The very first r/place was probably the last good memory I have of Reddit. Scares me to see them crack down on this stuff, I hope people find new places to re-congregate
i wrote a now deleted blog post about this on Bear "Reddit is Pro-AI" ~1-2 months ago. soooo much AI-slop left rampant. reddit endorses it even. their biggest partner is open ai and ai steals reddit comments! they do not give a fuck about their users data. im guessing they dont want to train the bots to say stuff that will upset their true customers
I think this is just a "back to normal", a few elites controlled all public discourse through newspapers, then radio, then TV, the bigger they got, the larger their control, and then the internet started letting random people be heard/read/reachable?? For the last ten years they have been slowly changing it, cutting organic reach and letting algorithms decide what you see, fabricating what goes viral and so on [...]
so we go back to the underground, to the independent newspaper only people passing through that corner might pick up, to the guy shouting through a megaphone, independents, agitators, rebels, inciters, everyone who is not repeating what they allow.
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I'm so glad I bounced before they started going turbo on enshittifying everything, like getting rid of Reddit Secret Santa.
I had so much fun with the Secret Santa. The site has really gone to shit.
The very first r/place was probably the last good memory I have of Reddit. Scares me to see them crack down on this stuff, I hope people find new places to re-congregate
i wrote a now deleted blog post about this on Bear "Reddit is Pro-AI" ~1-2 months ago. soooo much AI-slop left rampant. reddit endorses it even. their biggest partner is open ai and ai steals reddit comments! they do not give a fuck about their users data. im guessing they dont want to train the bots to say stuff that will upset their true customers
I think this is just a "back to normal", a few elites controlled all public discourse through newspapers, then radio, then TV, the bigger they got, the larger their control, and then the internet started letting random people be heard/read/reachable?? For the last ten years they have been slowly changing it, cutting organic reach and letting algorithms decide what you see, fabricating what goes viral and so on [...]
so we go back to the underground, to the independent newspaper only people passing through that corner might pick up, to the guy shouting through a megaphone, independents, agitators, rebels, inciters, everyone who is not repeating what they allow.
Well put!