• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Right?

    In-between comments are ads.

    Under every post is a recommendation for other subreddits where the last update was 2-3 weeks ago.

    Subreddits with clear bait clog up the front page, and no filters to remove them.

    Top comments are jokes and memes.

    It’s a real shit experience on Reddit right now.

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      10 months ago

      They really leaned hard into the fraud strategy, hoping to IPO in 2023 and run with the money.

      It got to the point where the entire front page was just bots reposting the greatest hits, with the comments section literally being bots reposting comments from the first time it was posted. There were entire comment chains of bots just having reposted conversations with each other.

      The release of LLM APIs was the last straw, now even the conservatives are jumping ship because it was just a bunch of fascist liars lying to each other. And if there is one thing conservatives hate, it’s being around other conservatives.

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      10 months ago

      Some of those issues went over here pretty quick too.

      I feel we have a lot of the faux intellectual crowd who thought 5-10 years ago they were better than other for using reddit.

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        10 months ago

        Nonsense. Most of us thought that at least 10 years ago. Reddit didn’t start going downhill hard until the 2016 US primaries, when /r/conspiracy went from semi-interesting headcannon to full on Trump worship over the span of a week. Then we realized what we were in for but it was like watching a car crash into a dumpster fire.

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            10 months ago

            Dude the Donald was hilarious until it wasn’t anymore so much great shit posting

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            10 months ago

            The death knell of the site was when they quarantined TD and all the crazies started migrating into the other places of reddit. After it became a cult TD pulled people onto the site who had no other reason to be there. All the people long term redditors were trying to avoid by not using facebook were now all over the site