no ; reddit is ruining reddit for everyone.
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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nah reddit is fine for loads of things
better than lemmy in fact but then it has FOUR orders of magnitude more active users
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Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it's human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.
Now, it's all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.
The engagement bots constantly peppering my comments with inane remarks to draw a reaction is what drove me to Lemmy. I was there early on, and it was awesome. As its popularity grew, it became less nice, but I still enjoyed going there. In the end, I didn't feel like commenting because I knew that I'd just get hit with stupid responses calculated to draw a response. It just felt harassing.
peppering my comments with inane remarks to draw a reaction
They're here, too.
I occasionally see comments to the effect of, "Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?" That seem pretty likely to just be bots trying to generate data on certain topics for AI training. Thankfully, most people seem to ignore them.
I occasionally see comments to the effect of, "Oh, really? Can you tell me more about that?"
Fuck. Am I a bot?
I saw a pretty good short sci-fi film a year or so ago about a woman accidentally finding out that she's a bot.
Bro you can't just say that and not mention the name. What was it?
Different book, but try We are legion (we are Bob)
That's a good book, not terribly deep but very much fun to read. I'm sure bots thinking they are human has been done several times. First show that comes to mind is Westworld, which is kind of centered around that idea.
Only the more recent TV show. The original westworld film was more like Terminator.
I would pick blade runner as the classic bot / human confusion.
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Beep boop fellow clanker.
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Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.
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Let's not blame AI for everything: Reddit had a lot of problems before AI became big. Repost bots are so common that you'll see the same posts over and over again. Some of those twitter screenshots must have been posted hundreds or thousands of times. OnlyFans spam also works without AI. And we have had those bots spamming the same stupid comments before people were even thinking about GPTs.
Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh
Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time
Karma guaranteed
5 years? I see the same reposted on a daily basis. One guy was reposting his own rainwater drain video, different angle every week.
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I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.
But I'm grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.
Now that they're starting to creep in Lemmy, I'm prepared.
Reddit already ruined Reddit. The AI slop is just the broken glass in the turd.
Nope, can't ruin it for me because I have left this cursed place.
Reddit was ruined for me a couple of years ago and AI wasn't involved. I no longer interact there but I do still read Reddit occasionally. Personally I find it difficult to wade through hundreds of one-liners without forgetting what the post was about.
I mean, yeah, I left during the first wave of API changes and before the company went public, but the AI has definitely made it completely unusable.
Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:
- Bot spam
- Dead
I find the usefulness of a subreddit is inversely proportional to its size (popularity). There are still some good ones but they are quite small.
I had hoped Lemmy would fill this void for me but it’s still too small overall such that the smallest communities are barely active at all. Thus I tend to just scroll the feed of everything and see what catches my eye, admittedly a much less useful way to spend my time since I get sucked into ragebait instead of discussing cool hobbies.
Are you me? Because that's exactly what I've been doing. I set my default browse experience to Top 6 hour and then scroll All.
I do miss the community aspect of Reddit. There were other users who I ran into regularly in the comments. And usually not in a hostile way.
Hell, there was one sub where I was invited to the mod team because of those interactions. I did that for a couple years and continued to be active in the sub until Reddit start pissing off mods. That and my main "friend" on the mod team had his account nuked by Reddit after he fell for a troll.
Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.
So yeah, I logged out of that reddit account and have never logged back in, instead I use a burner account and try not comment on anything.
Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.
Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.
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Yeah if there was a niche Lemmy sub for everything I would no longer visit Reddit at all but I can’t get my Nightreign fix here sadly
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It were already infested with Capitalist slop, marketing and propaganda. It was an market religious, propagandized garbagedump for a long long time before AI.. The sooner that Capitalist brain-rot disappears the better.
'AI slop' is just an extension of normal 'Capitalist slop' - garbage that have zero purpose outside a market battlefield..
What, did /u/spez change his name to /u/AI_Slop?
Yes. But, to perhaps a lower extent, this headline is also true if you change 'Reddit' to 'the internet'.
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Reddit was ruined long before AI came into the picture. that place hasn't been good for a decade.
reddit was ruined by reddit
it's just evidence that the site went the way of social media and is saturated with people who circulate such things
Everyone? Lol. Was this written by an idiot that still uses Reddit as their main outlet?
lmfao no, corporate greed and "shareholder value" is ruining both AI and reddit (and pretty much everything else) for everyone.
Yeah right I remember the good old wholesome days of jailbait.
Oddly, that was Spez, and when he went away for a bit, Reddit got really good. And then he came back and it went to shit.
Right I remember how Reddit ran Ellen Pao off as if she was the wicked witch of the west.
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Not for me! I left that place years ago…
Reddit is now Facebook 2.0.