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Reddit stock collapses 23% as AI eats away at user growth (finance.yahoo.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50164893

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

I've heard a lot of cooing over the old days of reddit, but the old days of reddit also involved being a free speech absolutist enclave where r/Incel and r/creepshots festered for years. I think it got better in the middle, and that's when I joined and had a lot of fun for a while... But then Ellen Pao got ejected on a wave of sexist abuse and, well, I guess my point is that it was always kinda rotten so it was inevitable for it to go downhill like this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, fair. I suppose I'm glossing over a lot of the bullshit because I didn't engage with that side of Reddit. I think some of these problems are just with society or the internet as a whole. There are some pretty bleak communities on Lemmy too, unfortunately. I think my problem is more that Reddit themselves have killed off what was good about the site while amplifying a lot of the worst (remaining) aspects in the pursuit of profit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Agree. At this point it's the the cons of every decision and none of the pros it used to have 😓 Like, you're still gonna run into a shitton of sexism and racism because they'll never get banned as long as they don't say an actual slur... but also you can get auto-banned by AI for making a sarcastic joke. It's gotten harder to hold onto a community and moderate it effectively, but there's still a ton of mod squatters ruining what used to be decent communities. And so on.

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