so they want more of those AI deals that tell you to mix in glue with your pizza cheese or to eat rocks? yeah curious how not more of this has happened…
Reddit needs to stay up. It’s the last corporate stronghold of free speech. Moderators are not the corporation.
That being said, it’s definitely a shitty platform.
Aaron Swartz is smiling.
Good! Reddit is a cesspool anyway.
What’s this, consequences, who do thunk it?
So many comments in here, I haven’t read them all. I have some conjecture.
First, the AI scrapers already have Reddit’s most valuable content … their “virgin” data from the pre-LLM years. All new content is worth substantially less and much harder to differentiate / filter between bots/AI and real human interaction done without AI.
Second, the search engines that used to help drive users to Reddit mostly all have AI summaries / AI answers right there on the main search page these days. A lot of people read those AI results, get what they want right from Google (or otherwise), and never click any links over to Reddit.
Third, Reddit has expanded into other regions besides the western / us-centric world, such as India. The simplest way to put this is that the content and users from those regions costs Reddit US users and by extension advertising dollars.
Fourth, the corporate team’s decision making is bad enough to be harmful / fatal in and of itself. It’s sheer luck they’ve done as well as they have this long. Corporate is not only the worst enemy of users and communities, they’re also their own worst enemy. It’s so bad that if one of them was a competitor or adversary that had infiltrated the company in a covert operation to destroy it or gum it up, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
I mean obviously. All they needed was a single deal to get all the data. The funny thing about digital goods is you can copy it. Sure you miss the updated messages but that is less and less interesting as time goes by.
Fuck reddit . Especially the mods of /r/Utah.
Reddit is just Ai trash these days and the effort needed to block the Ai garbage bots near daily is insane. I come to Lemmy and feel happy seeing new shit. I go to Reddit and it feels like nothing but garbage.
Oh I’m not surprised, after what Spez did to the people of Apollo, I knew that shit was gonna end reaaaal quick.
I love all those “deleted comment” that keeps growing on Reddit. Users are waking up and destroying any contribution to that site, making it ultimately useless.
Wait till google decides to de-rank them for being login-walled. All those search results they’re using as leverage.
i’m only here cos reddit sucks donkey dick now. I think they just sold out and in turn have lost support. I went there for the news, before it broke else where. Now I never get breaking news and 80% of the posts I see feel like they are for teenagers. For Profit Pigs
