Gotta agree with this. Reddit is a shadow of what it once was.
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felbane@lemmy.world 4 months ago
API access was only half the problem. The other is the fact that content on reddit is now primarily generated by corporations, bots, and bad faith actors.
Going there for specific threads (e.g. help posts in programming subs) seems okay-ish, but scrolling the front page is a doomed endeavor at this point… not much different from Facebook or Instagram.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 4 months ago
dogsnest@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can digg what you mean.
Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Digg is better than ever. If you haven’t been then in a while you should go check it out.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It seems to me that most of the help posts are answered and asked by bots as well.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Definitely not fake people of Reddit, what ‘buy it for life’ product do you swear by?”
Top answer:
"Le greetings, fellow Redditors! (The narwhal bacons, amirite???) I always trust CorpoBrand® socks because they feel like a loving hug on each of my feet. Once you try one on, you’ll never want to wear any other socks. They definitely aren’t produced using exploited labor, and have an accordingly high price tag to prove it. You’ll want to buy 20, but they’re so durable, you can take them to the grave! (Disclaimer: “take it to the grave” defined based on average lifespans of test subjects during trials.)
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I’m not sure this is a change. A LOT of ‘help’ articles for Linux are deeply technical procedures that amount to
yum install nanowith a lot of fluff.clearedtoland@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So it’s like cooking recipes but for programming. I hope they at least add some useless background info about their Nana using DOS or what have you.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Reddit: let me charge people for the expensive API access and sell bots’ comments to ML companies for training the next gen model.
Ironic
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s wild how true that is. Wilder still that it seems only veteran redditors even notice it.
I wonder how much of the engagement is authentic vs. farmed or not. So much old content is being dug up and presented as fresh or OC.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Out of curiosity, I flipped through a few days back, and it’s exactly that. Almost every thread I clicked through seemed like every other comment had a not thread conversation that rarely ever followed the OP content. So it’s just a bunch of AI chatbota talking to each other about nothing. That didn’t take long.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about fish.
db2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Toes@ani.social 4 months ago
Steve, the hungry fish, Gulps down an antelope whole, Nature’s strange wonder.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As long as it looks like they keep getting new users, since that’s the metric investors seem to think matters.