Reddit Cofounder Says 'Much of the Internet is Now Dead' (businessinsider.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/15/1736225/reddit-cofounder-says-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead
- Source link: https://www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohanian-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead-2025-10
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohanian-much-of-the-internet-is-now-dead-2025-10
Be very quiet (Score:2)
We're starting a new internet for people, don't let the bots know.
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Not worried. Real talent is obvious. I remember hearing Aaron Lewis (Staind) and Fred Durst playing "Outside" on the radio back in 99/2000, thought it was a decent song at the time. Didn't know that Aaron came up with it right then. Can AI come up with anything authentic sounding like that? [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7E1S8iNl60
He must be an expert on this. (Score:3)
He must be an expert on this. After all, Reddit is 90% karma-farming bots reposting reposts of reposts.
It's become nearly useless other than for narrowly-targeted searches of things one is interested in purchasing, or fixing, or whatnot.
Re: He must be an expert on this. (Score:2)
Can confirm. Reddit has banned the real people.
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Doesn't help that everything I want to reply to is always archived.
Time to go back (Score:2)
Time to go back to local bulletin board systems? I still have my Wildcat installation diskettes.
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I sometimes wonder if going back to smaller enclaves with limited inter-connectivity (FidoNet/RelayNet for example) wouldn't be better for us than what we deal with today with global social media. Sure you would end up with lots of tiny echo chambers but at least their blast-radius on society at large would be greatly reduced. Sadly pretty sure that ship has sailed forever.
Of course it is (Score:2)
To most people out there the "internet" is social media. Just like to a lot of people in the 90's AOL was "the internet"
He oughta know... (Score:2)
...since Reddit's full of them.
This CEO drank too much of his own CoolAid (Score:2)
Reddit was already a brain dead lump of little dictators moderating their subreddit out of existence year ago.
Anyone with a deviating opinion or even disliked by some moderators were booted from the platform.
The internet is better off without Reddit.
It's been said for a bit now. (Score:2)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson even popped off something about how he sees the internet de-evolving into AIs slinging data at AIs and expects it to become nearly unusable for humans in the fairly near future. He expects humans to retreat back to books and other printed media in a few years. I somehow doubt that will happen for younger generations, but us old timers probably will as we watch the rest of the world continue to melt into the AI driver shitstorm of hallucination mixed with misinformation.
Always has been. (Score:3)
Before the bots, it was troll farms. Now the troll farmers have lost their jobs, replaced by software. Plus ça change, plus c'est le même chose.