• Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1 hour

    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.

    • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54 minutes

      Um, excuse me, this post is promoting violence against bots. That’ll be a lifetime ban for you and your old ass account.

      • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        38 minutes

        I’m in this post and I don’t like it. Reddit is imploding under its own bulk and tech bro fellating. Ya hate to see it. It was so pleasant once upon a time. But alas, “Die a hero or live long enough,” and all that.

  • EdibleSource@lemmy.mlEnglish
    49 minutes

    This will really suck for the niche communities I follow. RSS is what enabled me to follow a handful of communities that don’t exist elsewhere.

  • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    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”

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1 hour

      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

    • DrSoap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      59 minutes

      Extra hilarious because they just invested so much in ads to try and rope in every day people.

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    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.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1 hour

      reddit also wants GENUINE human generated content, not AI-generated posts or comments that poisons thier data, thats why the forced logins. im in another forum where the spammers, have to "make genuine’ content to evade thier spam/bot filters.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
      3 hours

      It’s both. The LLM scrapers are now relentless. They are also closing the door so they can sell the data to Google.

    • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 hours

      and people who buy ads on Reddit thinking it’s going to get a certain amount of views but they don’t know most of those views are bots until after they paid for the ads. Then they have to prove to Reddit they were tricked and good luck with that unless your a corporation Reddit wants to have a good relationship with.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1 hour

    i assume this affects things like libdirect, continum,etc. old reddit still works on some browsers and 2 extensions.

  • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots itself.

  • aizakku@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 hours

    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.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1 hour

      it still works on FF. on mobile its a little trickier, you use the old reddit extension and sink it or oldyesterdayreddit extension as well.

    • Mereo@piefed.caEnglish
      4 hours

      You can use the old Reddit extension of Firefox but yeah, the latest changes suck.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    Lots of people here confusing scrapers with bots making posts. This is talking about the former, which I think we all agree are bad, but most people seem to think it’s the latter, which reddit is happy to host.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours

    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?

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1 hour

      they never ever did anything to propaganda bots at least not recently, and since trumps 2nd win in the WH it was clear they were banning.

    • Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish
      2 hours

      They’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5 hours

      Unfortunately a good chunk of linux distro resources and troubleshooting, and also many hobby stuff is over there.

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      5 hours

      Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.

    • tf1@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6 hours

      I still go on reddit often since that’s where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.

      • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 hours

        I mostly stick to Lemmy but there are times when I have a question to ask and the larger number of eyes on it does feel better even if it’s just a placebo

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1 hour

          i had to ask very specific questions, that Reddit has the niche subs for, that lemmy doesnt have recently.

      • Zagorath@quokk.auEnglish
        2 hours

        I go on Reddit read-only fairly often, but these days it’s quite rare that I’ll post or comment. And when I do I always take the opportunity to promote the fediverse.

    • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 hours

      I think the issue is also related to how Reddit makes money. Reddit makes money from selling advertisement. I would guess they are charging a certain fee based off subreddit activity the ads are shown in. When most of that Reddit activity is bots and fake clicks on advertisement then the company won’t see the return on their investment because they thought a million people would see their ad but only 100k real people actually saw it.

    • FridaVermercury@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1 hour

      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.

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      When I left Reddit years ago I was already convinced than more than half the accounts were bots.

    • RxBrad@infosec.pubEnglish
      5 hours

      Anything with an even mildly AI-adjacent topic is a solid 75% bots right now…

      /r/nvidia, /r/amd, /r/hardware, etc, etc…

  • flameleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    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.