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Most people don’t even now what a dark-eyed junco is nowadays, the numbers have dropped dramatically.

I curbed my use of Reddit about a month ago. I started getting low quality right-wing posts in my feed. Maybe it was an algorithm trying to egg me on, but it had the opposite effect and I left.

When all the A+ student’s leave (moderators doing the work, people writing good comments), the class goes on, but in a diminished form. It’ll be a slow decline.

kbin.social feels lively. Reddit just feels like a mine field of trolls/bots/conspiracies.

Google, ChatGPT, and all those language models are going to have a very hard time with this. People will change their old comments to random nonsense, so search results will that use Reddit will become random nonsense.

This will make Reddit worse. Some people will start to edit their comments to make them nonsense. Trust will erode further. Search will slowly become nonfunctional.
From a users perspective, coming across a nonsensical thread (because comments have been edited), is much worse than see deleted comments. Not only does trust disappear people, but people become angry that the comments are outright random/bizarre/lies.

Mine are back as well! WOW, talk about being a scummy company.