[spaceman_2020]

Honestly Reddit and Twitter feel like the only “real” places left online, provided you have a curated feed.

The web is practically dead. I use search less and less. Most content creators I know have abandoned/are abandoning blogs and written content because its just not worth competing with the SEO farms and Google’s whimsies.

[ryandrake]

Both platforms are already pretty obviously overrun with automated/staged content. This commenter[1] has it right. Very soon now, any site that allows anyone to sign up for a free account is going to very quickly end up saturated with LLMs LLMing at each other, totally closed loop and automated. Including text and multimedia. I wouldn't be surprised if it's already starting to happen on HN. 100% we are moving towards Dead Internet Theory[2].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551598

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551410

[raydev]

This assumes no curation, and the people I already follow will replace themselves with AI bots.

[smhenderson]

What's Twitter lol?

I found it to be a cesspool before the name change and it's only gotten worse.

I suppose I'm conflating "enjoyable" or "tolerable" with your description of "real" but everything I've glanced at from a distance lately defies your description of Twitter as real.

[fer]

> Honestly Reddit and Twitter feel like the only “real” places left online

Barely use reddit since the API shenanigans, and I guess I never curated my Twitter feed because every time I go in I just see people getting angry and enjoying it.