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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by hylaride on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:07AM (#43266548)
Agreed. Over the past 2 years so many subreddits have devolved into what can be best described as doom scrolling ragebait, which is what reddit wants because it keeps eyeballs going for advertisers.

My city's subreddit when from "here's what's cool, going on, or new" to constant political posts. I'm Canadian and it's all but been determined that political forces are using AI posting to complain and point all problems at the current government (it's not clear who is doing it, whether far-right, foreign, or the opposition itself) on all Canadian focused subreddits.

There's also some curious stories about how a lot of the very good moderators of some of the larger ones like r/Canada, their provincial/city/regional counterparts, etc were all pushed out via various means.

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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by rwmj on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:14AM (#43267605)
I was talking to some reddit mods on a big subreddit and apparently it was to do with the free API being turned off, and a lot of moderation tools consequently stopping working. After that the subreddit took a nosedive because they couldn't control the flood of bots and bad actors.
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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by 34679 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:34AM (#43267929)
It's important to note that reddit has embraced bots since the very beginning, with the founders using them to inflate activity. As more and more bots flood the platform, they continue to displace and drive away real humans.
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Re:The Return of Digg, a Star of an Earlier Internet Era by Macha on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @09:18AM (#43266711)
My country's subreddit had a pretty big chunk of the country reading it, and it feels like the courts section of a newspaper gets posted to it every day, which I wonder how much that contributes to people's perception of the crime rate being worse than reality.
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