| ▲ | breakpointalpha 2 days ago |
| If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots. I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc. Clankers can keep their own counts. |
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| ▲ | duxup 2 days ago | parent [-] |
| Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast. It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses. |
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| ▲ | toraway 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged. Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt. | |
| ▲ | georgel 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder. | | |
| ▲ | SchemaLoad a day ago | parent [-] | | Reddit has always been fake, but it used to be a real person performing creative writing pretending to be a true story. Now it's spammed out slop at scale. |
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