Greedy little pig-boy ruined Reddit to get his. Fuck spez.
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Fuck you spez.
I nominate spez for next neck piercing
Only further proving that he’s a greedy little pig boy.
He fits in with the other scumbag billionaries...
Just a reminder if someone gave you $10,000 a day, youd be very rich and happy. Most certainly set for life.
And with that money alone it'd take 274 years to become a billionaire.
Nobody needs that.
Christ! This is a better description than the 'million seconds vs. billion seconds' one.
Even if you got $100,000 a day, every day, it'd take you 27 years to hit a billion with just that money. That's a working days of an 8 hour, hourly wage of 12,500 an hour. 27 years.
Billionaires need to stop being billionaires.
I can't even imagine how much easier life would be at ten grand a day. It's a baffling amount of money. And all we have is proof. Proof that more than that turns these people into something less relatable that an anonymous assassin that shot dead a health insurance company CEO.
Absolute madness.
And you will still never catch up to the billionaires of today because they use that money to make more money even faster than that.
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As bots and sponsored content crowd the internet, Reddit is often seen as a more reliable source of information, and its popularity has exploded in the past couple of years.
Lmfao reading articles like this makes me feel like I'm living in the upside down. The entire site is bots posting content for bots to updoot and comment. Yet here they are getting glazed as "the last site for authentic connection". Give me a fucking break.
They're about a decade and a half out of date.
I mean, before LLMs there were people trying to do the mass influence thing... but the only entities that could be effective were the ones that could hire a few hundred people to shitpost in the same direction.
Now any nerd with a graphics card and a python interpreter can operate hundreds of accounts. Large operations are probably creating multiple synthetic high 'subscriber' subreddits or buying mod accounts on large subreddits.
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In the same article posted on Reddit one of the top posts is "BuT WhEn ReDdiT aLtErNaTiVe"? Who gonna tell them?
Anyway Reddit was cool up to 5 years ago. Now it's either bots, AI slop, Trump stuff or furries/hentai stuff.
Reddit's dead.
I'd go even further back, with hindsight. During the us elections 2016 it became basically transparent the platform was being manipulated, and it wasn't very sophisticated at that time. It's really only evolved since then - but there used to be real people to call out the BS.
All before we even get to the corporate fiefdom spez has decided he'd like reddit to be.
Remember in 2013 when reddit made a blog post about reddit meetup day with some statistics and they accidentally left in Eglin Air Force Base as the "most addicted city?"
Of course, can't have the plebs knowing that the site is manipulated by the US military, so they hid the truth, but archive.org remembers.
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I keep telling them about the Fediverse. I’m certain that because there’s more people on Reddit, they have a higher shot of engagement and attention. So they stick around.
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It’s INSANE. The bot flooding started to become notably - and noticeably - bad around the time the API exodus happened. And it’s only accelerated. And most people seem to just be pretending it’s not even happening.
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Daily active users have approximately doubled since the summer of 2023.
Surely some of this is bots but... I have a hard time believing it is all of them. So much for the API protests in 2023... 😞
It most likely is.
Not ALL bots are Reddit-made. Sure, many are, but there's a growing interest by many states to increase their influence of social media.
Tons of Russian/Chinese bots pushing the tankie agenda for example, tons of bots pushing right-wing psy-ops and lies, lots of companies trying to push their own angles as well... and given the number of people who've left Reddit since, and who've been kicked off the platform, I'd say a majority ARE bots.
the main content creators and initial users have probably left.
I went back to Facebook recently, a very different and dire sight to back in it's hay days
I wish I could go back in time and tell my boomer family members to keep using email instead of Facebook. They were right and we were wrong. Now they're the only reason I still have a Facebook account.
I get banned from that platform a couple of times a day when over 5 years ago my million karma original account got banned for "threatening violence" Any talk of organizing and rising up will get you the permaban stick. He is yet another complicit billionaire hell bent on killing the American work force and our democracy. He, too, will wear a blindfold when his sentence is read aloud.
I got a permaban just for saying I didn’t care that Trump said Liz Cheney should be shot, because she’s called for the deaths of millions as a warmonger. Didn’t encourage anything. Just said I didn’t care.
A billion dollars doesn't make 15 year olds legal, spez.
How many dollars does that?
What an absolute disgrace. I'm pissed that Aaron Swartz was the one who died, and that they fired Victoria. Steve Huffman can go choke on a bag of sweaty dicks.
Firing Victoria was really the end of the Old Reddit. It felt like the loss of that side of reddit - the un-guided AMA’s by famous people - just led to reddit descending further into bots and reposts. The site had nothing to talk about other than itself anymore.
it's all false growth. it's the same reason why the economy is tanking yet the exchange is "strong".
bubble economics.
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The former mod of r/jailbait must be proud of himself
He took a great place, where there were tons of flourishing communities, that people spent an amazing amount of their free time building and caring for, and took a giant shit all over it to bundle it all up and sell it to the AI garbage lords. Hope it was worth it buddy. Fuck you.
Another billionaire nonce for the billionaire nonce club.
Yea I mean he sold the whole site out to right wing propaganda peoples, that had to be worth a few billion
I speculate it's mostly Ouroboros style funding and phony metrics. Bots selling "engagement" to other bots is pretty profitable, I guess. At least for now. The only person I know who still openly uses reddit is an obnoxious drunk white woman in her 60s.
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Do any of you know how I can get into 3d printing? It's for research.
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