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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The rub here is content moderation. Remember when Amazon carried brand name everything, then it slowly became shitty offbrand ZERBONO and AQUIVOO socket wrenches and alarm clocks?

That could be reddit's future, times 10, if they don't get a grip on their spam bot problems. In the last two months, my sub of 60k started getting tons of offtopic posts from bots. Users would flag them as quickly as they were posted, but even with third party tools, we were starting to have trouble removing them in a timely manner. Bots don't sleep. Mods do. And without third party tools, blockers, all that...I shudder to imagine the cacophony of that many bots on subs like r/askscience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It seems like a move to collapse the parts of the site that are not controlled by Reddit proper.