• Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    I think (hope) this might be Reddit’s death. Reddit as we knew it 10-15 years ago is already gone. It’ll keep going with bots talking to bots and idiots, but if you can’t even upvote what you want without getting a ban, who’s going to stick around?

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      7 hours ago

      If you came to reddit from digg, you’ll have seen how they’ve been turning up the algorithm interference over the years. It used to just be upvotes, raw popularity. It’s a bad faith actor at this stage. Some frogs will jump out of the water while it boils, many won’t notice and will get algo brainwashed.

    • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online
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      At this point they are mainstream and are probably gaining a crazy amount of new people who don’t know any better. They’ll stick around to talk to the bots and generate some ad revenue just like facebook lol.