• @TropicalDingdong
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    Its like having an AI assistant that shits the bed for you.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      It’s like having someone who is disguised as your assistant but is actually a salesman for anyone who wants to pay them.

    • SGG
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      2523 days ago

      If they can find a way to monetize it, yes.

      Example: Fuck brand X, use brand Y instead? Turns out both brands are Nestle.

  • @MrJameGumb
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    1322 days ago

    So, it’s basically just an ad delivery system now? If everyone leaves I wonder if the bots will just keep showing ads to each other?

    • Billiam
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      I wonder how profitable it would be to create a social media platform that was nothing but bots creating contents for other bots to consume.

      New head canon: that’s actually how Skynet starts.

  • @weariedfae
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    1223 days ago

    Fuck everything about that. I only wish I left reddit sooner.

  • Lvxferre
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    722 days ago

    A way that those suckers still stuck in that shithole could fight against this spam from within Reddit would be hostility. Basically: if someone mentions a brand, you tell them to sod off, call them a spammer, associate the brand with dead children, etc. Then the smart move from the advertisers’ side would be to avoid being mentioned in Reddit.

    Of course the suckers won’t do it though. Any Reddit user with a shred of self-respect and willingness to fight against the sorry state of the platform already left it. Or at most interact with it passively.

    • @[email protected]
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      That was tried long long ago, in the subreddit hail corporate. But the whole of Reddit mocked hail corporate. And now here we are.

      • Lvxferre
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        It’s less that it was the target of mockery and more like the target of whining. Like, “waaaaaaahh they mentioned r/hailcorporate again! This hurts my fee fees!”. With then bootlicking mods using automod to filter out mentions of that sub.

        Case in point yes, you’re right that it would be even less feasible now than it was before.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      About like 0.5% Max actually stopped using Reddit. The amount of people who “left” is/was MASSIVELY overblown.

      • Lvxferre
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        222 days ago

        About like 0.5% Max actually stopped using Reddit.

        It isn’t just people who stopped using it completely; it’s also people who were active there, and after the events started simply lurking. I believe that quite a bit of people did this (way more than the 0.5% who left), and that this is mostly overshadowed by the surge of bot content there.

        And even if only 0.5% did something different, it means 99.5% fit what I said in the second paragraph.

          • Lvxferre
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            Lurking Reddit isn’t quitting Reddit.

            Sure. And you are missing the point. I’m saying that nobody there will lift a bloody finger against the situation, because they either left (the 0.5%) or decided to lurk only.

            Is this clear now?