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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead' (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@piefed.social
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  • Alexis Ohanian said that the internet is less human now, and much more "quasi-AI."
  • "I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge that's verifiably human," he said on TBPN.
  • Ohanian mentioned the "dead internet theory," which Sam Altman has also recently referenced.

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[–] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you make a new account a post something vaguely critical of this administration you get shadow banned.

Then you complain about the human to bot ratio?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    silly, reddit moved past that, you can get shadowbanned almost as fast you create a account. apparently it so sensitive now, that posting too fast, or in a sub with high karma, or cqs score, or not doing genuine scrolling will get you shadowbanned. i suspect that is why they start closing posts much earlier than usual, on the shadowban sub, to silence people from discussing thier bans.

    its reccommended to "warm up your account before posting"

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    These barriers filter out real people. The ones that get through are determined. They will have a vested interest in doing so. Such as bot farms, state actors to garden variety internet trolls, or other agents with ulterior motive.

    The average user isn't going to be figuring out how to game the system. They'll frustrate and leave. Or even continue posting unaware their posts and comments are not visible.

    What's stupid is that reddit has filtered for the lowest common denominators (read: idiots). A while back was ridiculed on reddit for saying you need to bake accounts. The digital literacy has stooped so low that users on there can't fathom such a concept.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    i always criticized various times, when on reddit articles like these pop up about reddit having too much bots, reddit doesnt do enough to stop them, goes after normal people, of course there are serial people that get banned. buts nothing like the bots/spammers. the ones that can bypass this already can do it with hundreds of accounts. reddit needs the bots to look like they have alot of users, plus propaganda helps with a constant stream of engagement. im on another forum where they have various tactics/paid methods to game the system, they arnt stopped although they said reddit recently changed something so thier detection is even better now.

    my theory is reddit doesnt want to spend any resources Moderating people anymore, they just want people to just browse the site and log on, of course ad revenue exposure.

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    • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, and thank you for that by the way, dickhead.

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    • [–] [S] 12 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    So, is there a way for us to be that next generation where we can verify that we're human?

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Dicks out for verification

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    What… what if you don’t have one…?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    A dick is just a clitoris that got reconfigured by one's genetics prior to birth, I'm sure those would count too. The few folk with rare genetic conditions that cause them to be born without any genitals at all will be out of luck though.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago*

    Humanity isn't something we verify it is something we cultivate.

    The obsession with verification comes from an empty conception about humanity.

    The question isn't really how do we verify which of us is human, the question is what spaces have degraded sufficiently that the mark of human interaction is no longer discernible in the noise and what are the mechanisms in which they have done so?

    Systematic tolerance or indifference to hatespeech is one great way to degrade the humanity of a space for example.

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    • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    We'll make our own internet then! With free software sharing! And Fediverses! In fact, forget the normal internet! :)

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    [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Not that any of these people contributed to it or anything...

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    I torch the forest to the ground

    I bet this ground will be lush again! - I say triumphantly to the ash wasteland around me

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    reddit is mostly bots now. 50-60%

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