I have no sympathy for those who suckle at the corporate teat.
Nothing to see here folks, just reddit continuing to dig its own grave.
Digg its own grave? (sorry)
😂
i don’t buy this “continues to fight AI scraping” bullshit for a second. they literally ceased API access for regular users after they sold the rights to google to specifically scrape their site with AI.
Fight AI scraping by anyone who hasn’t paid them for the privilege.
What’s Reddit?
:(
Never got into new Reddit. It feels so charmless and soulless.
It’s optimized for pictures and videos and ads. The old layout works better for text and links and it shows. Old Reddit was perfect for quickly checking a niche subreddit - just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche. Maybe you also read some text posts with questions. New Reddit is optimized to keep you scrolling and to put an endless stream of ragebait in your face.
just skim the 20 or 30 headlines, open interesting links in a new tab or check some comments and you are informed about what is currently happening in that niche
I think this is a big part of why they’re trying to kill it. They want to trap you in an endless doom scroll. They don’t want you to be able to quickly see there’s nothing new and get out. Everything you look at needs to be another attempt to ensnare you and shove ads in your face.
Again?
Haven’t been on Reddit for over 2 years
It all went downhill when the government killed Aaron Swartz.
And now the oligarchs behind the big AI firms ingest pirated scientific papers at enormous scale to build their products, and they see fuck all consequences for it. It’s quite plausible the very papers Swartz was hounded to his grave over ended up in the training data. Justice is a fucking rare thing.
Not just that but it’s also spez hostile takeover.
Man I know I’m the minority here, but once I see a paywall, age verification, or logon block, I just move on with my life. It’s not that important… Or there are other sources.
I don’t think you’re in the minority here
Maybe not * here*
The day they blocked my old.reddit is the day I came over here. It honestly was easier than I thought, there are only a handful of communities I really miss, and those were all getting filled with AI bots anyways. It’s emptier here, but at least I’m talking to actual people.
Welcome aboard.
I came over well before that but I’d still land on the odd link from search or something. Then it asked me to sign in and now I ingore reddit links 🤷
Red-what? What the fuck is that?
Where you came from
Ohhh. The dark place. Botville. I hardly remember it at all now.
Fuck Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
So if I understand this right… people who left because they were mad, won’t have an old reddit to ever come back to if they ever decide to go back and haven’t logged in for awhile?
yes, around 6 months or you can become a moderator
So just make your own sub is enough?
It likely will only work for that sub. Betchya Redit will still block users from subs you don’t actively moderate
been banned on reddit for stating the truth already and tried many times to fix things. reddit is anti free speech on all accounts when it was nothing inflamatory just stating truth and their mods are mostly corrupt anyway for their industry agendas. lots of ai bots and spam. useless platform when it gets incorporated it becomes useless
At the end of the day that site is private property and at anytime the owners can boot anyone out they deem as “harmful”.
Same is true here. But with the fediverse, if you feel a instance youre on is shit, you can switch and still be on lemmy. No more searching for a new service. We are home. Even if the house burns down now and then we will rebuild in the same damn place.
Fuck you, spez.
It was good while it lasted. Join Digg and geocities I guess. Reddit In Peace
My thoughts exactly
