I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.

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      It’s the Reddit community, juste block it if you don’t want to see it

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        It’s ok, I was mainly making a joke :-) I don’t mind a reddit related post every once in a while, it’s always funny to see what reddit turned into

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      I’m all for staying here on Lemmy: Lemmings are nicer than Redditors and the place is a lot higher S/N ratio.

      But… sadly, due to inertia, Reddit is still where a lot of stuff is squarely at. There are long-established Reddit communities - often nice, well behaved communities - that don’t give a toss about the Reddit drama, and are simply not interested in moving out.

      I’ve been trying to kickstart an equivalent Reddit community here on Lemmy for almost a year. While there’s a handful of members, it’s basically just me infrequently posting in it. The original one on Reddit has almost 10K members, is fairly active, and clearly none of the members know anything about Lemmy - much less want to create an account and join my insignificant equivalent community. I keep it around in case Reddit enshittifies to such an extent that even those who don’t care start taking notice. But at the moment, inertia is much too strong.

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        which community? I tried to see if I could swing by to support your budding community whatever it is, so I had a look through your posts and couldnt see a community you moderate?

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        Hello,

        I just pinged you into one of the communities we created for people in a similar situation to you (singler poster for a community, trying to keep it alive). Feel free to have a look there, I hope you’ll find it interesting to be able to share your experience with others

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        Seems like the Bats community here on Lemmy.world was popular due to some new posts every day.

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    Lol yeah I can’t get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.

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        They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.

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          It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.

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          So people training their AI models have to pay them instead of scraping them for free. Got to make those share holders happy, right? Even if it goes against its own founding ideals.

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      i’ve never had an office job but it’s extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you’re in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they’d take away as some bullshit austerity ritual

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      Also TOR, but you can easily tell it to use a different circuit and most of the times it isn’t blocked, in my experience.

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    Every time I see that stupid little alien, I change my mind about visiting. I see Spez’s smug grin on that stupid little goo blob avatar and it just makes me want to find my info anywhere else.

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    Tech companies are now the hot new thing for MBAs to put into their resumes. That’s why you see this enshittification. Used to be the money people didn’t want to work in tech because it made them feel dumb. That was what made the industry work. Those times are over.

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      MBA’s do not get enough shit for being a root cause of the deterioration for modern life.

      It really is a bullshit career. Companies should be run by people who came up in the industry and learned all the pitfalls rather than college kids who learned how to not pay contracts until they’re legally forced to.

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      Reddit got run down because they were trying to make it turn more profit because they were planning to IPO for maximum value.

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    Changing the url to sh.reddit.com lets you get around it. Been using that when I’ve needed to look up a reddit thread at work.

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    While I do agree that this is bad, I’m a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn’t that relate to users being bots?

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      That no one really uses reddit, that it’s dominated by bots masquerading as real people.

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        I swear you can actually spot entire chains of comments consisting of only bots replying to other bots on every single submission that makes it to the front page. It’s baffling how fast and hard reddit has fallen.

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          Do you have an example? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve heard a lot about this theory but can’t really imagine how you would differentiate bots from mindless redditors farming for karma by saying „This.“

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            The obvious ones are simple repost bots. They start with 1 account reposting some popular submission, then you’ll likely find at least 1 or more other accounts in the comments reposting a popular comment from the original post. They typically are created at the same time and have a similar pattern of maybe a handful of comments and submissions. When I was still using Reddit I saw them all the time on /r/all. Nowadays you also find a lot of bots reposting someone else’s comment in the same chain, maybe with slight grammatical changes. There’s some people and even a bot account that call those accounts out. I’ve seen a metric shitton of this happening since the last big shitstorm (which also really changed the content on /r/all for the worse).

            I think LLM based ones are probably harder to spot because they would sound a lot more natural and their profiles would look more organic.

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    I went there the other day for the first time in a while and noticed how many ads there were and even ads disguised as notifications. Enshitification to the max. So glad I joined Lemmy.

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      I’ve logged in a few times recently and I’ve not seen (m)any ads. But I pay for prime. The subscription is hardly worth it as I’ve mostly moved to Lemmy. But there are still some communities that haven’t made the jump.

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    The only times I’ve seen that is if I’m trying to browse while on a VPN(mullvad in my case). And more often than not it’s because it came up in a search.

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    My recent permaban from r/worldnews for stating the obvious (is “Iran attacks Israel” still the right title for a stickied thread on the events in Gaza?) has had the positive effect of making me renew with Lemmy.

    r/worldnews is a cesspool of hasbara fanboys, but their unilateral view on the conflict starts to draw away people from their toxic propaganda.

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      Don’t even waste your time in that echo chamber, it’s almost as bad as r/politics. They did you a favor by banning you.