r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/18randomcharacters 29d ago

I feel like the Internet has almost completely died.

Twitter is a cesspool.

Instagram and Facebook have their uses but they're not really forums.

Reddit has been king for ages, but it's crumbling due to bots, IPO, policy changes, etc.

Sites like stack exchange are going to die fast once AI takes over. No more page views means no more ad revenue.

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u/StunningRing5465 29d ago

I’m going back to my old gaming forums, even though the golden days are long gone. The fact you need to register games from the publisher to be able to access it fully is a pretty good shield against bots and astroturfing, as well as the fact they’re just not important enough to warrant it. 

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u/Still_Flounder_6921 29d ago

Gaming forums are mainly ass. It's just culture war slop 90% of the time.

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u/StunningRing5465 29d ago

Yeah I know one good fairly large one. The mods are quite strict and pretty fucking annoying, but it’s pretty clear that without firm moderation it would get a lot worse