Reddit

Reddit seems oddly quiet these last few days. Its kinda eerie. Posts that would normally generate a ton of comments just have 2 or 3 comments. It feels a bit like a calm before the storm.

Anyone know whats up?

Reddit wants more users and more money from Google in exchange for an even bigger mountain of data feeding its AI machine, according to Bloomberg. The negotiation shows a new front in the struggle between Big AI and content providers as they try to harvest new revenue streams without bleeding out the very traffic and engagement that keep them alive.

A year and a half after cutting its first data-sharing deal with Google, reportedly worth $60 million a year, unnamed executives say Reddit is back at the negotiating table eyeing an even bigger role inside the company’s AI ecosystem. The platform is reportedly eager for Google to help entice users – who get an answer farmed from Reddit and leave – into posting in Reddit’s forums, which would generate more of the very content tech giants need to train their data-hungry AI models.

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ngq4zl/republicans_voted_to_block_a_subpoena_to_release/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160410083943/http://www.redditblog.com/2013/05/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html?m=1

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/comments/1nfulzt/comment/ndzdcby/

Don't let them sell and use your content.

I personally delete my content when it pass 24 hours mark.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36005534

"First, we are moving away from subscribers as the measure of community size or popularity. Subscribers is often more indicative of a subreddit's age than its current activity."

"Instead, we’ll start using visitors. This is the number of unique visitors over the last seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average. This will exclude detected bots and anonymous browsers. Mods will still be able to customize the “visitors” copy."

"Using visitors as the measurement, we will set a moderation limit of a maximum of 5 communities with over 100k visitors. Communities with fewer than 100k visitors won’t count toward this limit. This limit will impact 0.1% of our active mods." Source

Whether or not you agree or disagree with this - What's interesting to me here, is Reddits current preparation timescale. This isn't going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can't just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37201414

I was one of the people who deleted their reddit account when 3rd party apps were being pressured out.

I am just wondering how the official app is now. I visit a page that has no lemmy alternative every now and then.

I have no plans to post, upvote or downvote. I just want an easy way to see a couple of pages sometimes. Currently doing this in a mobile browser, requiring I not wipe history. Is there a better way to do this?

Hey guys, so I've been working on a minimal, text-based Reddit alternative for the past few months, and I think it’s coming along nicely.

I’m calling it Nooki (name might change in the future). For now, it’s text-only posts. This could change if it takes off and people want to share images or other media.

It has most of the basic features of Reddit, and I’d love to get your feedback on the UI and any features you’d like to see added.

I had my 15yo old reddit account still up which I was only using for outreach for threadiverse in places like /r/redditalternatives etc. Last week I got an email that they found some "suspicious behaviour" (of what? I never use it) and locked it, so I had to reset the password. I visited reddit directly to verify and discovered that it was indeed locked. So I reset my password, so far so good. Set a new password and everything. However when trying to login with the new password, it initially was giving me some rate limiting errors, and afterwards it was claiming "the username or password is wrong". Also looking at my profile shows it has been restricted to 18+ user for some reason (I have nothing NSFW in it).

So looks like this is the anticlimactic end of that journey. Can't say I'm sad, but I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner given the amount of anti-reddit shit I've posted in the past 2.5 years :D

Jesus christ, what the fuck is this question? This is essentially a thinnly-veiled "Which nationality are the worst people?", thinnly-veiled racism.

Literally hald of them are like, "Chinese people baaad", wtf. And also 1/3 of them are "Indians baaad".

I'm Chinese American which is why that thread made me feel disgusted at reddit.

Like holy shit, I'm not overreacting right? I'm pretty sure c/AskLemmy@lemmy.world would never allow this troll question.

I’m trying to research more ways to ban evade or punch through moderator mutes on Reddit. One interesting method I’ve discovered is creating a new community with a post targeting the mods of another subreddit, then inviting each mod to become a mod of the new subreddit, where they view the post.

Warming up accounts is a massive pain in the ass these days (thanks AI and OnlyFans), so finding new methods to utilize fresher accounts and still get in contact with other users is a worthwhile endeavor. Are there any other techniques I could be using?

i opened reddit again today because silksong is finally out. went to see how the subreddit is going. (sadly, the silksong communities here are rather sane. r/silksong is still about 40-50% insane, but more sane posts are coming in)

front page is r/nextfuckinglevel. guy chopping wood uses a tire to keep the log upright to chop the wood easier.

i remember making a reddit acount because r/fiftyfifty and r/watchpeopledie. now its just advertiser friendly r/mildlyinteresting at best making the front page.

Basically what the title says. I commented on a post and sent a link to my comment to my wife to get her take on the post and my response. To start, the link just takes her to the topic and not my comment. If she tries to find my comment it isn't listed. If she manually goes to my profile and tracks down the comment all it says is "[Removed]". However, from my perspective the comment is still live with 1 view and no activity. I've tried closing my browser, refreshing the page and everything and for me the comment is still visible even on the page for the post. For everybody else though it has been removed.

The crazy thing is the comment isn't even controversial; somebody asked for marriage advice and I gave some. The "removal" seems to be automated too because I sent her the link basically as soon as I posted the comment and it was already shadow banned.

I’ve used Reddit for 4+ years and trusted this platform, but now I’m completely locked out of my account.

Password resets succeed but login still fails.

Google login shows “Invalid credentials.”

Login links just say “Something went wrong.”

10+ support tickets = nothing but useless automated bot replies.

No human help, no security, no accountability. All my time, posts, and data are just wasted because of Reddit’s broken system.

This is how @Reddit_Support treats long-time users. Absolutely shameful.

And so I hopped on and deleted all the comments on that one too. Thanks random password request!

I’m so confused by how Reddit is being moderated now. I had someone follow me to various subreddits, responding to every comment I made with a particular anti trans slur, (the one that rhymes with “moon”, not sure if I’m allowed to say it here) and a demand that I join the “41 percent” (which basically means “kill yourself.”) I reported their account, just once, and it was the first time I’d ever reported anyone. A few hours later, I was permanently banned for “abusing the report button”. I tried making another account and was instantly banned. The accounts of other people in my household have also been permanently banned, which is the most confusing part of all of it.

The account that was harassing me is still up as far as I’m aware. So, apparently it’s fine to call people slurs and tell them to die, but they’re not allowed to complain about it.

So, I’m new to this place. I was told it was better.

the mod said they will unban him if he remove the post in /r/viking