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Every time I create a Reddit account and try making a comment or a post I get banned instantly. Regardless of if I use a completely different device, email, ip. It's eerie.
They are actively harming human users in defense of their toxic mods & botters. Site is dying and they are the murderer.
As toxic and awful as reddit is, unlike SO, Quora, etc. I don't see what people will move onto? SO -> Github Issues, LLMs Quora -> Medium/Substack/SO/SE /., Digg, Quora -> Reddit -> ?? I'd love something to replace reddit, but I can't find another platform that is as open (e.g. don't need an account), has the diversity of topics. The political (and sub-reddit) echo chambers are ridiculous though.
IMO the community will fracture in two directions. Reddit's differentiator over Instragram, twitter etc. is that it's community based rather than individual based (with the algo making psuedo communities) I feel some users will leach into platforms that created even more walled gardens, i.e. Discord, or platforms that reduce the sense of walled gardens i.e. Twitter.
Instead of platforms expecting the user to inform who/what to follow, they infer from user behaviors.
Every time I create a Reddit account and try making a comment or a post I get banned instantly. Regardless of if I use a completely different device, email, ip. It's eerie.
It's pretty wild. Meanwhile bot farms just shuffle all identifiers. They are actively harming human users in defense of their toxic mods & botters. Site is dying and they are the murderer.
How do you let bots roam freely and yet you ban me?
I think Stack Overflow went dead because of AI specifically. The issues you mention just made that transition easier for people. Before AI, people had no choice but to suffer the toxic mods at Stack Overflow. Reddit isn't comparable, as AI has not replaced human opinion.
This was the "stage 4 cancer" point of no return. Statistically, it chugged on for a while, and then the dips happened and people just blamed AI, when it was really just a zombie past this point.
Quora is still going on strong despite AI.
Dudes be like "Reddit sucks". My brother in Christ, you made the sandwich.
For example there is an official Peloton subreddit. There is also one that’s looser and more free wheeling (OnePelotonSub). Some communities have circle jerk versions. Or ones that are more or less AI content friendly.
Stack exchange got stuck in a rigid, strict moderation regime. Which maybe makes sense for only one kind of community.
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Stack Overflow is dead because of AI. Devs can get quicker answers with less hassle with AI. Without AI there is no other option for amateur devs to get answers, so Stack Overflow would otherwise still be used. This isn't difficult logic.
Then explain the usage chart declining since ~2015? As I said in my original post, LLM was the final nail in the coffin. I'm not arguing they aren't related. I'm saying they SO was falling long before LLM's took over. This isn't difficult logic.
It got very political everywhere too, which I assume gets clicks and are a favourite of bot farms