Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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cheese_greater
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in reply to return2ozma • • •Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it's something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They're only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.
Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?
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in reply to UnequalExchange • • •UnequalExchange
in reply to BuckFutter • • •Lemmy doesnt have a laundry dedicated community anywhere that Ive looked.... reddit does however....
So I guess the Lemmings let mama and dada do their laundry for them still 😅
BuckFutter
in reply to UnequalExchange • • •UnequalExchange
in reply to BuckFutter • • •there's so many things that go into laundry care that mostt people need to know about but will never choose to learn about
Like iif your detergent uses certain enzymes then you cant use that detergent to clean wool clothing....but the thing is that like 95 % or more of all detergents have enzymes in them....so....
Also if you live in apartment building what rights do you have to clean out your washing machines' filters? What ability do you have to clean those filters?
Also which detergents are asstastically bad scams and should never be considered as detergents? Which detergents are actually good? Which companies have bribed those in the media to make it look.like their laundry based products work bbetter than theey actually do? Which detergents shoupd you consider for different msterials? How mucj will they cost over time? SHould you just make asnd use your own homemade detergents?
also Do homemade eco friendly fabric softeners exist and should you even use fabric softeners at all?
How good are copper and lamolin coated clothing at clesning themselve
... Mostrar másthere's so many things that go into laundry care that mostt people need to know about but will never choose to learn about
Like iif your detergent uses certain enzymes then you cant use that detergent to clean wool clothing....but the thing is that like 95 % or more of all detergents have enzymes in them....so....
Also if you live in apartment building what rights do you have to clean out your washing machines' filters? What ability do you have to clean those filters?
Also which detergents are asstastically bad scams and should never be considered as detergents? Which detergents are actually good? Which companies have bribed those in the media to make it look.like their laundry based products work bbetter than theey actually do? Which detergents shoupd you consider for different msterials? How mucj will they cost over time? SHould you just make asnd use your own homemade detergents?
also Do homemade eco friendly fabric softeners exist and should you even use fabric softeners at all?
How good are copper and lamolin coated clothing at clesning themselves as both of these substances have been found to have anti microbial properties?
How do other regions that dont have easy access to washing machines and dryers do their laundry? Can we take any advice from theiir methods?
How eco friendly are certain types oof clothingsa and even certain types of washing methods? It has been. shown that some of the biggest polluters of microplastics into our world today are microscopic specks from cleaning aritficial fabrics like polyester
Ar ethere any scam washing machines or dryers in the msrket today? How can we tell that they are garbage at cleaning and drying clothing?
When you hhang dry clothing what types of methods could you use to ensure that you dont promote the growth of certain hydrophobic microbes?
The topics go on and on....
Lemmy has no community dedicated to talking about any of these topics...
BuckFutter
in reply to UnequalExchange • • •Well if you ever decide to start a dedicated laundry community, I'll subscribe. Sounds like you already have the perfect sidebar material written out already lol. Cheers!
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in reply to UnequalExchange • • •ipkpjersi
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in reply to ipkpjersi • • •True. And it sucks.
The way I see it is that as long as Lemmy doesnt become as amazingly terrible as reddit or faceboook or twitter there will be such communities created eventually....may take a decade or two for people to birth them and moderate them but they are almost inevitable to come into existence if the demand for such communities gets big enough.
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ipkpjersi
in reply to UnequalExchange • • •UnequalExchange
in reply to lagg_mine • • • There isnt even an intactivism community here bruh!!!
Heck there isnt even LAUNDRY community on Lemmy!?! How yall existed for this long with no laundry community yall?!?
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EowynCarter
in reply to lagg_mine • • •That's the problem with changing social networks.
People goes where people are. So it takes some major scew up from the current networks. Or a newcomer that have some killer feature everybody will want / need.
And lemmy lacks that "killer feature"
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in reply to lagg_mine • • •Yeah, if I want yoyo stuff, I have to go visit r\throwers.
Pretty much the same if I need mechanic info.
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in reply to lagg_mine • • •CheesyFingers
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in reply to lagg_mine • • •BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan
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bedwyr
in reply to BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan • • •Yes I would be pleased to expand thank you for asking.
Lemmy is a mini reddit, moderators own the space, like a feudal lord. To take off, as an alternative to the feudal spaces of big social media, we need to offer a better alternative.
To that effect, a clear set of moderation rules would help, and for that set of rules to end in a jury trial of members.
