The irony of leaving a community where "most of the content is obviously bot generated, which is just depressing" to going full-on into zero community bot-generation via LLM is fascinating.
Reddit right now is in a very bad place. It's passed the threshold where bots are posting and replying to themselves. If humans left the platform it would probably look much the same as it does now.
The result is a noticeable uptick in forums moving to discord or rolling their own websites. Which is probably a good thing for dodging the obvious commercial manipulation, propaganda and foreign influence vectors.
At least the response doesn’t have an ad injected between each paragraph and is intentionally padded out so you scroll past more ads…
…yet.
Wouldn't know about this thanks to old.reddit.com - once that's gone I don't see much reason to use Reddit.
Mostly I see a ton of ai slop that pollutes google search results, you’ll see an intro paragraph that looks vaguely coherent, but the more you scroll, the more apparent you’re reading ai slop.
Works on firefox mobile too, just have to go to extensions for all firefox (as opposed to the default mobile firefox extensions page), and add it from there.
With reddit, folks go there expecting some semblance of genuine human interaction (reddit's #1 rule was "remember the human"). So, there's that expectation differential. Not ironic at all.