This comment thread is an example of how to talk to a literal pile of turd.
Edit: wow I really can't believe what pile of crap this admin's saying in them comments...
The only thing u/spez cares about it $$$. It’s not about the communities as a whole anymore. I understand server space isn’t exactly cheap, never has been, but Reddit, unlike Lemmy, is all about profit. There is no way that the ridiculous amount he wants for the api use age is sustainable for anybody that is trying to make Reddit useable for the masses. They just realized they weren’t getting any ad revenue from the apps that he couldn’t convince to show them. When I left reddit every other post was an ad
Reddit's not just interested in server costs now, though, they need to extract the maximum profit out of all their content. (We may have created the content, but they own it now).
Their main beef with the 3rd party apps seems to be that they were profitable while Reddit itself wasn't. But those apps did one thing, and did it well. Reddit is super bloated and out of touch.
I wonder if they're just testing the waters to see if the sentiment has changed at all. They'll probably keep posting similar at regular intervals to verify that the backlash is subsiding.
They're aiming to replace the mods with AI, aren't they.
They can't. Not without removing the part that makes reddit worthwhile, which are small dedicated communities.
Sure, an AI can moderate shit like /pics /politics /funny /gaming. Those are basically just garbage article/repost feeds anyway.
Can an AI moderate say... buildapcsales? Where you need a human moderator to verify if the deal is valid, add additional info to the flair and mark deals as expired? Technically yes, but it would require a specially trained AI, that knows how to scrape particular websites and avoid detection, which is not a great look for reddit and is also a ton of work.
What about a TV show subreddit? There has been instances where episodes were leaked, and the moderators had to protect the community from spoilers. Can an AI do it? Again, if it's manually trained on this new data it could. But are reddit employees going to illegally download leaked episodes to feed the to the algorithm?
At that point, you'd be spending more time and money on babysitting each AI than if you just moderated manually.
Oh lord, I didn't even consider the hell scape of rage-bait algorithms moderated by AI. I want to get off Mr. Bone's Wild Ride.
It’s crazy how profit seeking trust fund assholes ruined the internet and the future.
This is the guy that literally answered 2 questions in an AMA. They dont want communication.
"We're gonna listen to your complaints. We're not actually gonna do anything about them, but we will listen to them. Oh, and please don't record our meetings so that when the bad press about these meetings comes out and we lie about them, there won't be proof of us lying this time kthxbye!"
I agree that this post is dumb, but why is Reddit now trying to bury it? Has the OP of that thread been getting blasted in the comments?
Probably got lambasted for being one of the worst non-apology apologies in the history of apologizing.
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