>Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI?

I would argue that reddit only survives today BECAUSE OF AI.

Reddit was in steep decline before AI came out. It fell far behind linkedin and a bunch of other social media nobody ever heard of.

AI wont even impact reddit. The API changes lost them a ton, they banned 50% off the site and they urgently tried to backtrack, they started acting like corporate scumbags post IPO.

The only way reddit exists today is that they use AI to create fake activity on the website.

lol, I'm not. I'm really objectively not. After Reddit turned off support for third-party APIs and Apollo stopped working, I stopped visiting Reddit. And because apparently Reddit doesn't work when connected to a VPN ("Your request has been blocked due to a network policy"), I simply don't bother going there anymore to either read or post.

No, I'm not. I haven't read more than the occasional one-off post in years. I stopped going to Reddit for a reason, and since then, there have been several more reasons added to that list.