most of upvoted content on reddit now is bots, shills and feds…
genuine conversation will get downvoted and drop to the bottom while bad faith actors push their agenda.
and yet most people still don’t appear to spot this shit.
That’s because good subs with proper moderation do not have this issue. Just filter out the worthless default subs and all the neo subs.
Is there any better alternative to /r/CasualConversation? Genuinely asking, sometimes I take inspiration from them for !casualconversation@lemm.ee
Not fair, I’m off shift right now.
On an unrelated note, let me take a video of you saying you’re going to kill the president.
Anyway I thought fed strategy was very legal totally-not-entrapment stuff on 4chan but I suppose reddit’s big enough they should be there too. Hopefully for CSAM & foreign bot research, not sex work & steroids.
Probably an odd take, but this is actually something I sort of like about this timeline.
I keep getting this amusing visual image of actual people tiptoing away and giggling and shushing each other, as somewhere in the background, the site they used to be on is nothing but corporations showing ads to bots posting to bots.
It’s not only that - it’s also Huffman’s golden parachute package.
The Reddit we knew is dead - long live the Fediverse.
If Huffman managed to lose his golden parachute, I would feel much better about the reality that we’re living through.
Yeah it’s a room full of bots talking to bots while other bots try to scam bots into paying other bots. It’s recursive botshit.
Theory of Reddit in 2024 is becoming surrealistic to watch:
The bot problem is not even in its final form. It’s probably way worse already, as they aren’t detecting all pieces of bot content, only the blatantly obvious ones. And eventually the mods are going to say “you know what… fuck it, too much effort” and simply leave the bots alone, leading to a further increase of bot activity, in a vicious circle.
People should stop linking to reddit. Use an archived version. More websites linking to reddit is why they’re at the top of search results. It’s called “domain authority”.
