Reddit did WHAT?

Absolutely horrid feature. Supposedly it's to protect vulnerable people's privacy if they post in certain communities, but if they truly wanted that to be how it's used, they'd have limited the ability to apply the feature only to subreddits where mods have specifically coordinated with the admins to get approved as places where vulnerable people are posting. Or, and here's a shocker, they could just rely on the tried-and-tested method of using alt accounts. Instead, bots and trolls just hide their entire post history from people.

Now, supposedly, mods can see the full, unhidden history of any user who has recently posted in their subreddits. Which is good. But the number of other good-faith users being obstructed by this change is huge. It's overall a massive failure from Reddit.

Most of Reddit was bots interacting with bots a while ago already.

Never been more glad to have left that sinking ship early

Congrats for the moderator of /r/Jailbait for becoming a billionaire! /s

Mfw putting "author:username" into the Reddit search bypasses this

Bots only upvote their own bot circle or content which makes their owners $$$$.

Real human concerns will only be heard if they align with $$$$.

We are remaking the whole world for bots.

I see it a lot with AskReddit, surveying (or possibly influencing) how people feel when something happened in the news. Those posts get bumped to the front page.

Reddit is bots talking to bots

It seems to me that the combination of AI + engagement stats + advertising rates is probably enabling historically massive fraud.

But if the perpetrators of the fraud are tech giants worth trillions, and the companies selling the ads are the same tech giants worth trillions, how are individuals and small companies supposed to make good decisions about their ad budgets or do anything about the fraud?

I'm not going to shed any tears for the advertising industry, but I'm not looking forward to the side effects if the AI bubble pops and vaporizes $10 trillion of tech market cap. (all the big players would still be worth a trillion dollars but people would lose their shit)

Is reddit dead yet?

Wait, hold on, slow down. Are you telling me there are bots on Reddit?

All while they partner with Google for ai training.

bots on fedi have been probing for an algorithm to exploit. not getting far, just annoying.

Idk people used my reddit post trails to be creepy little bitches back in the day.

I've memorized most of the comment scripts on reddit at this point. Going to the comments is like eating dog food because youre bored.

Reddit was interesting before politics became interesting