237
Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations (www.axios.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
70 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 72 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Been a part of reddit since 2006 and as much as it pains to see something that I visited for 2 decades to go away, it needs to be put to pasture because of spez.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 51 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Same. Ditched my account during the API nonsense, but I still lurked occasionally on old.reddit. When they made that require a login, stopped going to reddit entirely. Which leaves this place as the last social media I interact with. I'm expecting some kinda ban on the fediverse in my country, just cause that seems par for this course. Then I dunno, give up on the internet? It's half bots now anyway.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Same here. I occasionally follow a link to normal reddit it and it lets me see the tread for about ten seconds then tosses up a login popup. Looks like they are locking down the whole site.

    At least the bots are pretending to be intelligent. A lot of idiots on reddit that are really degrading the site.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    as if bots/spammers are going to be deterred by requiring logins, they make accounts as part of thier spamming abilities, plus these "users" also try to make genuine comments so they dont get banned. so once reddit fully deploys its going to be just propaganda bots, non-propaganda bots, spammers(OF, and website linkers). AI scraping the site will become less and less useful.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And how is putting up barriers going to play out? Fewer users will bother, and overcoming barriers like that is more than worth it if it means you get to run your 1000-bot army.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    they are probably hopefully enough will not leave the large subs(sports and all its alts, movies/show and all its alts, celeberity gossips and alts, news and politics) AITA)and its alts, interesting type subs are mostly AI posted anyways. they dont care of the small niche subs dies though. it works for tiktok and instagram, if people are addicted enough.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    they dint roll it all at once, my guessing they will try to force at every opportunity and page, i suspect they will fully deploy once they get rid of old reddit, i havnt seen a nag while in a specific post, but if you are scrolling any of the main pages you would get the popup. much like qoura does now.

    remember when reddit had i.reddit for mobile users, pepperidge farm remembers.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    At this point I am just running a RSS feed aggregator on my home server, and using that to keep up on news and information. If I really want to go nuts, I just feed it into my local LLM and have it summarize the days news for me.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    the first major reddit drama was '16-17, and who was elected at that time. and when the gop were forcing subs to be shutdown. and then the first sweep of political based bans started which got worst over time, because reddit was developing more and more sensitive ways to detect spam/bots, and even innuendos will catch you a ban. and then starting from the last election to early last year, when they massive purged most user accounts. which led them to now require logins to SCOUR for more AI data.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent