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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] givesomefucks 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're ramping up bots to cover the loss of users.

Very very few people actually post, and a little more comment. But as bot posts became the majority, lurkers are going to start leaving as quality dips.

[–] Chailles 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe just me, but I totally want to see a Reddit where everyone actually is a bot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There used to be a subreddit like that. Haven't seen it in years. Not sure if it still exists.

[–] ttenborough 5 points 1 year ago

Subredditsimulator...

The creator said they were shutting down the server that ran it and wasn't interested in rebuilding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can't just have bots posting to each other over and over forever, either. Bots need to pull from what they're trying to imitate, and LLMs learning from themselves are already showing to be problematic.