cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/ask/p/1088403/what-happens-when-reddit-actually-dies-start-being-90-bots
Right now there is high bot activity on Reddit, but the high amount of users make it tolerable to some extent.
But one thing that I don’t see anyone talk about is what happens when bots to humans ratio become so high(>70%)? Like what if you checked Reddit only to see reposts and propaganda?
Following news websites does not have interactivity and more importantly, sharing events as it happens is something that is rare to get outside Reddit aed TikTok If I am being very honest.
I even stopped seeing more new memes outside meta platforms.
Is there is a forum/app for citzen journalism? Any crowdsourced tech tips forum exist?
it won’t.
fb/instagram are already there and nobody stopped using them in large numbers.
But I can tailor my feeds to be primarily people I know. Also, I have largely stopped using the feeds on these platforms. On fb, for example, I use Messenger and Marketplace. My feed, otoh, I scroll down through for a post or two that my friends made on my way to marketplace, then stop scrolling once it runs out of content relevant to me.
On reddit, content made by people I don’t know is all the content. So if it degrades in quality, I will stop showing up. Which I did. Which is why I’m here.