Sickday
in reply to bedwyr • • •AmyAye
in reply to bedwyr • • •What I don't get with this federated software, Lemmy and Mastodon. It's ripe for essentially, server level verification of identity. And I don't mean check every ID of every user.
But like, this threat talks about game communities. Some larger company, Microsoft, maybe even Valve with Steam, could easily run an instance, and have "official" forums this way. Any anyone on any instance can subscribe and visit. But that way you know that like, I dunno, lame.microsoft/halo is the proper community for Halo. Sure, there may be others, but it can become the place of record with announcements etc.
Same for Mastodon stuff. But that would be more for individuals. But also stuff. Like you could have movie.studio/tom.cruise and it's verification that it's the proper Tom Cruise posting. That sort of thing.
Plus, smaller communities have less potential burden from a few large accounts loading the system down.
Etc.
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in reply to Kowowow • • •Zagorath
in reply to tf1 • • •riquisimo
in reply to tf1 • • •What, they're not on neoseeker?
I joke, but really why not try going back to bulletin boards again? Neoseeker was made for games and it always had plenty of users. It's at least better than reddit.
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in reply to tf1 • • •CheesyFingers
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in reply to bedwyr • • •the problem with uBlock there is thst sometimes on reddit they post like 'Advertisement Posts' ...Like actual posts that are not about that niche community in anyway but are nothing more than an advertisement for a comoany and uBlack obviously cant block that.
Ive seen it a few times in the past but its been like 4 years since Ive been on reddit so I dont know if theyve stopped doing that.
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Iusedtobeanalien
in reply to DaddleDew • • •I'm banned
Permanently
You are banned for this comment which you can't see
Bastards!
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BillionaireStew
in reply to Zagorath • • •GitHub - redlib-org/redlib: Private front-end for Reddit
GitHubdreamkeeper
in reply to Zagorath • • •Exactly. They definitely care. They want the AI companies coughing up dough for all that data.
Thankfully redlib still works
Zagorath
in reply to dreamkeeper • • •For now
Tollana1234567
in reply to DaddleDew • • •FiniteBanjo
in reply to DaddleDew • • •Reddit at one point filtered millions of bots monthly and transparently filed public reports on the actions they had taken, even citing the source of these bot networks if a notable number of them came from places like Russia, China, Myanmar, etc.
That was a long ass time ago, though. Before they killed off the free API access in 2022, and the 3rd party apps and accessibility layers with it.
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in reply to eddanja • • •aeronmelon
in reply to return2ozma • • •Yeah…
AI bots….
That’s why.
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in reply to return2ozma • • •Those RSS feeds have been so heavily rate-limited over the past year that they were practically unusable already. I'm glad they're finally making an announcement about it. No more ambiguity. No more aggressively sporadic 403 and 429 errors.
Go ahead and kill the only reason I ever used your site.
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in reply to return2ozma • • •A mild realization just hit me. Reddit used to come up in daily conversation, even with randos. Now when I mention it nobody even knows what it is, and those that do remember it... speak of it only as this vague place they used to go years ago. "Oh yeah I remember reddit"
E: fyi I'm talking roughly circa 2008-2013 when every last bricklayer, sewer technician, and 7-Eleven worker "found" the platform
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in reply to DrSoap • • •Really? Wow. I have no way of really knowing for sure but I am pretty convinced that they reached maximum saturation of their user base 10 years ago... That's why there was this sudden whiplash pivot to forcing Indian, Pakistani, and the European content to the front page.
I saw that as the indicator that the North American market had been penetrated as far as they were going to penetrate, and they were looking abroad.
Now with what you're telling me it's making me question reality, I don't think there's a person on the planet that isn't aware of reddit, I think people just don't want to use it anymore!
Question, where have you noticed these advertisements?
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in reply to Krudler • • •Reddit never came up in daily conversation for me. It came up only occasionally, and it actually seemed to do so more often after it went public.
It was a weird coincidence
Pringles
in reply to Krudler • • •The only time it comes up in conversations is because my buddy discovered reddit only like 3 years ago, when I had just moved to lemmy. He still sends me reddit links several times a week.
Then there is the tech support side, because name it and it’s been posted on reddit, usually with the solution, but now everybody just AI’s the shit out of that so that has become less relevant.
And that’s it. Everyone else that I knew that used reddit has moved on years ago.
cmnybo
in reply to return2ozma • • •DaddleDew
in reply to cmnybo • • •FridaVermercury
in reply to cmnybo • • •I'd like to believe it is but I also know that the majority of people online do not give a damn about user experience and things getting shittier. I do not understand these people, but its because of them this shit is still happening. If they all left sites like reddit there'd be no incentive to become shittier and shittier.
