Ironically, when people moved their communities to Reddit and discord they only helped to enable the AI theft of this culture

Forums were easy to search. The threads were mostly chronological and easy to stay in touch with.

These corporate platforms are designed to promote reposting. Always “new” content and impossible to find anything else. keep the user reloading that feed at all costs. And behind the scenes the corporations are mining your activity

I’m somewhat optimistic that as future generations of LLMs keep scanning this new LLM driven social media landscape, the models will collapse and the content will just suck more and more.

And people with interesting takes and novel ways of expressing them leave the corporate platforms, and we return to the humble days of user owned platforms without all the bots

After all, it’s easier than ever to build a platform now that we have LLMs to do all the chore work