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Articles like this keep pushing the narrative that “users are angry” but I don’t see that anger in the local subreddit i visit the most (500+k subscribers, seve
by znpy 3y ago
Articles like this keep pushing the narrative that “users are angry” but I don’t see that anger in the local subreddit i visit the most (500+k subscribers, several thousands daily visitors)
The past two weeks have been largely normal.
I don’t think this narrative is truthful. Most likely is going to be a very vocal minority.
Not sure they can be called “landed gentry” but surely I’ve seen some shady behaviours (like silencing political opinions not liked by the mods).
- gAI 3y agoSomething like 1% of users contribute almost all of reddit's content. In other words, reddit's only value is a very vocal minority. And at least some of us left.
- rngname22 3y agoon major meme subreddits, news subs, yes. on social / relationship / alt lifestyle discussion subs, hobby discussion subs, product review/discussion subs, etc. the balance is a lot more even. the power users submitting all the posts to /r/mildlysupercringeinfuriatingontwitter will pack up their toys and leave but the people using subreddits to discuss their niche outdoor hobby, their home reno DIY project, their alt sexuality, etc. will just keep on chatting away. would not mind at all if every sub with more than 1 mil subscribers just got wiped and had to be replaced with new ones (maybe go to read-only / archive for the google searchability). like a forest fire to clear up front page real estate for new growth.
- gAI 3y agoI imagine any large social media site is doomed to be overrun by AI generated content imminently, so it probably won't matter much either way. We needed to drop massively social media as a society, anyway. And it's not like we were going to do that without being forced. So I guess one point AI in a round-about way.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoIf the bots pass the Turing test, does it really matter if they aren't human? Even if they are subliminally recommending hot singles in your area.
- gAI 3y agoI downloaded 17,000+ of my reddit comments before deleting, so I can fine tune Orca into a digital ghost version of me. It will haunt the corporate ad bots that live in what remains of the old web. Or more likely I will not do that.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoWhat if I offered this to you as a cloud service, for a couple of bucks a month?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoI don't visit Reddit often, but some tv/book fandom subs I check up on look deteriorated. Part of this may be Discord sucking away some users though, as I see Discord links in the sidebars. "Chat" subs (which I dont frequent myself) seem like they would be particularly vulnerable... But maybe not shrug.
- dredmorbius 3y agoThe distribution is all but certainly nearly identical, though the individual contributors likely differ. Power-law distributions are extraordinarily prevalent in virtually all media, with a tiny fraction of contributors having an exceptionally outsized contribution.
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- znpy 3y agoI call bs on that.
- scrum-treats 3y agoAgree. People who don't care that a porn pathway is being cutoff are instead more worried that they couldn't access subreddits to learn and share information. Not everyone uses the API to gather exclusively NFSW data. In contrast, those who are concerned and who do use the API for this purpose have and remain quite vocal. There's also a subgroup interested in privacy out of principle, however they are a small minority of the "angry users."