Not trying to shift blame though, in the first place its companies like reddit even coming up with strategy who are to blame.
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in reply to cmnybo • • •RxBrad
in reply to cmnybo • • •Anything with an even mildly AI-adjacent topic is a solid 75% bots right now...
/r/nvidia, /r/amd, /r/hardware, etc, etc..
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in reply to RxBrad • • •imetators
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in reply to cmnybo • • •Design was inspired by piefed. Had 3k hits last month
Zyke: Discussion Forum. Talk, explore internet culture and ideas.
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in reply to cmnybo • • •walden
in reply to return2ozma • • •The reddit community that I'm still sort of active in relies on RSS in order to run and judge contests. We have a portal which sucks comments in via RSS because they revoked the API key which was used for the same purpose.
Without RSS, we'll either have to come up with some other way to pull in reddit comments, or force everyone to use PieFed.
My vote is for the latter, of course!
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in reply to IamMoonPie • • •bedwyr
in reply to Tollana1234567 • • •Brimstone
in reply to IamMoonPie • • •They own those bots though most likely.
Just like the same endless crap keeps showing up on my meta feeds from bot accounts because it gains traction
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in reply to DudeImMacGyver • • •A literal corpo!!! In the flesh! With human rights!
Damnit what have we become?!?!?
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LovelyMover
in reply to return2ozma • • •I posted on a food sub, saying "that looks incredible* something innocuous like that.
Bot removes my post, contact mode team because I cannot quite believe what I read. Auto mod, (cannot believe it was a human), tells me the same thing. Reddit has profiled me as being disruptive & I can post once I have "improved my standing"
Things like this are a red rag to me, always have been. Anyway, the food sub is muted, & reddit can get fucked, I'll post my opinions whether any bot likes it or not till I'm inevitably banned for failure to "conform" to their disgusting agenda.
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in reply to LovelyMover • • •I was in a discussion on the post election political situation in Sweden right now and from nowhere my five year old account got flagged as "suspicious" and locked until verified. For whatever reason it refused to hit me with CAPTCHA and the likes. I had no email registered previously and could not verify. I tried a couple of temp email but got no verification sent there. So I registered a throw away at a legitimate email provider and changed it there. Nothing there either.
But I also have mods and at least one admin that doesn't like me from long ago because I make fun of Nazis. So maybe I am "suspicious".
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in reply to LovelyMover • • •YragNitram1956
in reply to LovelyMover • • •Reddit has become unusable. It has moderaters that are censorious, sactimonious, petty and do not care about. free speech. Adverts are becoming unbearable and the riculous time limits drive me mad! The inane Avartars are imbecilic too.
capital5
in reply to LovelyMover • • •Eventually, all these tech companies scale up to a size where they don't have to give a shit about people anymore. They only care if you're a celebrity or somehow manage to create a big PR show that they have to respond to. But at this point, regular people are just like blades of grass that will eventually get mowed down somehow and there's nothing you can do about it.
Now it's dead and time to move on.
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in reply to capital5 • • •Sergio
in reply to capital5 • • •Enshittification - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Tollana1234567
in reply to capital5 • • •on reddit, BILL gates was on the sites for a few years, and then he vanished around epstein getting arrested, hmm guessing epstein news was potentially going to out him too, thats why he stopped. even his "covid vaccine" philantropy was a vaneer of what he wanted.
now another celebrity, GARY sinise suddenly was on reddit alot, starting right before trumps 2nd election, suspicious i think not. providing military propaganda for conservatives on the site, he also seems like he acts as he was a vet himself. then on youtube saw his "im leaving hollywood" interview, he said it was his SON that was the cause, but im thinking the winds were changing and his republican whom he announced publically on election year was going to cause him to lose roles in hollywood. hes has a wierd obsession with vets.
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in reply to dukatos • • •I've been wondering about something like this for years. Websites have been aggressively enshittifying for a long time now. Everything defends against accessing their content via any unapproved means. Getting a full resolution image from anywhere via image search becomes more difficult every day. If a search engine lands you on a site, the site deliberately withholds the content that brought you there and dangles the carrot to keep you using the site for as long as possible, always making sure you fall just short of what you're after so you keep looking. Most links that you share directly from your URL bar are littered with telemetry data so that unless you first sanitize the link, sharing it on social media means that now the site is able to link your session to the account that shared the link and map your social connections on platforms they don't even own.
