• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right?

    In-between comments are ads.

    Under every post is a recommendation for other subreddits where the last update was 2-3 weeks ago.

    Subreddits with clear bait clog up the front page, and no filters to remove them.

    Top comments are jokes and memes.

    It’s a real shit experience on Reddit right now.

    • highenergyphysics@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They really leaned hard into the fraud strategy, hoping to IPO in 2023 and run with the money.

      It got to the point where the entire front page was just bots reposting the greatest hits, with the comments section literally being bots reposting comments from the first time it was posted. There were entire comment chains of bots just having reposted conversations with each other.

      The release of LLM APIs was the last straw, now even the conservatives are jumping ship because it was just a bunch of fascist liars lying to each other. And if there is one thing conservatives hate, it’s being around other conservatives.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Some of those issues went over here pretty quick too.

      I feel we have a lot of the faux intellectual crowd who thought 5-10 years ago they were better than other for using reddit.