It has been for a long time.
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The theory of the empty internet is looming. ;)
Honestly though. No one really cared about the original post anyways. The comments are the actual content.
AskReddit is just simple mindless enjoyment to pass the time, nothing wrong with that.
AskReddit was a junk pit anyway, so it would not be a loss, even if it wasn't reddit.
No offence to anyone here but fuck Reddit!
So.... I could sell my Reddit Account? 10 Years 20K+ Karma, any bids?
/s
I'll give you one up vote.
the average redditor will still insist on appending "Reddit" onto Google searches since it "lets them see real human opinions" only because they can't discern obvious botting from genuine human interactions
A lot of the botting is just copy and pasting previous actual human topics and comments though, so they're not really wrong.
Actual bot created content is pretty boring, and never "contributes" in a way that would make for a useful Google result. Your Google result may be a bot's comment, but if that comment is answering a question of some kind there's a 99% chance the comment was originally written by a human.
The content of bots (the desired ones) is at least not banned or removed by anyone. For example, I feel socially excluded by the Reddit and para-Reddit communities because whenever I write something a bit more controversial, it immediately ends up in the trash.
copying and pasting a comment is still less genuine, since that promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a "widely held" opinion rather than a single person's opinion copied a dozen times.
promotes stale and outdated information. It can also create the false idea of a “widely held” opinion
Clue
Well, obviously. But I don't give a shit about that when I just want a solution to a problem.
A lot of the site feels like it’s been overrun by bots. The more niche communities seem to still be pretty good (and I do still enjoy engaging in them). But the subs like ask Reddit, Aita and the relationships one? Yea, it all feels like bs.
I think it's due to the fact that a lot of mods left and the API changes made it harder to auto moderate subs.
I stay away from any big subs now. The smaller stuff that tends to have 2 to 15 posts a day (like game specific subs) feel like they did before. Although I really feel a lot of those are going to discord as well.
Yea same. Now that you mention that, gaming really is one of the only reasons I’m on there anymore. Destiny for example, still has a pretty active sub. But to your point, the couple discord groups I’ve joined over the past couple years are way better.
If only the niche communities over here were a bit more active. For instance, I've been hyperfixating on Tamagotchi, but there isn't a Tamagotchi community here yet :(
Create one, friend! It'll start off slow, but it may build up.
for real!! im also currently fixated on tamagotchis and the tamagotchi sub is the only active community i could find, im pretty sure tamatalk has been dead for a while :[
You should make one!
I'd like to, but I've never really run a community before and I need some pointers 😓
The worst part is that they're all really fucking bland questions. The shit you'd see on Facebook.
Some may have been copied directly from Facebook since most bot posts copy from ones humans have made before.
They're engagement fodder designed to elicit human responses to provide a larger training dataset for future LLMs. That and to drive up Reddit usage and engagement numbers.
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