Edit: we’ve made it! Timelapse
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Also, please no “tHiS iS eNgAgEmEnT fOr rEdDiT” comments. Would you rather have no such banner? As I’m not pushing anyone to become a long-term active user on Reddit, I don’t see any benefit for the company from this. If you have a spare account, this may be a good cause to fire it up for a few hours.
Luckily the group doing the message about third-party apps is very coordinated and using bots of their own, so they have so far been able to protect it for a few days now
So it didn’t take long for Reddit to turn into bots interacting with other bots
Dead Internet theory
Not a theory anymore. It’s becoming a real life experiment at this point.
That is spooky. Of course I had to go look it up. Contrary to that first part of the Wikipedia page, this is no longer conspiracy. It’s becoming the reality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
That’s Reddit for real now. Especially with the rise of AI and similar
Reddit is Deaddit.
I was going to ask if anyone was using bots to keep their messages up. That’s cool!