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Took a peek on Reddit, it really boggles my mind how oblivious and obedient people are. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I decided to take a peek at Reddit to see what kind of activity is happening, a good handful of the subreddits I am subscribed to are still super active with posts and commenters.

There's quite a few news articles on the front page regarding Spez and the blackouts, I am surprised those articles are even still up for people to see.

The comment section is filled with people saying how they should just kick the mods out of the dark Reddit's and take over, ofcourse these posts are heavily upvoted...

Perhaps there is some AI activity going on, I mean it's kind of easy to do in this day and age. You just prompt an army of AI bots to defend Reddit, and try to keep users engaged.

I am so happy I found Lemmy, and I am so happy that there is a comfortable level of activity. Sure it's only a small fraction of what Reddit is activity wise, but it's so much more hearty and welcoming.

Reddit has just turned into one big toxic mess. Lemmy reminds me of what Reddit used to be 10 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I noticed earlier today that all the top posts were reposts of previous top posts on each main sub.

Like they literally just reposted all the top posts of all time.

That's the kind of thing that is possible when they own it all.

Lots and lots of gold too. Has anyone ever bought it? I have my doubts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I feel that Reddit was pretty underhanded, I doubt that they're using AI to fake content to keep people on the site 'cause (a) people would catch on pretty fast by looking at the history of the account and (b) running LLMs probably cost more than the earned advertising revenue.

What's more likely is that people/bots have always been reposting for karma a while

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think they've used AI to do anything or even create fake content. They just reposted things that are already known to be popular, so that new users will experience good content.

Or maybe if Reddit didn't do it, then it's just karmabots taking the front-page, because there is no good OC to beat them.

Personally I think Spez and his staff are currently glued to the screen and handing out votes and gold for whatever isn't about the protest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This happened long ago. Bots would repost frontpage content that'd past the year-long wait to avoid repost detection. Gif subs would be very quiet without that kind of content being recycled