I clung to Reddit for too long even though it sucked because it was awesome years ago and it was a habit.
One I joined here I started laughing again. Lemmy is so fun and funny. Reddit is just full of bots that don’t know what humor is and petty people who forgot how to laugh.
What a lovely and useful graph
Data visualization is my passion
To infinity and beyond!
Good, they are absolute fucking garbage. I can’t wait for it to be a 100% bot echo chamber.
It basically already is
just heard spez wants to get rid of the R/popular on the front page and due to more “inclusive feed” probably something similar to what facebook does no doubt.
he’s probably butthurt because it doesn’t align with his politics
Maybe he changes it to
r/populist
What happened to r/place?
Fuck u/spez
I don’t know, but it’s been dead since 2023
That’s because everyone has finally read it, and now we can move on.
Not only that. An LLM read all of it and now we can just ask the LLM what it says.
Chatbots must be very upset by that
So upset
I feel like reddit is accidentally trying to speedrun dead internet theory.
I stopped using it when their quality contributor score shadowbanned me because I don’t post enough in the right subs.
My partner stopped using it for the same reason - account used every couple days for comments also shadowbanned out of no where.
Starting a new account means grinding for a month or two in subs that force you to spam each other with up votes before you can ever do anything other than post and ask the mods to approve your post manually.
I’m not sure there’s anything accidental in it.
its speedrunning to facebook2.0, fb is pratically just AI mostly. spez is currently is trying to get rid of r/popular, to have a more “curated feed” for people.
ChatGPT will be very disappointed to hear this, since most of reddit is just it talking to itself.
Globally, but in the US they’re #2. They’re behind Facebook for those kind of sites. They’re right behind Amazon.com at #5 for popular sites overall. Kind of freaky. It must be masked bots for both reddit and facebook, it can’t be real users if you’ve seen the most popular pages.
Of course it ain’t real users.
Reddit has had a major bot problem a decade ago and little has been done to mitigate it - beyond banning legitimate users who dared to be too loud about it.
I’ve moderated a relatively small sub, and pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts literally pulling an older post verbatim word for word, or maybe introducing a typo just to make detection harder…
Reddit’s response to the issue? “Hey, why don’t you pay us ~$25 a month just so you can continue using that open source automatic bot detection system we refuse to build into the site itself?”.
Possible. Maybe half of the time I’m given a link to a reddit post, it doesn’t let me even view the page because of ‘Network Security’.
lol I get the same shit half the time. Since I haven’t been logged in in years. And maybe I’m also on a vpn. I get their little security blocking walled garden shit. Half the time, when I do get through, it’s the wrong answer to what I’m looking for anyway. So I just hit the back button and move on. Do they think this will somehow entice me to sign up or log in, lol no.
I looked it up (was interested what has replaced it), am I looking at the wrong table?
wikipedia’s list of most visited websites
I’m also shocked to see that pornhub, xhamster, and xvideos are all 20+ entries down. Maybe the internet isn’t for porn, at least anymore. What is this world coming to? LITERALLY???
when chatbots overtake pornography
If you click on reddit on the similarweb website it shows rank 9
