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Starting when?
That ship has sailed.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
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The ship was never at that port.
Reddit was using bots and vote manipulators back to the Digg days, as well as scraping/reposting akin to what 9gag became famous for.
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I know he's just selling the platform to AI companies, but it's an odd take considering they've been moving away from being a message board and towards being just another content feed for years now.
Looked up some information a bit ago and found Reddit using AI written answer pages to aggregate information. Which- why? The information was already indexed by a search engine, the sole reason I landed on this page. Why are you offering me secondhand, watered down information written by your idiot machine when I can instead read sourced accounts with citations?
It’s interesting to know that you can do this, but I could not care less about a machine’s perspective on what is or is not the prevailing opinion. Moreover, it completely contradicts your stated goal, you perjurious pool of feculence.
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I'm guessing he hasn't browsed his own site recently then.
Probably nothing there to interest him since they banned /r/jailbait
Maybe he shouldn't have permabanned all of us power users after the Inauguration. He might have some active humans posting if he hadn't let the DOGE Goblin intimidate him into firing all of his best posters, the ones who built Reddit into what it was over the past decade. WE were Reddit, not bots, and now we're gone, and only the bots remain.
Good job, Spez.
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It's gotten to the point that if someone were to ask me what my super power would be if I could choose, I'd say that I'd like to be able to see what is human and what isn't when I'm online. Very boring super power, but it would make some things a lot easier.
Ironically I also lost count on how many times I was accused of being a bot near the end of my time on reddit. I wouldn't be surprised if those who accused me were bots themselves. It was just insane sometimes.
But good luck with that, Mr CEO. I'm sure you care very much about your human users on your goofy platform.
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I don't believe him.
Wow, that's a bit unfair. What has he ever done to show he's a lying, money grabbing, scummy piece of shit?
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He said, in his best human voice.
Half of the comments are from bots and everyone gets autobanned.
Reddit is quite literally on autopilot
And the other half are re-posts.
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And controlled by 15 mods.
If we don’t look for bots, there aren’t any. Sounds more republican every day. If we don’t record covid deaths, there aren’t any.
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"remain"? They really don't use their own service, do they?
I'm wondering if advertisers are starting to notice - that's the only thing that'll make these fuckers try to clean house. It's maybe two years since I left reddit and even then it was absolutely infested with bots. They didn't give a fuck, only cared about the IPO. But advertisers are going to care when they get lots of engagement but no customers because all the engagement is bots.
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And we're supposed to take his word for it?
brands were increasingly exploring hosting a business account and posting content on Reddit to boost the likelihood of their ads appearing in the responses of generative AI chatbots
"exploring" meaning they've been doing it for more than 5 years already and just got another incentive to continue doing so
He didn't say entirely or how many, lol. If there's 2 humans writing, it's technically still, "It's the place you go when you want to hear from people."
Exactly what I thought, cause a lot of comments are from bots and even the ones that appear from humans aren't necessarily humans. How can you say it remains like it is now and it is written by humans at the same time?
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Bots dominate Reddit. This will never change. Straight lying to everyone's faces.
"Trust me!" says yet another capitalist.
Ironically the fact that Star Trek is the one of the only specific media franchises that can maintain an active community on Lemmy explains it.
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...with AI admin and moderation. Anyone who's been banned from reddit will tell you that, hell it says as much in the message they give you. I was banned once for saying "slava ukraini" which according to my ban was a direct attack at a minority (apparently russians are a minority according to reddit bots) and then another for asking how long before citizens begin shooting at ICE agents which, again according to reddit bots, was inciting violence on a minority (ICE agents are now also a minority according to reddit).
the vast majority of posts and comments are bots. the obvious reposts with misleading titles to generate karma to allow said bots to have enough karma to then post on various other subreddits to push whatever bullshit agenda or product they want to push.
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not this human
sent from my pinephone
So he wants it to be a huge testing grounds with ai for anybody that uses it, got it.
Use the platform? You are talking with and training AI.
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Ah ! so when do they roll it back ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They chase away the humans and ban the ones that are left!
Fuck, can this loser just fuck off into oblivion already?? You got your money pig boi now piss off!
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Not by this human.
Probably why they are banning so many REAL users at such a high rate.
Woah. A pledge from a CEO. There’s no way this is meaningless PR bullshit. We better take it seriously.
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It's really wild that the guy who co-founded Reddit is so universally hated by the users.
Talk about having completely lost touch.
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