Technology

Obligatory Fuck Spez

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?

Reddit is slowly dying. It will eventually be 100% bots.

because of AI bots

We all know they really were just looking for any excuse

Sooo Reddit is doing this to get rid of bots… except the only users they have left are bots… weird.

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.

Stopped using and producing content for reddit a long time ago.

Long live Lemmy.

Next: reddit is killing its HTTP interface to stop AI bots

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.

How sad that Aaron Swartz was there for the creation of RSS and Reddit. Like spitting on his grave by removing access to data and putting up walls.

They even banned /r/Lemmy. The nerve lol

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.

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

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!

A Call for a Freer Web

Aaron Swartz's legacy is a stark reminder of the ongoing battle for information freedom. His story indicts legal systems that can be weaponized and highlights the corporate enclosure of the digital commons.

Key Takeaways:

• The CFAA can be a tool for disproportionate prosecution and intimidation.
• Corporate imperatives can transform open platforms into controlled, monetized spaces.
• The "transfer" of concern was one of control and vision, not physical assets.
• Algorithmic curation can subtly shape discourse and limit exposure to diverse views

Swartz's life compels us to critically interrogate the forces shaping our online world. We must advocate for digital infrastructure as a public utility, renew commitment to information freedom, and collectively imagine and build digital spaces for authentic democratic participation, transcending the logic of profit and control.

Full text

https://www.ajarnspencer.com/investigating-the-death-of-aaron-swartz-the-corporate-capture-of-the-digital-commons/

because of AI bots

Is it because they want it to be only a.i. bots, because that seems to be where it's heading by making it more and more hostile to humans.

because of AI bots

because they want to charge people for the privilege to have their users data

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.

i stopped missing them when i found this place

Yeah…

AI bots….

That’s why.

I do not miss Reddit at all.

no because they banned so many people, whats left was propaganda bots, and spammers looking to earn money from rs by directing traffic to thier businesses. this effectively stopped or poisoned thier AI data scraping.

Bots my ass

I tried visiting old.reddit.com yesterday and it was a redirect to a login page that appeared to be the modern ui. So I guess PC browsing is off the table, Reddit’s modern ui is trash.

I finally got around to setting up a lemmy instance just because of this. Cant stop what you dont control..

They're JUSTIFYING it with AI bots. Very different.

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.

Reddit is such a tucking corpo

Reddit is also killing itself lately. I hope it goes down forever and good platforms like Discuit or Lemmy become the mainstream thing.

Well there goes my last line of local content outside facebook.

I used the rss feed to check what going on in local community.

I also noticed the youtube rss feeds are returning 404s now as well.