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If Reddit loses all the bots, they will literally lose more than half of their activity, especially in an election year.
Noooooooooooo
Quickly! Everyone start massposting shit about Hegel, Kierkegaard, and sharing 3-hour breadtube essays about leftism to drive off the impending brainrot lol
Do the masses not like discussing Kierkegaard?
Personally, I'd be happy to see more users, particularly in the niche groups which are often dead as a dead thing. I don't want the bots tho, and I'm thinking that gen AI has probably made the fuckers pretty plausible and hard to identify.
Yeah, the hornyposts have been great for my ability to think about anything other than politics for 5 fucking minutes. I'd like more variety here.
I actually read the announcement, and there's nothing controversial there. They delete 100k bot accounts daily.
Then why make the announcement?
You described their normal behavior, now they've made this announcement. Something must have changed.
**PRESS RELEASE **
I have done some gardening this morning. I now intend to finish my cup of tea, take a shit, and play some computer games. My day off is proceeding normally. Further details to follow.
The only thing I miss from reddit is my favorite small niche subs.
Invisible bicycles.
Where people take photos of people on bicycles and Photoshop out the bicycle. You can request or do the edits.
Forbiddensnacks
Photos of stuff that looks like delicious food but is not food.
There was another with short videos of animals in sync. Like chickens or dogs .
Oh and another that was photos of cats, sitting on clear glass. The photos were from the underside.
There was another photoshop battle one. Where there was a prompt and then everyone would submit a photoshopped mash of the prompt.
But I bet AI has ruined that one.
I think I miss forbidden snacks the most.
Same style of stuff I miss. Mainly instrument related subreddits, books, and boutique blu-rays. However I don’t miss Reddit itself at all. Especially with how right wing brain rot it became. It felt like hanging out in a Facebook comments section.
Similar vein to forbidden snacks was don't put your dick in that. Yeah I miss the niche subs too, don't miss the rest of the bullshit tho.
E. Ask historians was also high grade.
Exactly. For me it was Cats (all animals, really) and Guitars.
Political discussions are far better on Lemmy.
I miss r/fitness. It was big enough but good enough to learn a lot and get motivation.
I miss the TV episode discussions. Even if I wasn't following live, I could go read the thread and feel the shared excitement and read the theories and there was always something I hadn't noticed that someone else had.
I miss those the most.
my little hometown somehow had a subreddit. i don't know how
The good news is that if the fediverse gets an influx of Redditors, maybe we'll see some of those niches pop up here too. Reddit's impending identity theft coupled with the insane enforcement of rule 1 they've been doing lately is what got me to make my account here.
Psst ,we humans left reddit in 2023
I think people should experience smaller communities, they are often much higher quality in terms of the actual social interactions (though, we're starting to get our share of trolls and toxic people).
I think there was a big shift for reddit in 2016 after they bought (and then shut down..) AlienBlue and then launch their official app. That moment it felt like when the number of users just exploded, but with that, the quality of posts (and average age of the user) dropped.
Lemmy/the fediverse reminds me of 2010-2015 reddit (which is a good thing!)
I remember when Reddit was run out of spez's Somerville apartment on a little PC. No subreddits, just one top page. Terrible performance and no users. Everyone was at either Slashdot or Digg. Even Kuro5hin by then was dead. Reddit beat Digg because Digg got stupid and abused their community. Reddit is a million times worse now than Digg ever was.
Yup! I was a part of the mass Digg exodus.
I figured that would happen again with reddit, but to my disappointment the internet is a much different place than it used to be.
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5 more users. I assume that's the number of users still stupid enough to still be using reddit. I profoundly apologize to the stupid community who are not using reddit.
I wouldn't say users are stupid to still be using Reddit. There's still alot more activity there and alot of subs still haven't switched over yet. But if they start requiring identity verification, I think we'll see alot more switching. Right now, I do both to get the best of both worlds. If I have to give them my identity, they get cut out.
I profoundly apologize to the stupid community who are not using reddit.
apology accepted
This is going to move the bots to places that don't check.
Without bots their most popular text based subs like AITAH or TwoHotTakes would be empty.
They are not actually going to touch these bots. You are just clueless if you think they will remove their own propaganda tools.
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