When I left Reddit years ago I was already convinced than more than half the accounts were bots.

During the exodus, it felt like 20-30%

Anything with an even mildly AI-adjacent topic is a solid 75% bots right now…

/r/nvidia, /r/amd, /r/hardware, etc, etc…

the “meat” is where all the propaganda can target like the front page subs.

Absolutely. Frontpage stuff like /r/politics has been mostly bots & trolls farms since well-before the AIpocalypse. AI just took much of the burden off the human hand on that rudder.

They ruined r/foss and on a track to finish off r/selfhosted, my beloved. S/selfhosted used to be mega cool place to be. Today it is plain depressing. And an actual user activity there dropped to almost zero.

I’d like to believe it is but I also know that the majority of people online do not give a damn about user experience and things getting shittier. I do not understand these people, but its because of them this shit is still happening. If they all left sites like reddit there’d be no incentive to become shittier and shittier.

Not trying to shift blame though, in the first place its companies like reddit even coming up with strategy who are to blame.

thats whats FB has become.

FB is really garbage.

I want to believe. But X (formerly known as Twitter) and Facebook are still there. It may be a long death which is indistinguishable from (low-quality) life.

I was chased out by admin in 2024, after a long line of accounts were violated for abuses that were falsely alleged. Because Israel I suspect.

See my Reddit alternative: Zyke Design was inspired by piefed. Had 3k hits last month

Ok…? This is such an odd comment, it’s like you’re not aware of lemmy and piefed etc. being alternatives while using one of them.

It will be Facebook 2.0. A place where boomers and bots dwell.