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Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations (www.axios.com)
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[-] Alexfire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It kept getting worse with the bot mods suspend people for innocent things since no one with critical thinking ability confirmed if posts were in fact bad. They reduced visibility to all the nazi raids and violence after the huge support for Minneapolis and other important news. Suppression requested by the same party to hide their crimes. You know which sub this poem is about lol.

Liberals invade,

Their precious piece of shit sub,

They always suspect

[-] son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

Something I noticed for the past year are topics following the format: "Now that AI has replaced X skill ... and Y ... what is your opinion". Or "I've been doing all my programming with AI and it works perfectly, and is stressing me out. What is your opinion"

I did some digging and almost all those accounts are from a certain country or two famous for hosting clickfarms some years ago. So.. I guess AI companies are following the same strategy

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 1 points 7 hours ago

Reddit SEO was completely overpowered, it was so easy to get top 1 by just creating a post with your exact terms as title. Didn't matter if you got 0 upvotes, you would just suck up all traffic. We will remember those good old days

[-] Idontknowanything@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I am currently facing issues with reddit man. I am not able to put more than one comment. It's showing and issue after that is it just me or does anyone else also face it? If yes then please provide me solution for this or if u have an decent karma account and willing to sell at decent price let me know

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 14 hours ago

not from googles gemini summaries.

[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago

"ChatGPT chooses not to eat where it already shat"

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 12 hours ago

or eat where the communal toilet is.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

Probably because the AI has no concept of satire or sarcasm, and will tell people to put glue on pizza because someone was a smartass on Reddit.

[-] arotrios@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The content has taken a nosedive in the last three months - just take a look at /r/all and you'll see duplicate postings appearing on the feed within the first 100 posts.

The quality of the conversation has plummeted as well. Most comments are one or two sentences, and usually just reaction posts. You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.

It's no longer a discussion forum. It's a reaction machine, pushing a narrative that has been stripped of anything original that could be disruptive to the status quo... in other words, stripped of the very humanity that made it valuable for ChatGPT in the first place.

[-] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 5 points 9 hours ago

If you've been at Reddit for a while, you recognize all those blantant bot-driven reposts. It's really something. The same old screenshot of some tweet being reposted hundreds of times. The same questions in /r/askreddit with the same old answers. Memes that are repeating on a fixed schedule. The same ragebait content enraging the second generation of a family.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

they also lost a ton of traffic i believe too, AI slop posting and reposting, prop bots, and your spammers have mostly taken over most subs.

im betting those brief comments you mentioned are just the spammers "warming up thier accounts"as to not get banned by reddit filters, they dont contribute anymore than that. im in another forum where they discuss how to warm up thier accounts this way. also propaganda bots do it too.

i to noticed multiple post of the same thing on the front page, if its political or a news worthy, it would be up to 4-5 times on the front page alone, also likely by the same poster. and then alot of the"interesting type subs" are also double/triple posting some clearly AI generated videos.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

You can see where the AI bots have taken over - entire comment chains where old reddit tropes are just passed back and forth without any real context, critique, humor, or understanding.

That just sounds like the typical askreddit comment section for the past decade, ngl

[-] Transtaglia 2 points 5 hours ago

Considering askreddit was the first sub I personally noticed go from feeling like anywhere else online to become blatantly overrun with bots and astroturfing, feels like a chicken-or-the-egg situation.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, I thought the same thing as well. I've got no doubt it's gotten worse, but the place was never known for originality.

[-] melissavert@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

I’ve noticed the same thing. I was a long time user of Reddit. Practically obsessed over it at times. But after noticing how toxic and just plain stupid it’s gotten lately, I’ve almost completely left it. I don’t even have an account anymore. I think the final straw for me was a video of a kid allegedly being a little shit towards an older woman, so this woman’s husband started hitting the kid. And then another guy came and slapped the kid. And the majority of commenters were on the side of the adults hitting a child clearly under 12 years old. No use being on it anymore when it’s clearly just a rage machine now.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 5 points 19 hours ago

I remember my most downvoted comment was on a video of someone driving down a residential street with cars parked on both sides of the road and no visibility. They were going exactly the speed limit, and they collide with a kid that pops out between cars, as kids are wont to do, and the dad comes out and punches the car in anger and yells at the driver.

I commented that maybe you should slow down a bit when you're in a dangerous situation like that where you can't see pedestrians. Multiple people replied that the kid deserves to die for… being a kid? I think it was at worse than -100 votes when I checked before deleting my account. This was before A.I., but after it started becoming a toxic rage-bait machine. Everyone was in full justice boner mode for the dad and the kid being evil and stupid, and that drivers are completely within their rights to go full speed and hit any kids if they happen to appear.

It's really a good case study on the way the average Redditor thinks / acts.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

or those comments were bots themselves. if the sub is on the main page, you bet there will be mostly bots commenting to engage.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

and the subs having obviously AI generated videos, like the dashcam sub, some of the cat/animals subs. suddenly girls and guys dinner diary(a) replaced the AITA/aitah subs.

[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 136 points 1 day ago

"For communicators, Reddit's value is in the real conversations that people are having about your brand today, not where it surfaces tomorrow," said Adam Collins, Reddit's chief communications officer.

Reddit defining its platform as a place for consumers to discuss brands speaks volumes about its motives.

[-] Toasticus@piefed.social 9 points 20 hours ago

"I bought a brand today!"

"Woah! So did I!"

"I'm so happy this brand has made my life!"

"Yeah! So it has mine!"

