antisthenes 5 days ago

Reddit is a self-perpetuating AI-engagement machine.

Seems like 90% of the content there is now either reposts from Reddits first decade (2008-2018), engagement rage-bait, or really low-effort posts from newly registered users (who might be real, but they are normies so they ask really mundane boring questions that could be googled in seconds).

I truly believe it now exists only to serve as training data for the highest bidder to pay out the initial investors, everything else be damned.

I wouldn't use it for anything important.

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jakevoytko 5 days ago

It's kinda always been this way (I just turned to dust thinking about this, but I've been posting to it for like 18 years), but it's worse now.

r/programming is the only subreddit I regularly visit where there are a bunch of posts with 0 upvotes in the top 30. There are 16 right now on the Hot view.

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