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[–] 74 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Reddit isn't coming back from where they've taken themselves. Their crappy UI you can't opt out of, exclusive Reddit only app, algorithmic content recommendations force feeding rage bait for clicks. Account level bans on suspicion of having a previously banned account. Nothing fun about reddit anymore.

You can't even search a subreddit inside Reddit on a desktop PC anymore. They destroyed themselves.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I personally think they may be having an issue with AI content. As in slop is pushing into the platform and it makes it hard to be used as training data for other entities.

    Because other AI models are "good" at reddit style comments (pithy, self important, etc..etc..) those AI models will be used to making posts/comments there. Continuing the slop fest but making it worse for other LLMs. If that was going to be their revenue stream, it gets worse as time goes on.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    That's what I'm thinking as well. Surely someone near the top is recognizing how rapidly the slop is overtaking everything. Reddit's singular strength since the beginning is that it's human powered, and that the human mods (problematic as they are) do a better job of removing garbage than any automated system ever could.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    That's fucking awful. I expected them to intentify it but they're just breaking basic functions. That site's going downhill fast it's sad to see it go because I have fond memories but ultimately we have to move on. There's a brighter future ahead of us and it doesn't involve these awful corporations.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Google's AI summaries have reduced traffic to websites from the search results page

    Oh, that's just delicious. Talk about being hoisted by one's own petard.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Funny to think the summaries are often completely wrong because some asshat 7 years ago was wrong about something on Reddit (can you imagine?) but now the whole thing is infested with bots posting AI comments so now it's just AI comments feeding AI summaries

    It's an ouroboros of shit

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It is remarkable how simple the stock market really is:

    No AI = line goes down

    More AI = line goes up

    It is lucky noone is exploiting that simplicity.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    what would be telling is if u/SPEZ gets ousted and most of us get unbanned when they purge out the AI mods.

    Yeah, I know, "wishful thinking..."

    To be able to shitpost like good ol' days... sigh

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    I'm not banned, I just stopped going.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not banned, I deleted my account 6 years ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Same I don't even browse it. Imma get a lot of shit for this but I use LLMs to do all the finding for me, noai duckduckgo when I want real search, and I won't even click a Reddit link anymore. Useless. Haven't missed it tbh. Was a waste of time anyways.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    A good chunk of us are here because of Reddit crashouts, and this was the most similar platform. I want my account back, but purely on principle at this point.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Zero fucks about lost accounts..there’s communities I miss engaging. That’s it.

    Niche communities are all that I miss from Reddit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    my niche was the Minecraft subreddits, and that is sadly like 80% of the community right there. There's a Instance here, but it's like moving from NYC to East Bumfuck Long Island. (and don't even get me started on the Hermitcraft Subreddit)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I wear my account bans like a badge of honor. My only regret is not changing all my comments to say gibberish afterwards.

    A few of my accounts I was the end points for commonly googled questions.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Reddit is an AI training platform.

    IANAL but wouldn't banning anonymous users effectively give reddit exclusive legal rights to the content posted?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago*

    Them blocking old reddit finally got me to bother getting redirect working (To redlib) in URLCheck. Fuck em, the experience is actually better so far.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Probably because google can be held liable for lies that gemeni shits out in search results now.

    And 99% of googles searches came from reddit.

    And 99% of reddit is just bots and ai slop now.

    Not to mention reddit was the best platform to create a lie that google presents as fact. The subreddit trueanon convinced google that brace beldon could dunk on a regulation basketball hoop for months.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago