What happened to reddit? There are so many bots now.

[RemyR]

Social media in general fucking sucks these days

 

[Versez]

Social media in general fucking sucks these days

Its far from being the social medias of the beginning of the 2000s-2010s. Now its mostly trash contents with influencers and rage-bait content.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

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[USA!USA!]

I mean that is X too.

They infect all social media like a cancer.

 

[Stoic1]

AI is great, huh? Improving our lives substantially, huh? Thank God for all these new data centers, huh? All this goodness is taking massive amounts of electricity and cooling but totally worth it, eh?

 

[Confucamus]

About 95% of it is absolute crap propaganda. It gets really bad when elections/midterms are coming up. Subredditas that used to be really interesting, like r/pics, are just leftist propaganda now. There are some good subreddits left though. I frequent ones for gaming and true crime that avoid all that other nonsense.

 

[NickNick]

Every portion of the internet that can be exploited with bots is flooded with them, it isn't exclusive to reddit. Dedicated forums like Sherdog and others for niche hobbies seem pretty safe still, but thats probably only because there is nothing to gain from having bots here.

 

[Bballfan123]

but I just stumbled upon a reddit post that where all the comments were just bots downvoting the most logical response. It wasn't political, it was just a deliberate attempt to shut down the conversation, because it wasn't in line with the ideology of way of thinking of the mods of the subreddit.

-what was the thread

 

[High Test With da Best]

The only way to prove we're not bots is to admit something so embarrassing that it must be human.

... In order to last longer during sex I used to think of something non sexual, like basketball.

Now I can't watch basketball without getting a huge boner...

Damn! Maybe Jon Jones has a midget porn hobby which would explain why he got sprung when Hasbulla was pillow-wrestling with him on the couch in that recent video haahahhaa!

 

[John Stockton]

I'm trying to use it less, though sometimes I still doomscroll out of habit. So many comments seem like copy paste jobs (I think that's where the botting comes in) and dissenting opinions get downvoted into the ground even if the points are being made in good faith. It's a left wing echo chamber, and I say this as someone who is extremely liberal.

The only subreddits still worth going to are centered around niche interests with small, but active, communities.

 

[Belaya Smert]

but I just stumbled upon a reddit post that where all the comments were just bots downvoting the most logical response. It wasn't political, it was just a deliberate attempt to shut down the conversation, because it wasn't in line with the ideology of way of thinking of the mods of the subreddit.

-what was the thread

How many responses to your comments are already deleted when you hit reply?

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Clearly Sherdog is superior

 

[Ladder Master]

At what point is the social media worth it, if you can't tell if you are interacting with humans or some varying combination
of bots vs real poster/contributors? 90%/10% 20%/80% 35%/65%

 

[RoastBeast]

I only use reddit if it comes up in a google search for something I'm researching.

I think I used to look at boobies on there until they required a login, so now I don't look at boobies on there anymore.