priority list.

            • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              4 days ago

              If privacy is what you’re looking for, ActivityPub is never going to provide it, because it wasn’t designed for it and can’t be back-ported into it. You should log off and use (or create) something altogether else.

      • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
        2·
        5 days ago

        Credit where due, it is just my best guess. I have no evidence.

        I simply think if you have custom code on a machine to ingest data, creating a federation interface may be more suitable and stable in the long run than a scraper. The extra server load may draw attention or run amuck with security policies designed to obscure scrapers.

        But that is certainly an option.

    • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      An instance is not even required to access our posts and some user information. Most pages are just public.

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah but instances are supposed to e.g. delete posts when the user deletes them. A malicious instance might not do that. Even without malice, I know this doesn’t always work because some weeks ago, I deleted a comment almost immediately after saving it, then kept getting upvotes for it; I found out this was because (at least) one very popular instance hadn’t deleted that comment, its users were still seeing it and upvoting it.

            • underisk@lemmy.ml
              3·
              5 days ago

              Deletions have to propagate. Comments I deleted immediately after posting them still show up hours later for people on other instances. Archivers and crawlers have as many opportunities to record your deleted comment as there are lemmy instances federated to where you posted it.

  • the_swagmaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
    101·
    5 days ago

    Settinging asside the likelyhood that many personal stories there are fantacy. There are just fewer people on this platform and probably the many new people from the last little bit are still testing the waters.

    But primarily, I think nowadays people understand that if they put their data online anywhere, there is a chance someone could use it against them. Hence, people here are not doing it as much.

  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    Dear Penthouse Forum reddit, I’m a 20 year-old college student and I never thought I’d be writing to the Penthouse Forum reddit, 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.

  • Damionsipher@lemmy.world
    71·
    5 days ago

    Reddit didn’t used to be that way. Slowly over time it devolved into the same self-flagellation that happens more on “share my thought” type platforms like Twitter. I hope we are better able to manage our federations to keep that type of content at bay while remaining open enough to let people speak their truth in the face of oppression.