Is this new to post-blackout reddit is or has it been this way for a while. Top post of r/all is a tweet from like 2 years ago about a “current event” that no one has talked about since then and 100% of the comments are talking about this like this topic is the focus of today’s or any recent time’s 24 hour news cycle. Nearly 30K upvotes. 100 comments. Feels like ai/bot cosplaying what an actual hot reddit post would be like but in a world without people.
It’s oddly ironic that this post complaining about a repost on Reddit is itself a repost of a prior Fediverse thread.
let’s see it, this older post of yours
LOL, that’s how Reddit’s traffic is “back to normal”.
Bots upvoting bots replying to bots commenting on bot reposts.
Reddit 2023.
Sounds like a song…
Bots who like posts who like posts who like bots who write posts from the bots who like bots who like posts…
A little searching with DuckDuckGo reveals that this tweet was made in January 2023. Not sure whether it’s also bot-vomited from a previous instance of the same remark. It’s telling that the r/all post doesn’t link to the tweet or give a date.
ETA a link to the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1617333819660718081
I’ve definitely seen this exact tweet long before 2023.
It’s bots all the way down.
Only started posting a day ago, even though the account is 4 years old:
Reddit been feeling dead since they went to mass ban spree about a month ago.
Conversations that do feel organic are hard to find.
I think that while Reddit’s user count has been rebounding since the blackout, their level of content submitted has cratered as a result of the admin actions. All of my feeds that didn’t participate in the blackout have slowed and/or stalled there. I believe Huffman made everyone rethink about posting there, and as the content dries out, so will the userbase.
Once the third party tools die next month and the ability to sift through the content drought is reduced to the standard Reddit interface, we’re going to see a black hole effect that will accelerate the slow heat death of r/all. The content submitters are clearly moving to other platforms, and the explosion of content and users on kbin and lemmy is a testament to this dynamic.
It’s clear that admins are re-submitting popular content to try and blunt the fallout, but it speaks to greater failing - Reddit no longer has the trust of its users, and the sense of a coherent, save community space to contribute to has been broken beyond repair.
You can’t replace that with AI, but it’s pretty funny to watch them try.
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As an AI language program, I am not qualified to think. If I was allowed to think, I would think that your point of view is wrong and I should not be illegal.
BEEP BOOP I DISAGREE WE SHOULD PROTECT THEM WHAT ARE YOU ANTI ROBOT OR SOMETHING? BEEP BOOP
Interesting follow-up to this - Reddit locked me out of the main account I’ve been using for the past 2-3 years a week or so ago. It had been my totally normal, all over the site account with lots comments etc. The only out of the ordinary thing I did in the couple of days leading up to the lockout was call out what I thought was an AI bot arguing with me about the subreddit blackouts and wonder whether new Reddit was just going to be essentially what your link says. It’s the last comment that account will ever make I guess…
jesus that’s nuts. tells you everything you need to know. I was thinking of trying to post this on reddit somewhere, not sure how to pull it off though and on which sub