Fucking riveting stuff there.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

Compounded by it being mostly bots doing that.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago

he means people making content by arguing/responds with BOTS who argue/responds with users and other bots.

[-] raman_klogius@ani.social 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Reddit is astroturfed from day 1. By that I mean they literally faked it until they made it as in the early days Reddit was 100% consisted of sock puppets, whose activity convinced outside people to join.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

astroturfing dint take off til trump came into the picture the 1st term, thats when people start flooding the politics and news subs(the gop at the time were threatening to hold social media platforms like reddit , if they dont ban these "illicit subs"). reddit was more diverse before his 1st term.

[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's long forgotten how reddit was open source. Not only that but people hosted their own instances of reddit as test beds for botting and who knows what else.

The quickmeme incident got memoryholed real fast. That era of image macro memes was basically entirely fabricated.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

What quickmeme incident? I must have missed that one.

[-] SnotFlickerman 1 points 1 day ago

but to be fair, the first post ever on Reddit was the Downing Street Memo.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, you're talking about Reddit, which is a brand, in this comment.

Like, people talk about things, and a lot of things have brands.

[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 day ago

It's just a bit two-faced and dishonest for Reddit to be marketing itself to users as a platform for genuine discussion while in actuality being a marketing platform for brands.

If more Redditors realized what Reddit has become, they might be more willing to join a platform without the centralized control that enables manipulation.

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

fucking s&p 500 stock. What are they expecting

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With enough users on the Fediverse, the astroturfing will come. It's not really inherently resistant to brand placements etc. It's just not big enough to get corporate attention.

[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Astroturfing will come, but the platform itself can't as easily be designed to enable it with preferential algorithms and tracking. If an instance injects ads into its frontend, users can easily switch instances or use an alternative frontend or app; if a specific instance is known to host promotional posts, it can be easily defederated or otherwise blocked.

The same cannot be said for blocking ads or tracking on Reddit, particularly for mobile users.

[-] bad1080@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

remember the silence brand crab? pepperidge farms remembers...

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

remember they had a reddit layout for mobile but they killed it for the app. i think it was called ireddit.

[-] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 day ago

Been a part of reddit since 2006 and as much as it pains to see something that I visited for 2 decades to go away, it needs to be put to pasture because of spez.

[-] Hackworth@piefed.ca 49 points 1 day ago

Same. Ditched my account during the API nonsense, but I still lurked occasionally on old.reddit. When they made that require a login, stopped going to reddit entirely. Which leaves this place as the last social media I interact with. I'm expecting some kinda ban on the fediverse in my country, just cause that seems par for this course. Then I dunno, give up on the internet? It's half bots now anyway.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

they dint roll it all at once, my guessing they will try to force at every opportunity and page, i suspect they will fully deploy once they get rid of old reddit, i havnt seen a nag while in a specific post, but if you are scrolling any of the main pages you would get the popup. much like qoura does now.

remember when reddit had i.reddit for mobile users, pepperidge farm remembers.

[-] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

At this point I am just running a RSS feed aggregator on my home server, and using that to keep up on news and information. If I really want to go nuts, I just feed it into my local LLM and have it summarize the days news for me.

[-] bashibazouk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Same here. I occasionally follow a link to normal reddit it and it lets me see the tread for about ten seconds then tosses up a login popup. Looks like they are locking down the whole site.

At least the bots are pretending to be intelligent. A lot of idiots on reddit that are really degrading the site.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

as if bots/spammers are going to be deterred by requiring logins, they make accounts as part of thier spamming abilities, plus these "users" also try to make genuine comments so they dont get banned. so once reddit fully deploys its going to be just propaganda bots, non-propaganda bots, spammers(OF, and website linkers). AI scraping the site will become less and less useful.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

And how is putting up barriers going to play out? Fewer users will bother, and overcoming barriers like that is more than worth it if it means you get to run your 1000-bot army.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

they are probably hopefully enough will not leave the large subs(sports and all its alts, movies/show and all its alts, celeberity gossips and alts, news and politics) AITA)and its alts, interesting type subs are mostly AI posted anyways. they dont care of the small niche subs dies though. it works for tiktok and instagram, if people are addicted enough.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

the first major reddit drama was '16-17, and who was elected at that time. and when the gop were forcing subs to be shutdown. and then the first sweep of political based bans started which got worst over time, because reddit was developing more and more sensitive ways to detect spam/bots, and even innuendos will catch you a ban. and then starting from the last election to early last year, when they massive purged most user accounts. which led them to now require logins to SCOUR for more AI data.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Meh. I started on usenet. Reddit had some fun little cultural things, but I just like yakking online in forums; not gonna particularly miss it.

[-] eicker@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

GEO gurus spent months telling brands to get on Reddit because ChatGPT loves it. Now citations drop 86% and suddenly the strategy is diversify. Amazing how quickly a growth hack becomes timeless marketing wisdom once the algorithm stops cooperating. Maybe building useful, credible information was the strategy all along. 🤷

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 13 hours ago

also googles gemini, and other AI is finding reddit less useful as the site is taken over by AI themselves/and botters, also because they ban people who would contribute with multiple accounts.

[-] eicker@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Ultimately, though, Google is all about something else: Google is currently promoting YouTube in its AI Overviews and on Gemini in general. So, for a change, it’s promoting its own service rather than, say, Reddit.

[-] DrSoap@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Advertising on reddit was always a dumb move from the get go. They had to disable comments on ads because they didn't want people actually discussing products openly and freely. It was such a farce.

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