I have a foreboding of a future internet where everything, even the structure of URLs themselves is obscured behind a layer that is opaque to the end user. People will be completely locked in to only using the site in
... Mostrar másI've been wondering about something like this for years. Websites have been aggressively enshittifying for a long time now. Everything defends against accessing their content via any unapproved means. Getting a full resolution image from anywhere via image search becomes more difficult every day. If a search engine lands you on a site, the site deliberately withholds the content that brought you there and dangles the carrot to keep you using the site for as long as possible, always making sure you fall just short of what you're after so you keep looking. Most links that you share directly from your URL bar are littered with telemetry data so that unless you first sanitize the link, sharing it on social media means that now the site is able to link your session to the account that shared the link and map your social connections on platforms they don't even own.
I have a foreboding of a future internet where everything, even the structure of URLs themselves is obscured behind a layer that is opaque to the end user. People will be completely locked in to only using the site in an approved manner from an active account in "good standing" with the platform. You can use the site as normal as long as you're logged in, but the URL itself would only ever be something like website.com/sU6ecjejfE32Jy7w94. You could share that link as normal and people could click it and be directed to the thing you want to share, but they can't view the content without logging in, and even if they don't log in, the mere fact that they clicked it still links the two of you together in the user map. Nothing ever escapes the sandbox and nobody is able to share content from the site unless they accessed it from approved means, and they can only share it to others who are also using approved means. The more websites adopt this model, the more user-mapping takes place until eventually anonymity on the internet is completely dead. Every single site knows exactly who everyone is and every social connection that they have. Everyone who refuses to submit to this new paradigm is blocked from accessing the site at all, yet they are still mapped all the same. Making a new website that's this restrictive would probably mean that it never gets off the ground, but making that change on a platform where users are already dependent and tolerating increasing levels of enshittification just might work. If one major platform pulls it off, others will follow.
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in reply to raspirate • • •The world wide web a legacy platform at this point. It's treated as such by both the tech industry and average people. Most people use social media through apps. All the government organizations and banks are consolidating their services to apps. Nobody makes their own websites anymore.
The reality hasn't sunk in yet for the rest of us, but it's happening. We assumed it would be a forever thing once it was created. It turns out the world wide web is going to be brief historical period at the turn of the century that you tell your grandkids about.
Maybe some day the PC will go back to being a novelty appliance found in few living rooms. Where you have to power it up, sign on, and browse the few handful of websites in existence. When you're done, you turn it off and go about your day again.
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in reply to OctopusNemeses • • •Venia aka: Veñya
in reply to raspirate • • •Me: [presses PrntScrn, shares the result of that]
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in reply to return2ozma • • •No, they aren't. The headline is just a giant lie. Why would anyone pretend to believe it?
Reddit was destroyed by bots years ago. So that's nonsense. But they have two strong reasons to pull public access. First, if the public has access to the data, then companies won't buy it for AI training. Second, if the public has access to the data, they can prove (as we already knew) that Reddit is full of bots, so there is no reason you would want to buy training data from it.
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in reply to madcaesar • • •Ah I didn't realize that had ended.
Welp I'm sure there will be others trying to get into the game but none likely as lucrative.
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in reply to fodor • • •berrodeguarana
in reply to return2ozma • • •I know we all collectively hate Reddit here - no sarcasm on my end -, but I hate to think what it's gonna be like 10 years from now.
The sheer amount of good information I've obtained from Reddit over these last 15 years: mental, physical health, nutrition, tech, jobs... all for free, as it should be! It's insane when you think about it.
Imagining a world where I'll have to get charged to search every little thing, and yet get biased information due to ads and marketing... All of this sucks so much.
How are you guys gonna cope with this? What do you intend to do in the future I mean.
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in reply to partofthevoice • • •The information will still be there as long as they don't remove entire posts by users who have deleted their user names and keep an archive going.
Someone should be making a reddit archive site. Like an exact read-only clone to retain all the information people have access to before they remove it all to accommodate Ai on their servers.
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in reply to partofthevoice • • •you mean r/jailbait?
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in reply to Regrettable_incident • • •no time like the present to create it on lemmy and recruit in DM's :)
best yet, you could DM the historians with the best mannerisms.
Once you get a number of reasonable posts on this side, you could ask people on their site for assistance on questions from here :) lowkey advertising until they shut you down over there.
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Zonetrooper
in reply to rumba • • •So. Early, early on I did reach out to a couple of them.
Unfortunately, there are some frankly terrible communities on Lemmy who engage in some pretty awful hatred and historical denialism, and they weren't interested in moving to a community that wouldn't dissociate with that, much less one that is actively run by the same people.
