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I call bullshit. AI didn't eat their user growth.
They sold out the users, making the experience objectively worse. They turned the screws until many of the positive, helpful users left. They became hyper-toxic; now, no one wants to be there, even for the niche communities. They're moderating like they're at war with any half-decent human being, and now they've locked down the free/easy access, ruining the one remaining marketing trick they had (google search results)
The damn admins are right wingers, who TF wants to discuss anything under their rule
Insane braindead take
literally the correct take. EVERY single major website , YES INCLUDING THIS ONE , is very much run or funded by right-wingers.
I can actually EASILY prove this. Suppose that I were to suggest that one of the current left-wing groups in existence right now were ' supposedly correct' for using tactics that are 'supposedly not the most peaceful of tactics' because the members of these groups tend to be the victims of initial, needless, malicious 'not peaceful tactics' from right wingers and/or capitalists - so therefore two wrongs make a right...supposedly of course.
How fast do you think I would be banned from twitter, lemmy, youtube, reddit, instagram, fascbook, or any of these other major websites where human to human interaction is common?
Drivel. I lost brain cells reading this
Idk. Normies just talk to chatgpt these days. They don’t need to ask reddit
the problem with chatgpt is that it cant answer your complex questions.
Like suppose you have a question related to your cureent relationship with your friend or your lover or an acquaintance of yours or to one of their acquaintances and you and that person are ' stuck ' in an awkward situation or misunderstanding that is a one in a trillion situation and has probably only ever happened to you two or to another duo of people in history...what kind of answer could chatgpt give you that would be more specific than a human who can read the situation, compare it to their own past awkward situation and then give you a specific answer as to how they handled a similar scenario ? And lets just say its a situation that you should talk over or resolve between you and that person VERY soon.
I will admit Ive only used chatgpt once so I have no idea how it handles complex scenarios involving actual emotional and sentient humans with each of our own lives, traumas, journeys, destinations, routines, and every other thing that usually comes with being a human.
Am I right or wrong about this? Has chatgpt been able to do such complex analysis and complex suggestions to such situations?
You’d be surprised i guess
.... because? ...
Honestly I'm done with the moderation more than anything, I got so fed up with the blatant manipulation on one of the subs I've frequented for over a decade I wrote a script to see what was going on with all the silent removals and so much was just vanishing. Capture all the comments every minute and diff them, you'll see what I mean.
Realised the reddit most of us knew was as good as dead then to be honest. Powermods are a cancer and the only chemo is to leave the place altogether.
I have a serious question can I see like the evidence which you were able to gather from the use of this script? Its ok of you dont want to share cause I dont even know what a script is to be honest lol. Because I always try to archive something that these natsees do and this would just be another peice of evidence for me.
To be honest it was only ever a proof of concept, I ran it for a week or so and left it a sqlite database on my laptop. If you wanted to make a statistical case for manipulation you’d want to gather a more substantial dataset together, and you’d also want to label the data using NLP techniques.
I read the writing on the wall when they started clawing back free mobile access.
The first time a 'free' platform makes a desperate move, it's time to relocate. I wiped all my posts and left my accounts open. Then, I went back and wiped them again every time they magically reappeared.
I only left my posts in the sub that helped people understand Fediverse and Lemmy.
I didn't know they put posts back. I went in and wiped all my stuff around then too but I didn't look back.
I spent time over several months hand deleting my post one by one, and they don't show up for me.
But one time after deleting them, someone replied to one of those deleted posts, so I think they're visible to others, but not to me anymore.
I left all my accounts to this day because I don't trust them
You want to go more into that? Sounds super interesting, and not all of us have the tech knowledge to do that
So the idea is that you capture everything in the subreddit (posts, comments, votes if they're not delayed to the point of uselessness) and save it to a database. The API rate limit is low these days but not so low you can't do this for a moderately sized sub in the space of a minute or so. It's easy enough to write a script that does this capturing, and after every capture you compare it with the previous one. The difference or 'diff' between the two captures is the content which was added and removed between the captures. Take the removed content, subtract those deleted by the user, subtract those openly removed by the mods, and you get the silently removed content minus API errors, reddit's own anti-spam and so on. This is often quite revealing!
Obviously this is not a perfect method, reddit itself really hates people trying to impose transparency on its platform. It has long falsely reported votes, totals, and all sorts of information while particularly shower-dodging mods will deploy their own bots on top of reddit's own which can well beat your bot to the punch. This adds error to the process, but you can definitely see trends this way in my opinion.
Well, maybe AI can read the site and advertisers can sell their ads to the AI.
They gave their user~~base~~ growth to AI and AI ate it
Edit: I thought it over and user growth actually makes sense here
I love eating userbases. Just like how I eat a couple small rocks every day.
there are only three things I love in this world eating my family and never using punctuations.... (and eating userbases)