and yet tech bros scrape it for model training and content research. i used to like AskPhilosophy and the likes back when it wasn’t wackjob agora for clinically insane (a decade ago in not more?) but seeing that shit getting mined is baffling because it is basically a deliberate data contamination.

Reddit should crack down on human users instead! Let Reddit be AI Bot Exclusive space!

That’s some rice field level bullshit

except for Steve Hoffman forum. It’s a colloquy

probably depends on how people use in different regions. down here it is mostly a news aggregator or thematic dumpster type of thing - so kinda like reddit. i had to look up when was the last time anyone wrote DMs to me in Telegram and it’s been a little over 4 years. Viber is the go-to messenger down here, followed by WhatsApp and Signal and it is always a headache to figure out who is using what and when someone uses a couple of those it is a bitch to find anything across multiple chats.

well, duh. it is also deeply annoying to navigate. It is like even shittier and less engaging reddit