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If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots. I want to know how many real humans read my post, comme
by breakpointalpha 5mo ago
If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots.
I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc.
Clankers can keep their own counts.
- duxup 5mo agoReddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast. It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.
- toraway 5mo agoYep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged. Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt.
- georgel 5mo agoThe irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.
- SchemaLoad 5mo agoReddit has always been fake, but it used to be a real person performing creative writing pretending to be a true story. Now it's spammed out slop at scale.