Reddit somehow detected that I’m interested in AI and Data and auto-subscribed me to several hundred AI and Data subreddits. This turned their feed to an endless slop machine. Every single pre-IPO hype post or or doom prophecy would pop on my feed multiple times per subreddit, 5 if it was Sam Altman’s. Multiply that by at least 100 AI subreddits and you get the idea. You are scrolling and scrolling without seeing a single cat. Claude this, Sam Altman that, Anthropic this, I vibe coded this genius thing, and then Sam Altman again.
Rather than adding Reddit to the list of sites I ignore, I followed the subreddits where I’ve recently posted comments, and then disabled the following setting:
I greatly recommend this approach. Cats, rockets, and cars showed up again. The apocalypse is muted.
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I hate it when a site thinks it knows what I want to see more than I do. No… really… I want moar cat videos.
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Yeah I don’t mind seeing some high quality tech news but there is so much money on the line for AI, that it’s nearly 100% spam.
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You know what we call that phenomenon.
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What do we call it?
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Increasingly more useless/crappier info/ads from a site that is supposed to be giving you what you’re interested in but is now only about chasing the almighty dollar for themselves? That, my friend, is the definition of enshittification.
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Whew.
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