Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'
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Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says 'much of the internet is now dead'
- Alexis Ohanian said that the internet is less human now, and much more "quasi-AI."
- "I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge that's verifiably human," he said on TBPN.
- Ohanian mentioned the "dead internet theory," which Sam Altman has also recently referenced.
If you make a new account a post something vaguely critical of this administration you get shadow banned.
Then you complain about the human to bot ratio?
silly, reddit moved past that, you can get shadowbanned almost as fast you create a account. apparently it so sensitive now, that posting too fast, or in a sub with high karma, or cqs score, or not doing genuine scrolling will get you shadowbanned. i suspect that is why they start closing posts much earlier than usual, on the shadowban sub, to silence people from discussing thier bans.
its reccommended to "warm up your account before posting"
These barriers filter out real people. The ones that get through are determined. They will have a vested interest in doing so. Such as bot farms, state actors to garden variety internet trolls, or other agents with ulterior motive.
The average user isn't going to be figuring out how to game the system. They'll frustrate and leave. Or even continue posting unaware their posts and comments are not visible.
What's stupid is that reddit has filtered for the lowest common denominators (read: idiots). A while back was ridiculed on reddit for saying you need to bake accounts. The digital literacy has stooped so low that users on there can't fathom such a concept.