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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 139 points 3 weeks ago (61 children)

Makes sense, Reddit feels like a shell of it's former self.

After the apicalypse many subs seems to have died, also the new UI that has been pushed for a decade or so, seems to promote consumption of content and discourage creation of content, further reducing new content.

Reddit has been many, many times by AI companies, why keep scanning if the content stays 98% the same, with most new content being of mostly lower quality, simply due to people posting AI shit.

This was a very predictable outcome.

As soon as Reddit's history got scanned by AI models, it lost 98% of it's future value.

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

not to mention the NSFW purge. Like it or not, that was a HUGE part of reddit's success.

[–] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait what did they do to the NSFW subs? They were still active when I was banned a few years ago

[–] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

they removed the r/nsfwrandom search string, and banned hundreds of the NSFW subreddits due to "lack of moderation." You can still go to many of them, (that remain) but you have to actively punch the subreddit into your address bar, and then you can only link to other related subreddits through the Subreddits' own link list (which is only up to date if you're lucky). Searching for them is still possible but access is a crapshoot due to the aforementioned subreddit bans.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

i heard many of them got purged from another forum. some people make it a business to push or promote thier content/agency on these subs. funny how reddit target these people and not the propaganda bots.

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