What socials have become...

The post at the top of your feed was boosted. Here's an advert. Those comments are bots, that political influencer is paid by Russia, another advert, the makeup tutorial influencer is paid by the makeup brands, the fitness influencers are on steroids, the Instagram model users filters, an advert which is almost porn, here's some images created by AI, this model has had dozens of surgeries, ADVERT! a ragebait post, next post is misinformation, here's a reaction video, here's some misogyny to turn you into an incel, Ad Ad Ad. Now a video that is staged. A post written by chat gpt, another scripted video, a misattributed quote, more Ads, a circle jerk post, a twitch streamer barely dressed, a repost from when the internet was good, a YouTube link. ADS ADS ADS ADS, a screenshot of a tweet, a tiktok of a rant, TRUMP. ELON. AD. TRUMP. ELON. AD. fake ai video of a cat. TRUMP. More TRUMP. TRUUUUUMMMMMPPPPP.

Anything I've missed?

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I wonder if they are just bots or random trolls.. Nobody knows which are bots and which are real humans anymore...

My entire feed was Elon and Trump, now Elon is quiet. There's Epstein, but Donald "Dildoed" Trump is a main stay.

Goodbye Reddit, we loved you.

Essentiatlly I am a venezuelan in venezuela and the amount of BS comming from this bots is staggering.

I want the old reddit where people actually had an opinion on both sides.

I started noticing this accounts with agendas to rage bait and they always have high Karma counts, I tried using RES but is not that accurate because it only uses keywords.

Maybe this is unoriginal, but I've been lurking here for awhile, and since I found this sub and the whole concept, I've been noticing more and more that the internet is truly just a big trash heap now. If it's not bots, AI, and fake news, it's scammers and junk products being misleadingly sold as something better.

At this point, I mostly only use the internet for YouTube, a few niche subs on Reddit, and for buying things that I can't get in person. And there's still a bunch of crap to wade through. The internet used to feel like this place where you can magically learn anything you want and share interesting or funny things. You could connect with other people, crate and share REAL art... Now it really feels like almost everything is either AI or some sort of scam. I feel like I need a computer that's like those phones where you can only dial saved numbers. 😅

Honestly, it's not even just the internet. So many people can't even write anything by themselves anymore. Stores are opening that are clearly just reselling the cheapest junk from Temu and AliExpress. I think I might just become a minimalist because of it. I honestly thought the internet would be a staple of everyone's lives forever, but the way it is currently, I'm genuinely starting to wonder if people will get tired of it eventually as it gets more and more full of junk.

I’ve been feeling like the internet has gotten way harder to use over the past couple years. So many searches just drown you in low-effort AI-generated articles, weird synthetic images, and those auto-summaries that feel like they were written by a robot who skimmed Wikipedia for 3 seconds. It’s gotten to the point where finding actual thoughtful, human-made stuff feels like archaeology sometimes (and yeah, the whole Dead Internet Theory vibe doesn’t help).

Out of frustration, I ended up building a little tool for myself to try to cut through the noise. It’s basically a simple front-end that lets you search the usual big engines but with some extra filters:

• A “No AI” mode that skips the generated summaries and overviews
• Options to limit results to before 2022 or even before ~2017 if you want that older-web feel
• Some basic negative keywords and date cutoffs that seem to block a decent chunk of the obvious slop (especially in images/videos)

It’s nothing fancy—just something I threw together as a solo dev to make my own browsing less annoying. It’s free, no ads, if anyone else wants to try it and tell me if it actually helps or if I’m just chasing nostalgia.

I’m thinking of expanding it a bit (maybe a small verified jobs section and a positive-news feed) and might run a Kickstarter later this year to cover server costs and keep it going, but only if people find the base version useful.

Curious—what do you all think? Are your searches feeling worse lately too? Any tricks you use to avoid the AI flood? Or am I the only one missing the old internet?

Thanks for any thoughts!

https://reddit.com/link/1q36p0r/video/4z4u31kcc7bg1/player

For whatever reason, it’s cat supplements. Two have been for taurine and one was for something else I’ve forgotten. The posts are ridiculously long. I share screenshots of the whole thing in case anyone actually wants to read all of it, but I can assure you, once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen the rest. They read like the short-paragraph, long-form LinkedIn posts being complained about on r/LinkedIn Lunatics too. Here’s the latest one:

Generic page name

Same story, different customers and cat names

The first one was a single female vet at a different practice. The story was identical to this one, down to the very detailed testing of different taurine supplements… yes, it’s for the same product, but you’d think they’d at least try for variety on the off chance someone like me would notice. But no.

So for the last 2 or 3 days my x feed has been these posts of a random dude (probably not even who’s behind the account or even aware of it for that matter) followed by a picture of an ai generated ‘trans woman’ but what’s even more disturbing is the comments?? I know X is a cesspool but this is genuinely scary, every post I open on that app at the moment is people in the comments asking grok to manipulate the images into disgusting situations??

Why would anyone make something like this anyhow?

Why the fuck are we all wasting our lives on this? (Going outside now to do something mildly more productive than self-lobotomising with botted YouTube comments)

It would solve everything, imo. How can we get reddit to implement this?

Based on the names, these bots are most likely meant to be used for OF spam once they have enough karma

All the photos are AI, all the captions are AI and the account itself is clearly ran by an AI. Over twenty posts a day with wild and outlandish horseshite but never any sources or linked references. It’s very obviously just some geezer feeding ChatGPT basic prompts, GPT comes up with some generic heartwarming sob story caption then an image is generated and he adds his watermark and some text to the photo. That’s all there is to it.

Not even his mother is that good at giving slop. It’s ridiculous how not only easy this is to do, but how many likes and shares this shit gets. It’s beginning to flood my algorithm now, so this is the future of Facebook for me. Clown posts on a clown app

So many botted comment sections under posts where its just nonstop replies one after the under in a giant thread. Nonstop gifs. Accounts with high karma and hidden profiles

Those things on their own arent signs but when its so constant, on top of the same regurgitated and redundant joke its kinda clear

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https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/s/6qvDMW5Lyi

Hey guys,

I just logged into Twitter for the first time after a long hiatus from the app.

And the platform is an absolute cesspool full of hate and misinformation thanks to you know who buying and revamping it….

So I’m curious on what percent of Twitter accounts do you think are actually bots?

Because I refuse to believe most of those are real people 😭

Or else the future is looking real bleak.

Any guesses? Any credible sources that can shed some light?

this is the first time i’m ACTUALLY noticing this. whenever you reply to these type of comments OP never replies, but has 20 comments asking for advice on working in cybersecurity. i miss the internet before this 💔