I think Musk has shown that this is not accurate. Established players will play and smaller fish will die off as intended further consolidated a given field.

For the record, I am not happy about it, but I disagree with your assertion that LLM is not part of the consideration here.

Nah, it has a lot to do with AI.

Give it another 12 months when the rest of the web has been gunked up with AI written crap and reddit will be one of the few reliable sources of useful opinion out there.

Hell, it is right now given how frequently I and others append "reddit" to our google queries.

What you're describing is in a really rough spot already.

You need to append "reddit" to get any useful result, but unless you're on desktop, the mobile site is essentially broken if you're looking for answers. The app nag is omnipresent and the comment section is always broken after 2 or 3 comments with a "show more" button and lists of other posts.

If information is hard to glean from reddit, and the rest of the internet is AI blogspam, what is to be done?