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Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast.

It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.

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Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged.

Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt.

The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.

Reddit has always been fake, but it used to be a real person performing creative writing pretending to be a true story. Now it's spammed out slop at scale.

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