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IME the niche subs are still doing fine, it's the popular ones that are getting astroturfed and Eternal September'ed into oblivion. I do expect the LLM bots to
by herculity275 2y ago
IME the niche subs are still doing fine, it's the popular ones that are getting astroturfed and Eternal September'ed into oblivion. I do expect the LLM bots to eventually render the platform unusable, they would need to implement a very aggressive personhood verification policy to prevent that.
- BitwiseFool 2y agoI sense that real world people are a more serious problem when it comes to Reddit's manipulation. It seems relatively easy for a coordinated group of moderators and power-users to sway a subreddit's tone. I browse with a plugin that keeps track of a user's cumulative upvote/downvote score based on my votes of their content. I quickly noticed that the most downvoted users crosspost the same low effort content on a regular basis.