Tag Archives: Reddit

Reddit: The American Gated Community Masquerading as the Internet’s “Front Page”

In a dazzling display of hypocrisy that would make the Vatican clutch its pearls, Reddit continues to brand itself as the “front page of the internet” (now “The Heart of the Internet” – whatever that means!) while operating more like the front gate of a gated American suburb: armed with paranoid moderators, nosy bots, and […]

The Reddit Mind Control Experiment: How Swiss AI Researchers Turned r/changemyview Into Unwitting Guinea Pigs and Proved Bots Are Better Manipulators Than Humans

An image illustrating some researcher investigating reddit

In a truly groundbreaking discovery that absolutely no one saw coming except literally everyone who has spent more than five minutes on social media, University of Zurich researchers have confirmed what we have all suspected: AI chatbots are significantly better at manipulating human opinions than actual humans. The revolutionary methodology involved secretly deploying AI bots […]

The Great Reddit App Massacre: How a Website Declared War on People Who Made It Usable

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Build a better fishing app than the fishing company, and they’ll demand $20 million to keep fishing,” as the ancient tech proverb goes. Welcome to the aftermath of Reddit’s great third-party […]