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[–] 120 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means Internet Archive will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day.

Fuck u/spez.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago*

    ”Internet Archive provides a service to the open web, but we’ve been made aware of instances where AI companies violate platform policies, including ours, and scrape data from the Wayback Machine,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

    So then go after the AI companies for violating your platform policies, not the archive. Reddit does believe in the open internet, right? You're not just using this as an excuse to further wall off the content your users have created?

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Reddit can go die in a fire

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Reddit is the new Facebook. Soon to be followed by AI. Knowledge for the ignorant. Quacks.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I used to love reddit, about a decade ago. It's been enshittified so much now that I don't enjoy using it. I went back there the other day, and my account inbox had several messages, even though I haven't posted there in months. All engagement bots asking inane questions.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Same here - I was on Reddit for close to 20 years. After the purge, I had to stop because it literally became unbearable. Reddit is now fake dead pet pity posts, brain dead relationship outrage baiting, unintelligible post titles and comments, and barely obfuscated advertising.

    Apparently, it’s more profitable than ever; a monument to enshitification.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I've only been off reddit for 6 months or so, but I went back recently, and was amazed at the amount of clickbait type post, like the ones that you see on Facebook from some random account you don't follow, just obvious engagement farming with no quality, I wondered if it had been like that for a while and I just hadn't noticed.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The people were what made it great. It was the best place to go to get opinions or advice from people. Once the platform started controlling what people could say, and how they could do it (APIs), that's when shit went south. And now it's not even really people anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I still miss some of the community and elements that made me an avid user for so long, but I'm not gonna support a company that shits on it's users this much, with a CEO who constantly makes me nauseous trying to impress his fascist billionaire buddies. More of the filth that has utterly destroyed the America i grew up in.

    I'll never forgive any of these greedy fuckers for what they've done after being rewarded with ungodly luxury by the society that they now grind into dust. I thought when push came to shove they'd be a voice of reason and moderation and free speech and act as another check on power to maintain a system that obviously was already doing quite well for them. How fucking stupid i was.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My inactive reddit account never has engagement bots spamming me! Should I be offended?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Alright time to archive redlib then

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The fact that these incredibly well funded companies have the arrogance to believe they have the right to hammer the Internet Archive's limited resources for their own gain is disgusting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Well I mean... They do. What're you gonna do about? Cry?

    I know that might seem harsh but like, I don't believe that there is anything most internet users can do about this except for learn to live with it. And the business executives and shareholders that only see dollar signs and Pay Piggies know it too. People keep complaining, but companies keep doing this kind of thing basically unconstested, and if they ever are contested, they will just bury you in legal fees until you give up. Even if you and i don't pay for their products (as much as we can, sometimes these people are in charge of actual life necessities), they know there is a sucker born every second just dying to shower them with money. It never ends.

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  • [+] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    Everything of value that will ever be on Reddit has already been posted and archived.

    If anything this is just saving IA some storage space that would have otherwise been useless garbage

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Reddit: Trust us we're GENIUSES bro, most popular web site in the world, we're so smart I swear

    Also Reddit: Hey can we have more money, we lost it all again. This new plan's gonna work tho

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    So Spez feels he can profit from the users discussions, but he has a problem with someone else doing the same thing.

    Get fucked, dickface.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    So we can just build a proxy that redirects to internet archive...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Disgusting.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't have the IA getting it for free when Google is paying for it. Reddit management is a bunch of morons.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Little fucking asshole tightening up the noose to spite its older userbase while pleasing the shareholders and the right-wing techbro gang led by that apartheid beneficiary.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oh, die already!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Xitter blocked it recently as well…

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