• 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.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    37·
    2 days ago

    It’s literally the entire internet, not just reddit. And yea that includes the Fediverse too. I’ve been noticing that a decent amount of communities on here have 1 or 2 main posters that are just bots that never have any comments. Not only that, but a lot of commenters I’ve noticed have brand new accounts that have copy/paste responses that extremely generic.

    At this point it’s safer to assume everyone is a bot, honestly. Especially comments you see on political posts.

    • happydoors@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been disappointed that the internet especially recently feels like a re-post machine with occasional Trump headlines. I was getting disappointed that people were really that cyclical and returning to old, barely funny stuff. This gives me weird hope that it’s not dumb people en-masse. Just dumb bots en-masse.

      • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        I wish more Lemmy communities took action against the 10-12 accounts who spam stale memes all day, but I think they are afraid of appearing too “dead” to outsiders.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
    9·
    2 days ago

    Covid wrecked Reddit. It like double or tripled in size.

    I would say there have been phases. I started using it around 2010. There was always an eternal September type complaining going on.

    Kony 2012 and Rand Paul were the weird millennial activism years. They were kinda fun. Then there was the Ellen Pao years where the site started regressing and actively pissing off the community. The_Donald really fucked things up by blatantly abusing the rules for years.

    After 2016 the site was getting too big and political (I mean, it was always political, but astroturfing took that election).

    Everything since the redesign has been bad. Covid growth folded into the Pre IPO years. They banned the API and my local subreddit lost its best moderators and it never recovered.

    And now it’s just garbage. Like that clickbait girl diaries sub is so clearly rage bait AI stories, it’s worse than relationship advice used to be.

  • CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 days ago

    I quit Reddit a long time ago but yes, especially during an election year, the internet just cyclically becomes nearly non-functional for about 6 months before the metrics dip and temporarily self-correct.

    I remember even during 2008 when bots weren’t nearly as bad and the internet was more than just 6 megasites, there was a pattern of infighting and political discourse that would always just run right up to the edge of destroying communities and then back off a little.

    I figure there’s some very human nature element to it and it’s pretty depressing but I always manage to find new hobbies and people during these tumes because everyone if getting sick of their comfort zones being raided and trying to find where the sane people are. Just hang in there, until there’s some sort of regulation or the technocracy that runs the internet is somehow broken you just have to tread water and keep true to your own sense of ‘normal’.

    Or go camping. Camping is good.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    7·
    2 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.