ultratiem

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Thanks, yep this is it, thanks 🙏

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Holy crap the dude looks Ross Marquand its uncanny lol

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Why am I not surprised! Musk is absolute cancer.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Oh I did not now this. Did this happen before or after Spez's API freakout?

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Reddit also released a new ad system that imbeds products in a "real life way" so you can get bots replying to users asking question that look 100% genuine but are run by say McDs. So if someone asks hey what do you eat in a given day, the bot can come in, totally organically, and say "oh i usually start my day with eggs and toast then for lunch I get a mcwrap because they're on special for the month of march". They "learnt" that people don't write McWrap so they are trying to plug products basically how we do.

Which makes recommendations suss af! I feel almost paranoid going there these days like are half the posts and comments I reply to real??

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Don't even get me started on that. I made a post that blew up (7k upvotes) and literally the entire comments section was the same responses. Out of the 100s that replied, only 10% or less were novel.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

I didn't even know this was a thing lol

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

That makes sense tho given how the FV has pretty low engagement and most of it is still good bots doing housekeeping or trying to boost exposure.

I guess I just didn't think Reddit would collapse sooooo fast!

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Been mostly the same for me. If I ask a basic question like how to turn on Find My, I most likely will get a slew of downvotes and then one good samaritan post up the answer. If you ask a more technical question, like why is Find My iPhone using location services indefinitely, literally the entire website is like 🤷‍♂️

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

And what's worse is that in a few years, thanks to "AI" learning how to mimic us, there will be full on accounts that look legitimate at every level. Probably even have other social media connected to boost validity. But at the end of the day, it's just a sophisticated bot trying to sell you McDonald's.

ultratiem OP , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

Yeah Ars has already called them out for being basically an ad company that cares only about shoving as many ads and paid content as they can in your face.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

Reddit has hit rock bottom. I was banned from a sub because their bot crawled thru my history and found I "interacted" with subs they didn't like (subs like fauxmoi). I said the fit on this girl didn't do her justice and was shadow banned and my post locked because the sub apparently didn't allow criticism of any kind. And that's what Reddit is now. Subs with power hungry mods and admins, Reddit staff not even giving a fuck anymore, all of it makes the place such a ridiculous silo that if you say anything out of line in any sub, it's downvote and likely removal of content at this point.

All the tech savvy people left (obviously) so now its edgy jokes and dumb suggestions. Call them out, and boom, downvote mob coming in hot.

What a fall in such a short time.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

No, the body is removed and replaced with a banner that says the user deleted this post. Only the headline survives because that can never be changed.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

They didn’t “say” anything. Look at the screenshot. There’s no body, just the headline. So they literally went to that sub asking if there was an alternative.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

All school programs are basically bought and paid for by big business. Adobe, MS, all control their bottom line this way. So of course they’ll only teach you MS Office and Photoshop.