and the subs having obviously AI generated videos, like the dashcam sub, some of the cat/animals subs. suddenly girls and guys dinner diary(a) replaced the AITA/aitah subs.
Tollana1234567
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they also lost a ton of traffic i believe too, AI slop posting and reposting, prop bots, and your spammers have mostly taken over most subs.
im betting those brief comments you mentioned are just the spammers "warming up thier accounts"as to not get banned by reddit filters, they dont contribute anymore than that. im in another forum where they discuss how to warm up thier accounts this way. also propaganda bots do it too.
i to noticed multiple post of the same thing on the front page, if its political or a news worthy, it would be up to 4-5 times on the front page alone, also likely by the same poster. and then alot of the"interesting type subs" are also double/triple posting some clearly AI generated videos.
also googles gemini, and other AI is finding reddit less useful as the site is taken over by AI themselves/and botters, also because they ban people who would contribute with multiple accounts.
they want to follow META and tiktoks footsteps.
remember they had a reddit layout for mobile but they killed it for the app. i think it was called ireddit.
astroturfing dint take off til trump came into the picture the 1st term, thats when people start flooding the politics and news subs(the gop at the time were threatening to hold social media platforms like reddit , if they dont ban these "illicit subs"). reddit was more diverse before his 1st term.
he means people making content by arguing/responds with BOTS who argue/responds with users and other bots.
they are probably hopefully enough will not leave the large subs(sports and all its alts, movies/show and all its alts, celeberity gossips and alts, news and politics) AITA)and its alts, interesting type subs are mostly AI posted anyways. they dont care of the small niche subs dies though. it works for tiktok and instagram, if people are addicted enough.
as if bots/spammers are going to be deterred by requiring logins, they make accounts as part of thier spamming abilities, plus these "users" also try to make genuine comments so they dont get banned. so once reddit fully deploys its going to be just propaganda bots, non-propaganda bots, spammers(OF, and website linkers). AI scraping the site will become less and less useful.
they dint roll it all at once, my guessing they will try to force at every opportunity and page, i suspect they will fully deploy once they get rid of old reddit, i havnt seen a nag while in a specific post, but if you are scrolling any of the main pages you would get the popup. much like qoura does now.
remember when reddit had i.reddit for mobile users, pepperidge farm remembers.
the first major reddit drama was '16-17, and who was elected at that time. and when the gop were forcing subs to be shutdown. and then the first sweep of political based bans started which got worst over time, because reddit was developing more and more sensitive ways to detect spam/bots, and even innuendos will catch you a ban. and then starting from the last election to early last year, when they massive purged most user accounts. which led them to now require logins to SCOUR for more AI data.
or those comments were bots themselves. if the sub is on the main page, you bet there will be mostly bots commenting to engage.