Actually, I noticed in a subreddit where some commenters were labelled '1% commenter'. This gives me a completely new picture, where the '1% commenters' are given the same usual narratives on the same topics over and over. I believe that these people are real, not shit-posting, and are genuinely passionate about the topics. Nevertheless, reading the non 1% comments is also interesting.
Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls
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#62I occasionally browse Reddit (I don't have an account), but I think I knew that it was going bad back when all those subreddits were protesting. Back then, it wasn't because of bots, but I did think that most websites going through enshittification will eventually be filled with bots. I did find https://discuit.net to be a good alternative, as well as Lemmy.
reddit alts per ai: 1. Lemmy (Lemmy.ml or other instances): ◦ Federated: Lemmy operates on a decentralized model, similar to Mastodon (in the Twitter alternative space). This means that there is no single governing body—each instance is moderated independently. ◦ Focus on Communities: It focuses on subcommunities where niche interests can thrive without corporate interference. Lemmy also has a strong commitment to fr…
mastodon is a fediverse client
good to see slop propagate though
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#63Reddit is now only useful as data for AI training.
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#67i really miss /r/sas
the sas forums are great, but there were always lost nuggets of code you'd come across that made your day when you were stuck
i still browse the site but stick to a small handful of niche subs
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if you know someone you can get out of shit. We're in a privilege-based society.
Well, that's usually the case with everything, sadly. The only way I know how to get Meta accounts back is generally to pay an employee off to put a ticket in. I don't have a banned account with Reddit (fortunately), but I know those who have had bad experiences, so I thought it was worth bringing up.
Meta sometimes responds to correspondence sent to their Oversight Board, c/c a copy to office of the CEO with your ID on the hacker way address.
This worked (this year) to restore an account of mine that was locked for over 8 years that none of their systems could or would review or resolve. They never replied to the letter, they just silently unlocked it and flagged my profile as verified.
I never received any warning or any reason for the suspension. I have a common name but am not impersonating anybody.
It ended up being a waste of time . I can no longer see friends or relatives or co workers. It’s all “for you” spam and I deleted it of my own accord after a week anyway.
On topic: yes the Overton window either moved a LOT on Reddit or they’re overwhelmed or don’t care anymore. Purely anecdotal in favor of a window shift; there are a lot of comments in /r/musked that would have gotten you a wide reaching if not site wide ban just a year ago (and still get you bans from /r/elonmusk and /r/teslamotors even if you’ve never posted there.) but for , I think, obvious reasons it’s almost impossible to take it “too far” on that subject or say anything harsh enough about that company or its owner on Reddit now.
Many examples of people or subjects that were untouchable and met with great force just a year or two ago that are fair game now. While probably not against the rules on HN, I don’t want to get into it. I stuck with a safer , mostly not political one.
Left-on-left criticism of the DNC is also apparently wide open now that the election is over. It would have been moderated or banned just two or three months ago. Not only does nobody care , but sometimes it’s even heavily upvoted.
I’m only in the USA for work and have no opinion on this but it’s hard not to notice it.
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#69the entire internet taken over by bots since last two years. gen-z still part of human genome but no different than robots in conversational level.
It does feel like a large shift took place about 2-5 years ago.
Yeah I'm going into crazy conspiracy territory with this kind of, but with the advent of LLMs it would not surprise me if a large portion of social media users are false personas built by machine generated comments over time that seem maybe human. You get enough of these together pushing the same ideas and it almost begins to feel like community consensus.
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#70Each sub-Reddit is different. Some are terrible, some are great. I just leave the bad ones.