I was testing this back in the winter. I missed the original dead internet theory discussions and was curious.
From my point of view, reddit is pretty dead, not sure there's any real conversation going on there. Of it's own doing, of course. Censor and create echo chambers and people leave. Even the people who would ideologically align with the echo chamber become bored of the lack of conversation and move on.
It's interesting, what's the point? Is reddit preventing a digg-like crash by producing fake bots. Reddit api yahoo changes suggest it's not external.
Now, I also looked into what they seem to be investigating on how to fix it. Their approach seems to be idiotic at best. Like they don't acknowledge what even caused this to them.
Now the dead internet theory isn't accurate. It's very obvious facebook and X are real conversations. It's just a matter of hasbeen social media pretending they didn't die is kind of a new thing.
From my point of view, reddit is pretty dead, not sure there's any real conversation going on there. Of it's own doing, of course. Censor and create echo chambers and people leave. Even the people who would ideologically align with the echo chamber become bored of the lack of conversation and move on.
It's interesting, what's the point? Is reddit preventing a digg-like crash by producing fake bots. Reddit api yahoo changes suggest it's not external.
Now, I also looked into what they seem to be investigating on how to fix it. Their approach seems to be idiotic at best. Like they don't acknowledge what even caused this to them.
Now the dead internet theory isn't accurate. It's very obvious facebook and X are real conversations. It's just a matter of hasbeen social media pretending they didn't die is kind of a new thing.