And like, we can repeat to the end of time that Lemmy is a distributed community and each instance's choices don't reflect on others. But the reality is that people do look at the largest instances not shutting that crap out, and it does color their perceptions.
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in reply to rumba • • •BillionaireStew
in reply to berrodeguarana • • •Ending the public API also prevents reddit users from deleting their post history without manually removing each post.
If you want to scrub your post history and prevent reddit from profiting from your input, use Power Delete Suite while you still can.
github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
It is unlikely that reddit allows users to delete their content from the backend but this at least keeps your posts out of search results, which is a large part of their value.
GitHub - j0be/PowerDeleteSuite: Power Delete Suite for Reddit
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in reply to berrodeguarana • • •This. It was a golden age of information and community availability, and it's going to be hard to put that back together. Especially since the prior eras of distributed sites, we had functioning search engines.
And yeah, sure, it can be rebuilt... but there's going to be a long time of awful isolation until it is.
Gorilladrums
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gwl [he/him]
in reply to berrodeguarana • • •People said that about Digg 15 years ago.
Things come and go, people make solutions
Venia aka: Veñya
in reply to berrodeguarana • • •Books and that kind of stuff, for some of that. Most of the useful information on health, nutrition, sports and the like came from people because it came from books (that people read).
For the rest, hope that more people to community bootstrap.
Bluescluestoothpaste
in reply to berrodeguarana • • •Tollana1234567
in reply to berrodeguarana • • •same thing here. certain job industry, which is worth getting into, how hard it is to apply,,,etc. and all the other subs. the least useful ones were politics and news. they had subs for people wanting to join the services, but could not find a place where they can discuss because it was originally concentrated in certain forums only.
got an appliance problem of a specific model, or electronic issue, the subs have it.
w3dd1e
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bertlewirth
in reply to w3dd1e • • •Tollana1234567
in reply to bertlewirth • • •gwl [he/him]
in reply to return2ozma • • •We all know they really were just looking for any excuse
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JcbAzPx
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ReluctantMuskrat
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grous
in reply to gwl [he/him] • • •They killed access to old Reddit without an account a couple months ago. Also i saw some people can't access the new one without an account but i guess they are rolling out that one slowly.
They're making the website viewable only with an account.
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ElectricVocalist
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gwl [he/him]
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TheStaffmaster
in reply to gwl [he/him] • • •there are some very narrow uses where AI is actually useful. Most of what it's used for is junk though. The early internet was the same way, but at least that was charming about it. I doubt that a website comprised of 1200 clipart hamster gifs and a pitch toned clip of a song from Disney's Robin Hood is going to hack a competing Sites mainframe looking for ways to inflate its page veiws.
The AI bubble will burst, companies will actually sit down, pull their heads out of their asses, and actually apply it to something useful, as it was originally conceived.
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zack822
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Psythik
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BillionaireStew
in reply to Psythik • • •Install from Scratch
join-lemmy.orgPsythik
in reply to BillionaireStew • • •Thanks, I tried that guide but it might as well be gibberish as far as I'm concerned.
Why do I have to tap into the command line on my web server? What happened to GUI installers?
"PostgreSQL"? What happened to MySQL?
What the hell is "Rust"?
So much has changed in 20 years and I feel like an old man trying to navigate a modern smart TV.
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Bluescluestoothpaste
in reply to Psythik • • •Mr. Satan
in reply to Psythik • • •Gorilladrums
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zack822
in reply to Gorilladrums • • •kingkong
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Ann Archy
in reply to kingkong • • •SCmSTR
in reply to return2ozma • • •Lol Reddit
I actually forgot about Reddit in the same way I forgot about Friendster... Which I want to point out is also still around and being used by real people, somehow.
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gilokee
in reply to SCmSTR • • •Ann Archy
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zune30
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incompetent
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mofongo
in reply to gilokee • • •Tollana1234567
in reply to mofongo • • •BuckFutter
in reply to return2ozma • • •Auth
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in reply to Auth • • •BuckFutter
in reply to Auth • • •No idea, just think it’s hilarious. Just checked and yep…
JasonDJ
in reply to BuckFutter • • •Ann Archy
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pressanykeynow
in reply to raven55six • • •They did it for like like 10+ years, firing Victoria from AMAs is the first call I remember.
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SpaceCrystal
in reply to raven55six • • •SirEDCaLot
in reply to raven55six • • •I'm not so sure.
