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What's up with all those crazy AskLemmy posts that have nothing to do with AskLemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by MissJinx@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I though they were all spam bots but I saw that some have real users

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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

it’s become more of a community for general, genuine questions, rather than one seeking subjective experience or thoughts.

I wasn't around back then but I'm pretty sure it was the same for AskReddit back in the days.

One of the most famous Reddit posts is an AskReddit question where the user somehow set their Reddit interface to Spanish and asked for tech support setting it back to English and everyone responded in Spanish which is hilarious.
Such a question would instantly be removed in modern AskReddit. Well at least it would have a few months ago before the apocalypse, I don't know about the current state of affairs.