When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious.
They have now positioned themselves as an ai-slop source of truth. Expect everyone interested in ranking well in google's AI Overview -- essentially every marketer -- to treat reddit as a high-priority slop/advertising target.
This is my view of Tiktok and Instagram as well. People always complain about how it's all AI or dancing videos, but if you use it properly you can very easily get thoughtful stuff. I get musicians, local restaurant recommendations, film analysis, simpsons clips etc.
It's up to you to learn not to doomscroll where it starts showing you garbage after it burns through your personal feed.
Maybe it’s just the way I use Reddit, but I still find it very informative and engaging. I subscribe to communities I can’t find elsewhere and the small niche communities there are fantastic. For instance, in r/peloton which I follow heavily, a number of pros post there and engage with their fans.
I stay far away from the front page, even my own. I use an rss reader for all the subs and when I want to comment I login into old.reddit.
Rule no 1 of Reddit is stay away from every popular subreddit unless you like low quality US politics 24/7. Even the one's not ostensibly about politics.
Is it really the moderators that make a community special? They are vital no doubt but I have never came here for the moderation.
For me the magic of a niche community like a subreddit or HN is when a 99th percentile expert in the subject shows up and gives everybody a brilliant lecture on the actual truth of things. These are not 99th percentile in Reddit use or post count or any of those things.
One of the shallowest “articles” I have read on HN. Full of unsubstantiated statements and banal platitudes. Non sequiturs everywhere. Weak conclusion built upon a list of unrelated grievances.
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When you let google read your site, let alone sign deals with them, you create commercial incentives to rank/post on reddit. Everything that follows is inevitable and obvious.
They have now positioned themselves as an ai-slop source of truth. Expect everyone interested in ranking well in google's AI Overview -- essentially every marketer -- to treat reddit as a high-priority slop/advertising target.
"Incoherent Conspiracy Suggests Ghislaine Maxwell Is a Powerful Redditor"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...
Edit: appears the answer is no.
You can get dirty by digging, of course. But there are still excellent communities on reddit that you really can't find anywhere else.
It's up to you to learn not to doomscroll where it starts showing you garbage after it burns through your personal feed.
The entire internet is really not much more than a strip mall at this stage with every site being subscription or ad based.
Lists, X/Y comparisons, em dashes, rhetorical questions... Just has a gross feeling to it.
I stay far away from the front page, even my own. I use an rss reader for all the subs and when I want to comment I login into old.reddit.
For me the magic of a niche community like a subreddit or HN is when a 99th percentile expert in the subject shows up and gives everybody a brilliant lecture on the actual truth of things. These are not 99th percentile in Reddit use or post count or any of those things.
Oh, that’s because it’s LLM slop.