- cross-posted to:
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- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
- technology@beehaw.org
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It’s really bad. I still check-in on my niche subreddits from time to time, but most of them are down to 1 or 2 mods. They’ve also changed the default sorting from Hot to Best, which mostly seems like a way to cover-up the fewer original posts and discussions going up. The whole site is a shell of its former self.
Every post in AIO and AITAH reads like some AI fantasy specifically written to drive engagement and outrage.
I asked GPT-4o mini to generate two AITA posts. They’re undistinguishable from the bullshit typically posted there!
AITA for not inviting my sister to my wedding after she made a big deal about my engagement?
Hi Reddit,
I (28F) recently got engaged to my fiancé (30M), and while I’m over the moon, my excitement has been somewhat overshadowed by my sister (32F). When I shared the news with my family, I expected everyone to be happy for us, but my sister reacted very differently.
Instead of congratulating us, she made a huge scene, saying that I was rushing into things and that I should be focusing on my career instead of getting married. She went on to criticize my fiancé, saying he wasn’t good enough for me and that I could do better. It was really hurtful, especially coming from someone I’ve always looked up to.
After that, I decided to keep my engagement low-key and not share too many details with her. I thought maybe she just needed time to process the news. However, she continued to make snide comments whenever we spoke, and it felt like she was trying to undermine my happiness.
Fast forward to now, I’m in the midst of planning my wedding, and I’ve decided not to invite her. I feel like her negativity would only bring me down on what should be one of the happiest days of my life. My parents are upset with my decision and think I should at least give her a chance to be there, but I just can’t shake the feeling that she doesn’t deserve to be part of this celebration.
AITA for not inviting my sister to my wedding?
AITA for refusing to babysit my sister's kids after she constantly criticizes my parenting choices?
Hi Reddit,
I (30F) have a sister (28F) who has two kids, ages 4 and 6. I love my niece and nephew, and I’ve always been happy to help out when my sister needs a babysitter. However, over the past year, she has become increasingly critical of my parenting choices, even though I don’t have kids of my own.
Whenever I share my thoughts on parenting or how I plan to raise my future kids, she often dismisses my opinions and tells me I’m wrong. She frequently compares my hypothetical parenting style to hers, saying things like, “You’ll see how hard it is when you actually have kids,” or “That’s not how you should do it.” It’s frustrating because I’m just trying to have a conversation, and I feel like she’s belittling my perspective.
Recently, she asked me to babysit her kids for a weekend while she and her husband go on a trip. I initially agreed, but then I started to think about how she’s treated me lately. I decided to decline the offer, explaining that I didn’t feel comfortable babysitting when she constantly criticizes my views on parenting.
Now, she’s upset with me and has told our parents that I’m being selfish and unsupportive. They think I should just suck it up and help her out, but I feel like I’m standing up for myself.
AITA for refusing to babysit my sister’s kids because of her constant criticism?
Yeah, it’s egregious. At least before AI people put a little effort into their creative writing practice. Those subs were always overrun with aspiring writers, but now the stories aren’t just fake, they’re lazy AI slop too.
AITA for using chatGPT to farm karma on a dying website?
In a wider context. It prevents consumers of information from becoming producers of information. If you are in a thread (reddit, stack overflow, w/e) and happen to know an answer or have extra useful information, many people will type that out in a reply. However, with a chatbot, there is nothing to reply to. No place where the wealth of human knowledge can be expanded. Your experience and knowledge is kept to yourself.
This not only means the conversations never happen, it also means future chatbots don’t have this information to work with, as they require the conversations in the first place to draw from.
This AI shit is stupid. I don’t trust anything I read on the internet, and don’t try solutions unless they come from a reputable source, or are verified in the comments. Remove the context and I lose that trust.
Even the archive.org version is pay walled for me. Very strange.
Huh, so it is. Sorry about that, I didn’t notice. Unfortunately, it looks like the Atlantic doesn’t play nice with archive sites anymore. I use a Firefox extension called Bypass Paywalls Clean, so I’ve never have issues with paywalls.
Excellent! Thank you, I’ve updated my original link to this version.
many sites are readable via Firefox and noscript (which you should be running anyway for all sorts of reasons) and/or Firefox reader mode. the atlantic, wapo and many more are like this.
nyt, bloomberg and others use more sophisticated paywalls.
🙄 the majority of reddit users are followers. They will follow trends. Reddit is still hot, cool, and trendy. They won’t quit it until the next thing comes along that gets hyped up and that all of a sudden their best friends have. Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever. People complained about their app, but most just shrugged, downloaded it, and dealt with the new interface.
I disagree - I was on Reddit since before the Digg exodus, so I may or may not know a few things. There was a big mood shift after the mod strike. It really shook the page - some subreddits never “recovered”. Some that were popular before are still in a kind of lockdown. Some have new mods which are not doing a really great job. There were a few that really grew. But overall, Reddit lost a lot. People did delete decades of useful advice. Regular users left. The new ones are … different. In many cases mobile users that kind of seem to use Reddit as a chat platform, but they are not posting really insightful comments. Some are indistingushable from bots. Many are bots. Some mods have just given up and gave up moderating popular subreddits, which are now drowning in repost bost. There are bots replicating whole threads under reposts. Many subreddits are just old screenshots from Twitter. It’s wild - but it is hollow. And that was different a few years back.
Reddit has become a zombie website.
All of the cool people left and the only people that are still hanging out are the people who don’t know any better and the people who are there to try to market themselves as some kind of brand.
I was a Reddit refugee.
A year or so into Lemmy and I don’t want to have a Reddit account anymore. I go back and view “All” every once in awhile, but Lemmy and Loops give me all I need.
No other social media or content aggregators besides those.
I’ve not logged in on my Reddit account since that big group boycott and switching to Lemmy.
If Reddit didn’t hold some specific info for certain video games or just a much larger group participating in Tech/Selfhosted subreddits, I’d rarely have to visit the website.
Honestly, to me the Reddit demise was happening organically anyway. For a lot of weirdly specific topics, Discord has become a good alternative.
Now just don’t get me started on Discord and how it will eventually have to better monetize the platform and ruin that too. Wish Matrix had a soundboard for voice chat 😢
What do you mean by soundboard?
Jesus, here we go with that useless ai license nonsense lmao
RePoSt ThEsE maGic wORds tO StoP eVIL TEcH NerDS fROm StEaling yOuR pErSOnaL datA!
Like the online equivalent of a sovereign citizen
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I wish there was a real alternative to Reddit. This place is mostly shit posts and bootlickers
Well fuck off then
No :(
