- 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.
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.
i always criticized various times, when on reddit articles like these pop up about reddit having too much bots, reddit doesnt do enough to stop them, goes after normal people, of course there are serial people that get banned. buts nothing like the bots/spammers. the ones that can bypass this already can do it with hundreds of accounts. reddit needs the bots to look like they have alot of users, plus propaganda helps with a constant stream of engagement. im on another forum where they have various tactics/paid methods to game the system, they arnt stopped although they said reddit recently changed something so thier detection is even better now.
my theory is reddit doesnt want to spend any resources Moderating people anymore, they just want people to just browse the site and log on, of course ad revenue exposure.