• The recommended subreddits are all just repost farms where people pretend not to get the joke or repost videos with less context each time
  • The games they put into the mobile view are fun for about 1 play but now they are half my feed
  • my local subreddit is so obviously being astroturfed in preparation for November that you normal users are calling it out

It seems like on all fronts Reddit is getting so much worse.

But is it getting worse faster or is it just because I have a new account and I took the bait and interacted with dumb features?

I got banned by AI about a month ago, being the sucker that I am, I created a new account, so I’m not 100% if this is the experience new redditors get/want or if it’s being pushed on everyone.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    Any platform that

    1. Allows users to upload content and
    2. Whose revenue is tied to engagement

    Will inevitably become overrun with slop. The large platforms have had human slop on them for years, AI is only speeding it up.

    What protects the Fediverse is that instance owners have no financial incentive for growth because every piece of content, every federated instance increases their hosting costs. And any instance that somehow becomes too big to properly moderate will quickly become mass de-federated form.