I got into a small discussion on another sub about the same thing. Most large scale or business/career focused subs are becoming more and more useless, same with anything even slightly related to politics. Out of curiosity I found an add-on for Firefox that shows account age, soooooooo many accounts under a year old.

I've gotten extremely ignore happy in the past few weeks. Anyone under 3 Years of age, auto-ignored. I'm sure I'm scooping up some real people but it doesn't matter. Any sign of using AI to create the post, ignored.

I'm noticing several trends. First, in smaller subs or things that are hobby focused without profit to be made, there's almost none of these accounts. Second, after I go on an ignore spree, larger subs will be almost dead: there's very few new posts per day from older, established accounts. Thirdly, these accounts replenish every few day and have to be ignored again while making the same kinds of posts.

Most of Reddit is definitely turning into AI created posts with some AI engagement and some genuine user engagement. I'm assuming for training/scraping or pushing a specific product/service. Comment threads with only older accounts are much higher quality than the mixed threads but almost always in the middle/low upvote range.

To me this feels like a failure of moderation, although Reddit admins may be to blame as well. If I were in a mods shoes I would push to ban any accounts under a certain age from posting, period, and additional measures on top of that. No one really cares though. My take is Reddit will be largely dead in a couple years except for subs that have zero commercial or scraping value which are VERY few. I'm hoping forums with very strict moderation come to the fore and things splinter but I know that's not going to happen.