They login gated and banned the ability to criticize reddit on r/mildlyinfuriating. Reddit cucks
because they think they can make more money that way, and they don’t care about the users even one little bit
To drive you away
It’s why I moved to Lemmy - that and completely borking the site while using most VPNs. F-that. If you can’t allow my VPN, I know you’re wrong, not me.
welcome - on desktop a nice lemmy client is this: https://phtn.app/
you can run selfhosted.on mobile - boost for lemmy is super nice for android.
fuck reddit
Really? Well I guess I’m really never going back now
They’re just following Facebook and Instagram. If anything, the surprise is them not doing so sooner.
So they get another page view every time you have to refresh to see the content behind the pop-up.
If they wanted to force logins they’d grey out the text like newspaper websites do.
Soon you’ll not be able to use your computer without “logging in” (Giving ID)
Quit using corporate social media.
Because business types eventually ruin everything.
Social media companies and self-destruction, name a more classic combination
The corporatocracy does not believe in the values of a open and free Internet. They have show us their hand over and over again. Why people keep playing when they know they will lose to the house is beyond me.
Line is definitely not going up.
The stock market is downvoting the fuck outta RDDT.
All of their business decisions for the past few years have been centered around monetizing Reddit content as training data for machine learning models. Most likely this recent decision is an attempt to block data scraping.
It’s gonna block sign ups. Why the fuck do I sign up without seeing shit?
Not like reddit is relevant these days.
Not like reddit is relevant these days.
Even within the lemmy user community people still occasionally refer to reddit because there isn’t a better source for some things. Outside of lemmy, reddit is a household name alongside facebook, snapchat &etc; people who don’t use it still know what it is. I think your conclusion is more aspirational than currently real.
The opacity is going to make the issue very real. A site like that goes stagnant without new blood.
Oh absolutely, I think that is already happening, but it hasn’t reached broad public awareness yet. Reddit has 20 years of momentum, it won’t stop all at once.
I suspect the company is aware that user engagement is dropping, along with the quality of new content. Typical of most corporations, their response is to play defensive, to try to maximize the value of what they already have, to scratch and claw and squeeze every drop from the existing data. This will accelerate the decline, obviously, but when a company is in this state they consider any strategy besides protectionism to be too high a risk.
They will ruin themselves with cowardice, to be sure, but they’re still coasting on momentum for the moment. They will continue making the same types of decisions, at an accelerating pace, as the desperation sets in.
Everything posted in the last few years should be considered poison anyway, so I don’t know why anyone would pay for it to use as training data.
Why anyone would train an AI on Reddit is beyond me, the only worse platform I can think of is 4chan.
Because it has years of helpful troubleshooting guides, solutions to problems, and conversations. also there is an llm trained off 4chan, gpt-4chan.
Volume, and breadth of subject material. For language model purposes the specific content isn’t really important, it’s the wide variety of language samples from many sources, all in the same data format. You could get similar samples from other platforms, but you’d have to compile them from multiple sources and then standardize them somehow for input as training data.
I browse reddit without logging in and with an adblocker. From their perspective, I’m a parasite using resources but contributing nothing; I’m proud of that.
Simple, reddit just want lemmy to succeed, so they gave us another shot!
Because they’re assholes. They don’t care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.
I don’t really understand why new reddit would generate more revenue than old reddit. This is kinda a baffling change all around.
You cannot assume that the people making decisions are rational, smart, people. They may believe falsehoods, and act accordingly. They may be chasing a hidden goal (eg: “I get a bonus if I hit X metric, so I’ll kill good parts of the site to do it”)
I worked at a place where management was like “we want to increase time on site”, and the lead dev was like “I can just add loading spinners everywhere then”. Luckily management was a little smarter and move involved than that, and didn’t approve that strategy.
Websites have to search for new revenue streams. They don’t just walk into a corner of the internet and think “drat, someone already has a forum for that!” and walk away. They come up with some unique twist people won’t have normally thought of and run with that until it stops working. See this guy’s comment below:
With reddit they need to be able to show that their advertisers aren’t just serving ads to bots (although we’re seeing ads for bots now apparently). They have to prove a certain number of real human beings saw something thus the login requirement.
Now, people used old reddit because new reddit sucks. New reddit just shows you the top few posts, and makes you expand replies, thus proving you’re something they can bill for. This also serves the purpose of pushing nuanced, long running discussion down to where people don’t see it. Just look at the cat picture, upvote it, and move on.
And for the record reddit has been crap for a very long time. At least since whoever that lame ass admin was who went into the backend database and edited someone’s raw post, and if not then, then Victoria getting the axe should’ve been a red flag to everyone that you weren’t a member of reddit…not really. I know there were some local meetups in that timeframe. How awkward do you think the AMA local BBQ was? Do you think reddit cares?
