Technology

reddit can go fuck itself.

Not that reddit isn't hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there's a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.

AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.

Fuck Spez

Reddit warned my account ( first warn in 10 years ) and deleted the comment when I told a American he can strike peacefully to show the government they are against it.

I got a warn for recommending violence by an ai , the human that checked it agreed and didn't remove the warn haha.

Reddit is just feared that their censorship goes public.

People who posted on Reddit ( speaking in the past tense, because who would continue to do so now that we have better things? ) never intended for it to be of limited access. Reddit was a publicly accessible place, and people shared their thoughts and comments on it because it was the frontpage of the internet, so the place of choice to share things with the world. That being scraped should not be a problem. But clearly Reddit didn't want to give you a platform to share your thoughts with the world, they wanted you to donate your thoughts and take it as their property so that they can capitalize on it.

As somebody who often ends up using Reddit like Stackoverflow and in some cases needing the Internet Archive (IA) to find the original post after it’s been deleted or garbled, I think this is a wakeup call for those go to Reddit both to get technical help and to post it. More than ever, Reddit is becoming an unreliable place to find answers for old obscure issues and if they are going to lockout places like the IA then I think it’s time people stopped contributing their solutions to Reddit.

This is huge blow to archivism, thanks to corporate greed and enshittification of reddit. Worst MBA filled POS.

That place is becoming more and more of a shithole. Bots, Ads, trolls, garbage mods… deleted the app last month.

Fuck Reddit

Given that the Internet Archive is the de facto standard way to cite material as seen on a given date

they're a trustworthy party that will probably persist for a long time

that's going to make it harder to cite content on Reddit.

It’s another move to protect against AI scraping that isn't paying them for access.

So reddit will become even less valuable

I already gave up from Reddit long time ago. Deleted all

In the lieu of an IPO u/spez has actively destroyed everything that made Reddit good! Gate keeping the API thinking it'll help with making some bigshot LLM some day lol

Nice of them to protect their (users') content from AI scrapping. So that they can charge AI companies for it instead.

Good plan. Keep locking down your big tech platforms, and we'll all be over here letting folks know where they can find freedom.

They can keep their shit for themselves, stopped caring a long time ago.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

Just more vindication for my ditching that trash heap of a platform. YT is probably going to be the next platform I ditch as they're going full Reddit now.

It's a matter of time before third-party YT front-ends start getting throttled or outright blocked like third-party Reddit front-ends.

As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway

The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.

Yeah, wouldn't want those AI companies to get all that data for free. Gotta make 'em pay for it.