I wouldn’t be shocked if it was only 15% that isn’t corporate swill. Even the reasonable sounding comments can just be a bot karma farming by reposting previously popular stuff. At it’s peak, Reddit was a chaotic bazaar of experts and wannabees building actual good communities. You could find the kind of researched, in-depth info no Google search would ever unearth again. Now Reddit is clearly riding in the same boat as MySpace and others, just in it’s own stupid extra-Spezy way.
wonder how much of the bots are OF spammers, or link farmers. i know they use a ton of accounts to spam, after they mostly warmed up those accounts, i was on another forum how they were doing it to earn money. the propaganda bot farms dont care about evading reddits filter, so they spam, dump the account and create a new one, rinse and repeat.
I hate reddit like any warm blooded fediverse fan but I cannot deny that if you wanna talk about, say, some obscure punk band’s third record released in 2003 thats where you gotta go
In some pockets yes, but travelling through reddit to find those pockets is like wandering through a sandcastle falling into the sea to find the handful of luxurious dry pristine rooms left.
The nicer the rooms are the sadder it makes you to know it is all for naught and is being washed away in front of your very eyes.
I used to go to reddit often for niche information, these days it barely feels worth the trouble even when there is no alternative source for the information anymore/yet.
Some of those good fan subs got captured by industry insiders in the meantime too and are as bad as the flyers and search results. Companies excel at making the online as shit as the IRL.
Those pages never hit the front page anymore and get less activity over time, app wants you to not look at the communities you are subed to.c shows you anything else, custom feeds works but its a hassle, there isn’t really an alternative
True, but to me that indicates the people enshittifying Reddit to pump and dump it for short term profit did a good job of sowing enough confusion and distrust that it obscured all the bots pouring in. They leaned into a culture of fakeness and inhumanness in developing Reddit as a for-profit entity.
Way to make me nauseous with that thought lol, I doubt actual reddit users are as brain dead as all the bots and corporate shilling makes them look however…
it seems some of the subs, is finally NOTICING reddits been deleting, banning people in such large numbers they are complaining about. it seems reddits new tactic is unilaterally deleting a comment with out mod consent.
This is before LLMs (2022 is the Internet LLMpocalypse) so I imagine this number has increased significantly.
Search Engines have been nearly completely obliterated by AI SEO, I find it hard to believe that social media manipulation hasn’t exploded just as much. It’s just more subtle.
As the study that the author refers to does not seem to exist and he links to a study that does not justify any of the statistical claims of the article, the number is likely fake.
Plot twist: this is just corporate shilling, too, trying to convince us it’s only 15%…
I know you are kidding but “15% are corporate shills” is verrrry generous to reddit in my experience. Reddit is a dead husk.
I’d be genuinely shocked if it was less than 50%.
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I wouldn’t be shocked if it was only 15% that isn’t corporate swill. Even the reasonable sounding comments can just be a bot karma farming by reposting previously popular stuff. At it’s peak, Reddit was a chaotic bazaar of experts and wannabees building actual good communities. You could find the kind of researched, in-depth info no Google search would ever unearth again. Now Reddit is clearly riding in the same boat as MySpace and others, just in it’s own stupid extra-Spezy way.
wonder how much of the bots are OF spammers, or link farmers. i know they use a ton of accounts to spam, after they mostly warmed up those accounts, i was on another forum how they were doing it to earn money. the propaganda bot farms dont care about evading reddits filter, so they spam, dump the account and create a new one, rinse and repeat.
the other 35% is russian troll farm bots.
I hate reddit like any warm blooded fediverse fan but I cannot deny that if you wanna talk about, say, some obscure punk band’s third record released in 2003 thats where you gotta go
In some pockets yes, but travelling through reddit to find those pockets is like wandering through a sandcastle falling into the sea to find the handful of luxurious dry pristine rooms left.
The nicer the rooms are the sadder it makes you to know it is all for naught and is being washed away in front of your very eyes.
I used to go to reddit often for niche information, these days it barely feels worth the trouble even when there is no alternative source for the information anymore/yet.
Some of those good fan subs got captured by industry insiders in the meantime too and are as bad as the flyers and search results. Companies excel at making the online as shit as the IRL.
I had to make one to prepare for upcoming trip. Fediverse doesn’t have enough volume for such things.
Those pages never hit the front page anymore and get less activity over time, app wants you to not look at the communities you are subed to.c shows you anything else, custom feeds works but its a hassle, there isn’t really an alternative
Same exact jokes made by ~30 day old accounts, that have been copy and pasted from older reposts.
Eh, people over at Reddit have some serious hair triggers on accusing someone of being a shill. I’ve been accused dozens of times.
True, but to me that indicates the people enshittifying Reddit to pump and dump it for short term profit did a good job of sowing enough confusion and distrust that it obscured all the bots pouring in. They leaned into a culture of fakeness and inhumanness in developing Reddit as a for-profit entity.
its a death knell ever since SPEZ made reddit public.
You are the reason I have a sludge hammer collection though.
i wouldnt be surprised if it was bots doing it, they often “argue” with other bots to drum up drama.
Idk, reddit has always had a fairly strong libertarian undercurrent. Wouldn’t surprise me in the corporate glazing is genuine.
Way to make me nauseous with that thought lol, I doubt actual reddit users are as brain dead as all the bots and corporate shilling makes them look however…
it seems some of the subs, is finally NOTICING reddits been deleting, banning people in such large numbers they are complaining about. it seems reddits new tactic is unilaterally deleting a comment with out mod consent.
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That’s very different from 15% of all reddit content being that.
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This is before LLMs (2022 is the Internet LLMpocalypse) so I imagine this number has increased significantly.
Search Engines have been nearly completely obliterated by AI SEO, I find it hard to believe that social media manipulation hasn’t exploded just as much. It’s just more subtle.
Nice one!
Just noting that the links inside the article seem to be wrong: https://lemmy.world/post/38174729/20270142
As the study that the author refers to does not seem to exist and he links to a study that does not justify any of the statistical claims of the article, the number is likely fake.