Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall(pontozero.info) |
Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall(pontozero.info) |
You can get dirty by digging, of course. But there are still excellent communities on reddit that you really can't find anywhere else.
Other social media sites I feel like I'm fighting off a wave of whatever the site wants / momentum of all the users is.
Granted that doesn't mean they're completely isolated, a lot of smaller subs I was a part of have fallen into a mess of spam and engagement bots and so on so my total subs I'm interested in has fallen off.
It's up to you to learn not to doomscroll where it starts showing you garbage after it burns through your personal feed.
I stay far away from the front page, even my own. I use an rss reader for all the subs and when I want to comment I login into old.reddit.
Edit: appears the answer is no.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1lxvajq/has_anyone...
"Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...
For me the magic of a niche community like a subreddit or HN is when a 99th percentile expert in the subject shows up and gives everybody a brilliant lecture on the actual truth of things. These are not 99th percentile in Reddit use or post count or any of those things.
The moderators (and the algorithm they support and tune) are why the conversation on HN is compelling enough to attract 99th percentile experts on just about every subject.
The entire internet is really not much more than a strip mall at this stage with every site being subscription or ad based.
Lists, X/Y comparisons, em dashes, rhetorical questions... Just has a gross feeling to it.
Oh, that’s because it’s LLM slop.
When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious.
They have now positioned themselves as an ai-slop source of truth. Expect everyone interested in ranking well in google's AI Overview -- essentially every marketer -- to treat reddit as a high-priority slop/advertising target.
Now it's just a hivemind of low information opinions, hot takes, and brainrot.