• pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    No, Reddit ruined Reddit for everyone. The AI slops are simply what replace the people who left.

    • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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      1 day ago

      This is key.

      If there weren’t bots…Reddit would make its own bots. Reddit dances a fine line of allowing the population to be a certain proportion of bots because they increase real engagement by picking fights with its real users, as well as creating never-ending “content” for people to read and vote on. They only ban bots when real users notice they are bots - which is less and less frequently - even though Reddit has the tools and information to ban them long before that point.

      Reddit could easy eliminate almost all of them, but that would be expensive and they’d lose real users as a result.

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        19 hours ago

        Exactly. This is like blaming rats and cockroaches for dirty town.

        No, they won’t be there (as much) in a cleaner town.

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      2 days ago

      The day they got rid of reddit gold and started cash grabbing hard was the day the writing was on the wall.

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        2 days ago

        They got rid of gold?? When?? I left reddot and came to Lemmy in the third-party apps exodus and haven’t even looked back

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          13 hours ago

          Ages ago - they tried to make it all these flairs and sparkles and whatever. Maybe it’s back lately?

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          Oh, I’ve looked back. It’s hard not to rubberneck at such a horrendous train wreck. Especially when I was just a passenger on that very train.

          I left reddit during the great API massacre as well, then I went back to only be taken out by the great Trump massacre of '24 where they banned a huge chuck of the community that had any anti-trump sentiments in their profile history…because Trump threatened them.

          Now I have been banned 6 more times, just by AI detecting language it doesn’t like and its catalogue of dislike only continues to grow.

          They pretend that humans are reviewing ban appeals, it is clear that they are not. The AI is banning more people than they could possibly keep up with. Now, more often than not, there is no reply to ban appeals whatsoever.

          Spez is a spineless coward who threw the reddit community overboard a long time ago and continues to do so whenever it suits him. Reddit exists only to shit money for him now.

          It has been left twisted and corrupted in favor of the conquest for money and controlling public opinion

          I’ll be back to fight the good fight just as soon as I can create a new account and switch VPNs

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, also the people. The comment sections are cancer. Lame jokes from dickheads that don’t add anything.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, after reading the article, it was like, oh, so the same fake stories but actually grammar corrected?

      Also, most people who sre like “i have this tells tl detect AI” would not know at all whether something is AI or not lol