Looks like a very interesting article. But the fact that it's behind a paywall sums up the other problem with the Internet in general: everything has become hyper-monetized and gated.
This is a bad take.
Paywalls are the norm of traditional journalism. People got so used to a bunch of spammy, ad-fed, click bait journalism and now many are not willing to pay for good articles.
I wish there was a better way to discuss these kinds of articles. There are sometimes gift links which are best for smaller group discussions... But nobody's found a model that isn't the mess that is ads that also allows "free viewing."
Eh, newspapers amd magazines had ads, they were just easier to skip
They also had subscriptions... And paywalls... You had to buy them from a newspaper stand or subscribe to have the paperboy deliver them...
Yes, I'm aware. That's an extension of what you said that I responded to.
See my response to sometime else about this a bit further down, if you like.
But I disagree it's a "bad take". I just didn't word it as clearly at I should have.
I hope Reddit dies soon. It's been a slow process happening since at least the API changes.
Recently, Reddit seems to have underwent a major vibe shift that has sucked out the last little bits of fun and creativity that still existed there.
Yeah, the vibe shift is extreme. You can attribute some of it to the general vibe shift everywhere - of course the vibes are getting back when the Trump administration is starting to wreck havoc everywhere. But Reddit is taking this to the extreme - if you take a look at the standard frontpage, there is so much senseless ragebait and screenshots of Tweets of stupid, unimportant people. Videos of random idiots for you to be infuriated over. The fun really has left Reddit - I still remember a time where you could see funny memes and really interesting stuff instead of this.
What’s Reddit? Is it like Lemmy?
“is Reddit being overrun by AI?” - listen to the narrated version of this article, generated by AI
I mean, AI narration is a genuinely amazing accessibility feature that has nothing to do with Dead Internet Theory but okay, fuck the blind.
At least they won't see it happening.
The APIcalypse didn't destroy reddit so I doubt this will. Quality of posts on the popular subreddits has gone down drastically and there's much more nazi propaganda there now though.
I'm curious what they'll do to the mods banning Twitter links
Reddit really lives on old content. Loads of useful advice from real people, helpful recommendations, and questions and answers make Reddit still relevant.
It's a different story for new content though. Videos and images have been reposted as hell, AskReddit now just revolves around asking the same set of questions, and a lot of niche communities have slowed down.
Yeah the destruction of the niche communities plus the Big Brother style moderation is what drove me away.
To put it in context, I was an active member of a gardening sub specific to my growing zone, and THAT got AI astroturfed to hell and back. Mods did nothing about it. So I say good riddance to the cesspool that reddit has devolved into.
Can you tell me what happened when AI AstroTurf the subreddit?
Which subreddit is it? Would love to see how it looks like now.
Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/OhioGardening/ Looks like they cleaned up a lot of the AI spam that was happening a few months ago, but they still let this one crazy guy post his fisheye lens youtube videos with updates about his garden. I'm all for it, but it was honestly annoying AF and most of his videos got downvoted. No one needs self promotion in a gardening sub.
I agree, specialized subs are really the only reason to use it. There are enough people on it that niche subjects have sufficient people to keep the communities going. Lemmy does not have that for all subjects (yet.)
Some Subreddits are really just reposts of old Twitter posts from several years ago with the same ragebait and the same answers every time.
ended, and yes, it was.
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Or you can try archive.ph to see if they have an archived version of the article.
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