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0 pointsrngname222y ago0 comments

on major meme subreddits, news subs, yes.

on social / relationship / alt lifestyle discussion subs, hobby discussion subs, product review/discussion subs, etc. the balance is a lot more even.

the power users submitting all the posts to /r/mildlysupercringeinfuriatingontwitter will pack up their toys and leave but the people using subreddits to discuss their niche outdoor hobby, their home reno DIY project, their alt sexuality, etc. will just keep on chatting away.

would not mind at all if every sub with more than 1 mil subscribers just got wiped and had to be replaced with new ones (maybe go to read-only / archive for the google searchability). like a forest fire to clear up front page real estate for new growth.

0 pointsrngname222y ago0 comments

on major meme subreddits, news subs, yes.

on social / relationship / alt lifestyle discussion subs, hobby discussion subs, product review/discussion subs, etc. the balance is a lot more even.

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gAI2y ago· 2 in thread

I imagine any large social media site is doomed to be overrun by AI generated content imminently, so it probably won't matter much either way. We needed to drop massively social media as a society, anyway. And it's not like we were going to do that without being forced. So I guess one point AI in a round-about way.

brucethemoose22y ago

If the bots pass the Turing test, does it really matter if they aren't human? Even if they are subliminally recommending hot singles in your area.

gAI2y ago

I downloaded 17,000+ of my reddit comments before deleting, so I can fine tune Orca into a digital ghost version of me. It will haunt the corporate ad bots that live in what remains of the old web. Or more likely I will not do that.

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brucethemoose22y ago

I don't visit Reddit often, but some tv/book fandom subs I check up on look deteriorated.

Part of this may be Discord sucking away some users though, as I see Discord links in the sidebars.

"Chat" subs (which I dont frequent myself) seem like they would be particularly vulnerable... But maybe not shrug.

dredmorbius2y ago

The distribution is all but certainly nearly identical, though the individual contributors likely differ.

Power-law distributions are extraordinarily prevalent in virtually all media, with a tiny fraction of contributors having an exceptionally outsized contribution.

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