Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.
    • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 hours ago

      Niche communities that simply don’t exist on Lemmy. If your only hobbies are tech, lemmy probably covers all of your bases, but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        2 hours ago

        but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.

        And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.

        • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          18 minutes ago

          Yeah. I help mod the Washington Capitals hockey team sub, and recently I looked through every other NHL team’s sub, and we’re the ONLY ones that post game day threads. And even with us, it’s basically only one or two of us commenting on the games. Compare that to dozens or even hundreds of people commenting on every game in every team’s reddit sub.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        33 minutes ago

        There’s also fun bullshit communities that refuse to migrate too. I listen to some of them on YouTube as they read the stories from there while I work on other things or drive.

        I tried creating a community here but never got others to post their show too.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        2 hours ago

        And regional communities. There’s not nearly enough people in the fediverse to support city or state communities. And only the most populous countries.

  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    I went on reddit yesterday just for a minute. Saw a post about some guy asking what he could do with a small hallway like space in his house (imagine a small walk in closet without the door). Almost every response I opened up was an AI generated image. That thread alone probably wasted a small swimming pool of water just cause some people couldn’t be arsed to copy and paste a server rack.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Letting gallowboob “moderate” the basically the whole front page was an insane decision. Some of those guys were selling product placement.

      The centralization of power to few mods was always a problem, but smaller communities got by.

      The huge quality drop came when Spez felt he missed the IPO wave around 2018 and decided to growth hack the site. Then they finally killed most of them too with the API drama.

      Popular and moving away from hot to best was also bad. They horribly failed to discipline abuse from the_donald for years…

      New reddit is still not even usable from a phone. It crashes frequently and i swaer to God it only shows like 8 posts and just fucking loops through them (how have thry not noticed this, I only check 4 subreddits and its unbearable).

      • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        58 minutes ago

        The dysfunction of the mobile website is most likely on purpose, to drive users towards the dedicated program

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    I regret wasting all those years trying to fight back all the bots I flagged on that hot garbage platform.

    But I’m grateful that I gained skills on how to identify an LLM bot from a mile away.

    Now that they’re starting to creep in Lemmy, I’m prepared.

  • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
    47·
    6 hours ago

    Let’s not blame AI for everything: Reddit had a lot of problems before AI became big. Repost bots are so common that you’ll see the same posts over and over again. Some of those twitter screenshots must have been posted hundreds or thousands of times. OnlyFans spam also works without AI. And we have had those bots spamming the same stupid comments before people were even thinking about GPTs.

    • Tynan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 hours ago

      While I agree being shitty is a human problem, shitty people are using AI to be shitty faster.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 hours ago

      Repost bots should be built in to Reddit tbh

      Just take whatever was the top 5 a year ago and repost it at the same time

      Karma guaranteed

      • nert@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        4 hours ago

        5 years? I see the same reposted on a daily basis. One guy was reposting his own rainwater drain video, different angle every week.