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It kept getting worse with the bot mods suspend people for innocent things since no one with critical thinking ability confirmed if posts were in fact bad. They reduced visibility to all the nazi raids and violence after the huge support for Minneapolis and other important news. Suppression requested by the same party to hide their crimes. You know which sub this poem is about lol.
Liberals invade,
Their precious piece of shit sub,
They always suspect
Something I noticed for the past year are topics following the format: “Now that AI has replaced X skill … and Y … what is your opinion”. Or “I’ve been doing all my programming with AI and it works perfectly, and is stressing me out. What is your opinion”
I did some digging and almost all those accounts are from a certain country or two famous for hosting clickfarms some years ago. So… I guess AI companies are following the same strategy
I am currently facing issues with reddit man. I am not able to put more than one comment. It’s showing and issue after that is it just me or does anyone else also face it? If yes then please provide me solution for this or if u have an decent karma account and willing to sell at decent price let me know
“ChatGPT chooses not to eat where it already shat”
or eat where the communal toilet is.
not from googles gemini summaries.
The content has taken a nosedive in the last three months - just take a look at /r/all and you’ll see duplicate postings appearing on the feed within the first 100 posts.
The quality of the conversation has plummeted as well. Most comments are one or two sentences, and usually just reaction posts. You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.
It’s no longer a discussion forum. It’s a reaction machine, pushing a narrative that has been stripped of anything original that could be disruptive to the status quo… in other words, stripped of the very humanity that made it valuable for ChatGPT in the first place.
If you’ve been at Reddit for a while, you recognize all those blantant bot-driven reposts. It’s really something. The same old screenshot of some tweet being reposted hundreds of times. The same questions in /r/askreddit with the same old answers. Memes that are repeating on a fixed schedule. The same ragebait content enraging the second generation of a family.
they also lost a ton of traffic i believe too, AI slop posting and reposting, prop bots, and your spammers have mostly taken over most subs.
im betting those brief comments you mentioned are just the spammers "warming up thier accounts"as to not get banned by reddit filters, they dont contribute anymore than that. im in another forum where they discuss how to warm up thier accounts this way. also propaganda bots do it too.
i to noticed multiple post of the same thing on the front page, if its political or a news worthy, it would be up to 4-5 times on the front page alone, also likely by the same poster. and then alot of the"interesting type subs" are also double/triple posting some clearly AI generated videos.
You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.
That just sounds like the typical askreddit comment section for the past decade, ngl
Yeah, I thought the same thing as well. I’ve got no doubt it’s gotten worse, but the place was never known for originality.
I’ve noticed the same thing. I was a long time user of Reddit. Practically obsessed over it at times. But after noticing how toxic and just plain stupid it’s gotten lately, I’ve almost completely left it. I don’t even have an account anymore. I think the final straw for me was a video of a kid allegedly being a little shit towards an older woman, so this woman’s husband started hitting the kid. And then another guy came and slapped the kid. And the majority of commenters were on the side of the adults hitting a child clearly under 12 years old. No use being on it anymore when it’s clearly just a rage machine now.
and the subs having obviously AI generated videos, like the dashcam sub, some of the cat/animals subs. suddenly girls and guys dinner diary(a) replaced the AITA/aitah subs.
“For communicators, Reddit’s value is in the real conversations that people are having about your brand today, not where it surfaces tomorrow,” said Adam Collins, Reddit’s chief communications officer.
Reddit defining its platform as a place for consumers to discuss brands speaks volumes about its motives.
“I bought a brand today!”
“Woah! So did I!”
“I’m so happy this brand has made my life!”
“Yeah! So it has mine!”
Fucking riveting stuff there.
Compounded by it being mostly bots doing that.
I mean, you’re talking about Reddit, which is a brand, in this comment.
Like, people talk about things, and a lot of things have brands.
It’s just a bit two-faced and dishonest for Reddit to be marketing itself to users as a platform for genuine discussion while in actuality being a marketing platform for brands.
If more Redditors realized what Reddit has become, they might be more willing to join a platform without the centralized control that enables manipulation.
fucking s&p 500 stock. What are they expecting
With enough users on the Fediverse, the astroturfing will come. It’s not really inherently resistant to brand placements etc. It’s just not big enough to get corporate attention.
Astroturfing will come, but the platform itself can’t as easily be designed to enable it with preferential algorithms and tracking. If an instance injects ads into its frontend, users can easily switch instances or use an alternative frontend or app; if a specific instance is known to host promotional posts, it can be easily defederated or otherwise blocked.
The same cannot be said for blocking ads or tracking on Reddit, particularly for mobile users.
I mean, it kinda is.
Lemmy is setup in a way that it totally crumbles at around 100-200k active users. The “every instance replicates almost everything while being legally liable if it doesn’t correctly moderate everything” means that it’s close to impossible to run a Lemmy instance if there’s too many people on the platform.
Reddit has more than one billion accounts and hundreds of millions of active users.
Lemmy physically cannot sustain anything near those numbers. Thus it’s kinda hard-coded to prevent it from getting serious astroturfing, for better and for worse.
For comparison: Both the LTT forum and the crackberry forum have more total and more active users than all of Lemmy combined.
he means people making content by arguing/responds with BOTS who argue/responds with users and other bots.
remember the silence brand crab? pepperidge farms remembers…
remember they had a reddit layout for mobile but they killed it for the app. i think it was called ireddit.
I don’t understand what the plan is. Becoming irrelevant and making it hard for users to access your site sounds like a losing play.
I think they got all they needed from us. It doesn’t matter what they do now. They sold years of conversations and information.
In the long term. In the short term, spez makes a lot of money.
Their moat is people not being arsed to make an account on a service that’s not actively hostile to its users.
they want to follow META and tiktoks footsteps.
Probably because the AI has no concept of satire or sarcasm, and will tell people to put glue on pizza because someone was a smartass on Reddit.
Been a part of reddit since 2006 and as much as it pains to see something that I visited for 2 decades to go away, it needs to be put to pasture because of spez.
Meh. I started on usenet. Reddit had some fun little cultural things, but I just like yakking online in forums; not gonna particularly miss it.
the first major reddit drama was '16-17, and who was elected at that time. and when the gop were forcing subs to be shutdown. and then the first sweep of political based bans started which got worst over time, because reddit was developing more and more sensitive ways to detect spam/bots, and even innuendos will catch you a ban. and then starting from the last election to early last year, when they massive purged most user accounts. which led them to now require logins to SCOUR for more AI data.
GEO gurus spent months telling brands to get on Reddit because ChatGPT loves it. Now citations drop 86% and suddenly the strategy is diversify. Amazing how quickly a growth hack becomes timeless marketing wisdom once the algorithm stops cooperating. Maybe building useful, credible information was the strategy all along. 🤷
also googles gemini, and other AI is finding reddit less useful as the site is taken over by AI themselves/and botters, also because they ban people who would contribute with multiple accounts.
Ultimately, though, Google is all about something else: Google is currently promoting YouTube in its AI Overviews and on Gemini in general. So, for a change, it’s promoting its own service rather than, say, Reddit.
Advertising on reddit was always a dumb move from the get go. They had to disable comments on ads because they didn’t want people actually discussing products openly and freely. It was such a farce.
I’m glad I did my part and tainted the water supply by shit posting and shit commenting for years.
Fuck em!
