The site has become a reservoir of humanity on the web. Now it, too, is turning to AI.
  • djsoren19 ( djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English
    10·
    2 years ago

    It’s really bad. I still check-in on my niche subreddits from time to time, but most of them are down to 1 or 2 mods. They’ve also changed the default sorting from Hot to Best, which mostly seems like a way to cover-up the fewer original posts and discussions going up. The whole site is a shell of its former self.

  • onlinepersona ( onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English
    10·
    2 years ago

    🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • Obelix ( Obelix@feddit.org ) English
      17·
      2 years ago

      I disagree - I was on Reddit since before the Digg exodus, so I may or may not know a few things. There was a big mood shift after the mod strike. It really shook the page - some subreddits never “recovered”. Some that were popular before are still in a kind of lockdown. Some have new mods which are not doing a really great job. There were a few that really grew. But overall, Reddit lost a lot. People did delete decades of useful advice. Regular users left. The new ones are … different. In many cases mobile users that kind of seem to use Reddit as a chat platform, but they are not posting really insightful comments. Some are indistingushable from bots. Many are bots. Some mods have just given up and gave up moderating popular subreddits, which are now drowning in repost bost. There are bots replicating whole threads under reposts. Many subreddits are just old screenshots from Twitter. It’s wild - but it is hollow. And that was different a few years back.

      • bizarroland ( bizarroland@fedia.io ) 
        7·
        2 years ago

        Reddit has become a zombie website.

        All of the cool people left and the only people that are still hanging out are the people who don’t know any better and the people who are there to try to market themselves as some kind of brand.

      • SwizzleStick ( swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ) English
        4·
        2 years ago

        It’s getting hard to remember when Reddit was just that little weird link sharing icon on articles that few people (relatively speaking for the time) bothered with. Digg shitting the bed gave Reddit the push it needed to become recognisable.

        Funny now that Digg exists solely as a ‘frontpage’ full of clickbait titles and a ‘community’ made entirely of comment boxes. Yet it perseveres in its own little corner.

        Now we have Reddit in the place of Digg and the fediverse in the place of Reddit - history really does repeat itself.

    • RagnarokOnline ( RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ) English
      11·
      2 years ago

      I was a Reddit refugee.

      A year or so into Lemmy and I don’t want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view “All” every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.

      No other social media or content aggregators besides those.

    • nossaquesapao ( nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ) English
      5·
      2 years ago

      You’re probably right. I can’t speak for the entire world, but at least in my country, reddit’s popularity (according to similarweb data, not my own perception) has only been growing since the api thing. People simply don’t care or come with the “but the communities I like are here” argument. I tried to stay for a while and promote lemmy, but people even got angry about it. They made it clear they don’t like lemmy at all, that I was being inconvenient, and aren’t willing to move. It was so funny to see them speaking ill of the social networks ran by “fascist ceos” as if reddit was any different.

      It’s funny to see you so downvoted. Maybe people around here are in denial?

    • SwizzleStick ( swizzlestick@lemmy.zip ) English
      2·
      2 years ago

      Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever.

      The users are the product, and they banked on having enough newer, more impressionable users to make up for the ones they would lose. It was a good gamble that binned many ‘savvy’ users that cut into their bottom line with adblockers and 3rd party apps.

      Dollars to doughnuts that all the content that was ‘publicly’ lost was actually retained and continues to be a free resource for them. Very Land O’Lakes. Kept the land (content). Got rid of the Indian (users).

      Now they have a bunch of oblivious users happily, or at least tolerably, being harvested and fed slop by their dogshit app. Based on that, I think this ‘AI’ thing of theirs going to do well for them.