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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

afaik supposedly it was because a large chunk of the bot network went through the old.reddit portal over the standard reddit portal.

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[–] voluble@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

That's just an excuse by reddit. Moving to the new style allows them to choke down and control the way that posts and replies are displayed and nested. This is good for them, because it allows them to offer white glove PR services to paying customers. It also obfuscates useful user supplied content so that it can be sold wholesale to anyone who has the money to buy it. That's more important to them than offering a good user experience and useful website to the proles.

Anyone still posting on reddit (who isn't a bot) is working for free for an unscrupulous company.

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[–] Initech_vs_Initrode@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago

Anyone still posting on reddit (who isn't a bot) is working for free for an unscrupulous company.

Reddit was founded during the "crowdsourcing" craze. People realized that they could launch websites where all the content was created by the users, and it would snowball into daily views.

My point is that posting and commenting on Reddit has always been doing free work for an unscrupulous company. You could argue that it wasn't unscrupulous before it went public, but even that is debatable.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago

Only because the bots were already set up to do it that way. It's quicker to use what exists when it works.

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