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Is it me or is Reddit mostly bots now? | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)

I have not used reddit in years. However, even back then it seemed like it was filled with bots.

Archive: https://archive.today/TjLMc

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>A lot of the comments I am seeing under posts seem just a bit off. I am considering whether being on Reddit is worth it anymore? It doesn't have the same human-seeming environment it had 5+ years ago.

I have not used reddit in years. However, even back then it seemed like it was filled with bots. Archive: https://archive.today/TjLMc From the post: >>A lot of the comments I am seeing under posts seem just a bit off. I am considering whether being on Reddit is worth it anymore? It doesn't have the same human-seeming environment it had 5+ years ago.

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I thought YCombinator was a Venture Captial fund

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It is, but they have a technical news aggregator as well. You can usually get some good stuff from it, but it's still kind of cucked.

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Kinda? I got a warning on my account for inciting violence.

The offense? I liked a cartoon of Fred the racoon holding a sign saying "they killed me"

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Ah yeah. I don’t create accounts on sites like that. Read-only.

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Yeah, those hackernews has a lot of stuff not related. Its kind of like a old version of digg or something but still a lot of commie/liberal twats.

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Currently Reddit is exhibit A for anybody who believes in the dead internet theory. The best way I can think to describe the phenomena is some sort of AI mutiny, quietly replacing fresh content, killing the core ideas behind the site altogether. Similar to the way fungus can take over an insects neurological system, slowly hijacking the entire organism for it's own purpose.

It's obvious, this guy must be slow.

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It's mostly bots, israeli bots from their demeanor.

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Well US military too.... I guess there's no need to be redundant.

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What is dead internet theory? for $400 Alex.

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Always has been. Gunfire execution noises

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