I've been on Reddit since more or less the beginning- think pre-Digg-migration. Reddit was better then for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest was the self-selecting userbase. in general Redditors were a certain kind of people, and had a very strong sense of fairness and right/wrong. I remember hearing that a friend had started dating a new partner, and when I heard they were on Reddit I immediately made a handful of good assumptions about them (which turned out to be spot on).
The Digg migration was the start of the downfall- Reddit going mainstream. Over the last decade or so, conversations have gotten less intelligent, the noise and spam level have increased. The leadership has if anything encouraged this and rewritten the website and the app to be 'yet another scrolling app'.
Now let's say Reddit goes away. Let's say all the investors and the admins tomorrow decided to pack it up and go home. What happens to those masses of low-effort morons? They go elsewhere.
So I say long live Reddit. I wish for Lemmy to grow faster if possible,
... Mostrar másI'm not so sure.
I've been on Reddit since more or less the beginning- think pre-Digg-migration. Reddit was better then for a lot of reasons, but one of the biggest was the self-selecting userbase. in general Redditors were a certain kind of people, and had a very strong sense of fairness and right/wrong. I remember hearing that a friend had started dating a new partner, and when I heard they were on Reddit I immediately made a handful of good assumptions about them (which turned out to be spot on).
The Digg migration was the start of the downfall- Reddit going mainstream. Over the last decade or so, conversations have gotten less intelligent, the noise and spam level have increased. The leadership has if anything encouraged this and rewritten the website and the app to be 'yet another scrolling app'.
Now let's say Reddit goes away. Let's say all the investors and the admins tomorrow decided to pack it up and go home. What happens to those masses of low-effort morons? They go elsewhere.
So I say long live Reddit. I wish for Lemmy to grow faster if possible, I want to be able to have all the good conversations I need here and not rely on Reddit. But if Reddit implodes tomorrow, then I see a future where all the unwashed masses migrate to Lemmy and other platforms, just like the Digg migration. Not only is Lemmy not prepared for that much traffic (I'm talking in terms of moderation, mod tools, spam filters, etc) but it would reduce the overall quality of discussions and the average intelligence level here.
I'm happy to keep Reddit mainstream if it keeps Lemmy good.
Of course I'd love a future where centralized platforms like Reddit are the exception rather than the norm, but I don't think we're overall ready to flip that switch overnight.
Denfa
in reply to return2ozma • • •Even the subreddits for hobbyists are affected.
I’ll save a sad memory for the glory days but it’s time to move on.
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Denfa
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artyom
in reply to return2ozma • • •I don't doubt that it's because of the bots but it also conveniently forces people into their enshittified "modern" interfaces.
The API was effectively killed off years ago, so no loss there.
Tollana1234567
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in reply to return2ozma • • •lemmygarden
in reply to return2ozma • • •wouldn't want anyone using old reddit?
Tollana1234567
in reply to lemmygarden • • •TheChargedCreeper864
in reply to lemmygarden • • •LovelyMover
in reply to return2ozma • • •True, but i can be banned for one flippant comment taken out of all reasonable context, but another comment that is perfectly fine is judged based on a trend across multiple subs?
It's just ridiculous & indicative of a race to the bottom of the sump.
Reddit feels like where "the old free internet" I used to know, has gone to be slowly euthanasised, by drowning it in ai slop, bots, & people offended that the sky is blue.
tirateimas
in reply to return2ozma • • •Stopped using and producing content for reddit a long time ago.
Long live Lemmy.
Jaysyn
in reply to return2ozma • • •SpaceCrystal
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in reply to burrito • • •Tollana1234567
in reply to melsaskca • • •BradleyUffner
in reply to return2ozma • • •katze
in reply to BradleyUffner • • •Reddit API Overview | Reddit for Developers
developers.reddit.comzqps
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rizzothesmall
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TheArtfulLlama
in reply to return2ozma • • •JasonDJ
in reply to return2ozma • • •When I search for things at work, and reddit may have the top result, I stopped clicking them becasue they want me to log in.
When I search for things on my phone, and reddit is one of the top results, I stopped clicking it because now it won't let me read it in browser, and forces me to use their app.
They got rid of old reddit.
Clearly they are trying to pad their logged-in user counts.
I'm done. I'm sorry to say that I'd rather have an AI-generated answer (that likely is citing the right answer on reddit anyway) than to give reddit the satisfaction of making me open their app or log in.
Fuck them.
Fuck spez.
RIP AaronSw.
iegod
in reply to JasonDJ • • •They didn't. You need an account though.
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