Marketers and their bots have been using reddit to hype up brands. No wonder Reddit feels like shit these days.
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Oh, this is great.
Users noticed that Google had too much bad results because of SEO and spam flooded search results.
Users added “reddit” to their search terms, so they get results from reddit, where spam and astroturfing were… there but manageable.
Now the SEO people and advertisers target reddit with AI tools, until it is so enshitificated that we have to find something else (rinse and repeat)
“No, don’t leave, we just finished saturating the space with ads!”
“Why do you think we leave?”
Reddit right now is banning any criticism of ICE. Reddit covered up for Ghislaine’s account (maxwellhill), even though they’ve attended very public events with her as CEO Ellen Pao revealed, and they have narcissistic megalomaniac psychopath Jibberish (deliberately mistyping) who has trained decades on how to be the best psychopath they can be on social manipulation MMOs also heading and manipulating their “conservative” subreddit, who subscribing to also seems to be a flag within the system to begin showing you subs engineered to manipulate you with their messaging. Oh, and all the other non-conspiracy theory stuff, which there is plenty of.
Hear me out. A single person, normal human being, posts maybe a couple of times a week. Add a 0,1 local denomination currency per post to lemmy/piefed, whatever. Advertise the platform as bot proof. Profit.
Plot twist: They did not build shit, the text is generated by AI, and whatever they do is still done by third country workers.
Reddit is the new Facebook. Kids don’t think it’s cool so they avoid it. Got this first hand. It’s got a big userbase so it’ll take a while to topple, but they probably already know this and will squeeze everything out of it to the last drop.
It used to be a place I could turn to to get some real reviews, in sofar that it ruined google, and now I can’t trust any of Reddit’s content anymore because of things like the OP.
here is to hoping that lemmy never grows
The linkedin writing format must be banned, exhausting, unreadable and way too self important. It’s not a haiku write like a normal person you lunatic. Also these bots are destroying public forums, don’t expect any praise from me.
Lemmy just BLEW AWAY the LinkedIn Writing Style.
A few simple witty posts have utterly upended how we communicate on the internet.
Normal Users:
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Post replies
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Up and Downvote
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Embarassingly minimizing the display when your boss approaches the desk.
And maybe that works for normal online interactions.
Sure, it’s fine if you’re an entry level Lemmy user
But you’ll never change the culture of the internet.
So we came up with
Something that’s
Even better than
What we used
To post like
Before
We first started using
This online
digital service
For posting our
Thoughts to
Other
Pe
ople
It’s called memes.
memory lane man
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Decent chance that post was written by AI as well. Or it was a marketing copywriter. Either way it wasn’t written by a normal human.
Anyone that works in marketing needs to be flogged in the streets for their crimes.
I get the feeling you and Bill Hicks would have gotten along: https://youtu.be/9h9wStdPkQY
Nahhhh. When ads are clever or funny its fine. This lower effort bullshit need to die
Nah. manipulating people into buying things they don’t need is a trash career. It’s not a productive or necessary job. It hurts more than it can ever help.
What a self report. This guy is complicit in turning the age of information into the age of propaganda.
“These days”? Reddit has been hot garbage since before the 3rd party API bullshit
Its scum behavior but its smart. If you can get your product into a reddit thread that gives a ton of free high quality advertising. Its why the site turned to site so fast once normal people found out about it. Suddenly you had products being shilled in every community and threads created solely for the purpose of posting a reply that said to buy a product. AI is just a cherry ontop of the already souless reddit behaviour and quite frankly its what they deserve.
More than a decade and a half later and pretentious SEO fanatics still fucking make my eyes roll.
They make me think of kids who hide food they don’t want to eat in stupid places and get all surprised when they realize it makes wherever they were hiding it into a biohazard.
Or anyone who thinks they are getting a free benefit from using something a certain way and completely ignoring that each use ruins it a bit more.
Never forget that the morally correct thing to do if you happen to meet one of these people it to punch them in the mouth.
God, I just hate the way these people fucking talk. Everything is a bulleted list and sentence fragments.
100% written by an LLM. They always use this tone and it’s infuriating.
People who abuse GenAI no longer can tell when the shit they post look like GenAI. They only talk to AI so it looks normal to them.
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That’s one of the signs of LLM output, take any idea and have it flesh it out into short article. It’ll bullet point the crap out of it
LLMs learned it by watching these idiots.
Yeah, but even when it’s not an LLM, they type like this now
Monkey see, monkey do…
Like the world’s worst haiku.
Reddit feels like Quora at this point with all the affiliate links and promotions
the internet needs to be burnt to the ground and built back up for humans to humans. I hate this timeline were are living in
