Thanks, yep this is it, thanks ๐
ultratiem
joined 1 year ago
Holy crap the dude looks Ross Marquand its uncanny lol
Why am I not surprised! Musk is absolute cancer.
Oh I did not now this. Did this happen before or after Spez's API freakout?
Reddit also released a new ad system that imbeds products in a "real life way" so you can get bots replying to users asking question that look 100% genuine but are run by say McDs. So if someone asks hey what do you eat in a given day, the bot can come in, totally organically, and say "oh i usually start my day with eggs and toast then for lunch I get a mcwrap because they're on special for the month of march". They "learnt" that people don't write McWrap so they are trying to plug products basically how we do.
Which makes recommendations suss af! I feel almost paranoid going there these days like are half the posts and comments I reply to real??
Digg is basically credited as being the catalyst for Reddit, giving it its initial strong launch and overall growth trajectory. Reddit was a place for nerds. As it grew and started hitting mainstream, that changed. But without the users from Digg, Reddit would have likely been as popular as Twitter at the start, a platform that has historically struggled to be relevant. At it's inception, I think only about 10% of new account holders would remain on the platform. Maybe even lower. That's a stark contrast from say Facebook that had something like a 90% to 95% retention rate.
Don't even get me started on that. I made a post that blew up (7k upvotes) and literally the entire comments section was the same responses. Out of the 100s that replied, only 10% or less were novel.
I didn't even know this was a thing lol
That makes sense tho given how the FV has pretty low engagement and most of it is still good bots doing housekeeping or trying to boost exposure.
I guess I just didn't think Reddit would collapse sooooo fast!
Been mostly the same for me. If I ask a basic question like how to turn on Find My, I most likely will get a slew of downvotes and then one good samaritan post up the answer. If you ask a more technical question, like why is Find My iPhone using location services indefinitely, literally the entire website is like ๐คทโโ๏ธ
And what's worse is that in a few years, thanks to "AI" learning how to mimic us, there will be full on accounts that look legitimate at every level. Probably even have other social media connected to boost validity. But at the end of the day, it's just a sophisticated bot trying to sell you McDonald's.
Really????
We might need to take to this a lemmy vote lol