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SalaciousBCrumb
General Memes & Private ChuckleBecause fuck them, that's why.
It's to accelerate the exodus to the Fediverse, obviously. There can be no better anti-Reddit advocate than u/spez. Guy's got talent. He's a natural.
Daddy Elon did it so Spez copied his idol just like with the API.
Why?
Because they want to monopolize AI scraping of their content, and they're trying to prevent scraping by companies that didn't pay for it.
Has literally nothing to do with the experience of the average user -- it's all about monetizing their user-submitted content as AI training material.
google is the main benficiary to the AI scraping along with openAI, which sells it to others like palantir down the road.
Probably the same reason GlassDoor did. Money.
glassdoor got sued by employers, that were getting afraid of users/former employees calling out thier shady/unethical business practices, this include thier hiring methods. thats why astroturf the reviews, also requiring a datamining account to accessit. most other sites equally got scared and did the same thing. Indeed got rid of thier forums(mostly did the same thing calling out certain jobs, which ones are using ghost jobs,,,etc) around the time glassdoor started working in chaoots with the companies.
If it got walled, I wish people who posted years of content there would just delete it since it's no longer for general public
I did that during the great exodus. Actually, I replaced all my comments with random book quotes six times over the course of two years before finally deleting them. So, if you ever have a question about obscure data lifecycle management techniques, cybersecurity, Destiny, data center power optimization, etc., and the chatbot replies with an excerpt of Jane Eyre or an nutritional breakdown of a tablespoon of almond oil, it took it from a backup of my old reddit account.
Evidently Reddit restores them now
Yeah, they replaced a bunch of mine at first. Its why I went through multiple iterations of text replacement over a couple of years. If they want to replace the text with the original, they'd have to a) notice that the text of the response.doesn't match the comment it's responding to, b) have to go back some random number between 5 to 8 iterations.
Yeah, it's some bullshit. 🙆🏼♂️
I deleted all of my content there several years ago, and even going through and searching the old archives, most of it has been deleted and overwritten.
Makes me sad because it was like a hundred k karma account, but worth it to prevent them from just turning all of my effort into a few extra pennies in their pockets.
"Oh, you were trying to look at a solution to a problem you have? Fuck you!"
It is why I ended up here. So far, no complaints.
you can use an alternate frontend
https://redlib.catsarch.com/
On an iphone you can also just use the “remove distractions” tool to disappear the overlay that freezes the screen and tells you that you have to log in. After doing it the first time my phone automatically does it now and I can browse without issues. I only use it to search for specific questions/info at this point and its a good workaround to avoid that bullshit
android doesnt have this feature though? unless theres a workaround.
If you're using Firefox for Android and have Ublock installed you open the Ublock menu and either select the element zapper (temporary) or element picker (permanent) to remove website objects
Reddit needs to croak already. New-reddit was the begining of the end.
Data harvesting
Piggy boy is in charge what do you expect
They didn't as far as I can tell. What are you referring to?
It's being rolled out slowly. Old.reddit stopped working on my desktop yesterday but still works on my phone, despite being on the same internet connection.
yea it happened on the phone, when you use a browser, it will force a login popup. they havnt fully made it popup 100% of the time yet.
They did but it's a gradual roll out and only fucks over old.reddit for "safety" says the pop up.
I was having trouble figuring this out as well. I unblocked Reddit from my firewall and had no trouble accessing it.
The business model is user data capture. Making people use an app just makes it more apparent.
Is anything important on Reddit anymore?
especially with a cellphone, they capture even more data otherwise they couldnt on a desktop, where you can block ads/login more easily
Just years of answer to questions that you could not Google because Google only shows sponsored results. We were so used to forums being forever that when we moved to Reddit and Discord, we did not consider the price of centralized information.
I have found Reddit misses much more than hits when I was on there pre-Lemmy.
On topics where I have deep knowledge, I was drown out by people with a wrong answer and more karma. Once on something I was literally the creator of.
I can only assume other topics I know less about were the same way. It really makes me doubt what I see on Reddit. I assume ai and bots did not improve that.
For niche information I am actually going back to targeted web boards. While Lemmy is less entertaining, I have gotten some good quality information as well as conversation.
Very much this.
But also, just having a huge number of people on one platform makes for a lot more content on obscure topics. You can have a niche interest and find a whole-ass subreddit full of people with the same interest. There are definitely subreddits I miss. But not enough to wade through the cesspool that is Reddit to pick out the few remaining gems.
Yes, we can make similar communities on Lemmy, but without the sheer volume of eyeballs that Reddit has, there's next to no chance that such communities would take off. (I'd love to see an equivalent of /r/bestoflegal, but the only way that's feasible is for it to copy content from Reddit, which isn't really the solution I'm hoping for. /r/fuckhoa is endlessly entertaining, but again, way too niche to take off on Reddit. I think you all get what I'm saying here.)
whole-ass subreddit
100%, yep. It's all fully ass.
Initially if you browsed via a browser on mobile, it would force you to get the app or login. Now they've also (rolling disable) of old.reddit without logins (browser and mobile).
Yeah, that's shitty and not unexpected. Hopefully projects like Redlib find/maintain some kind of workaround for the long term, but I'm not all that confident.
I mean, "fake" (undisclosed bot use) accounts're still possible, so making sure said accts've joined a few slice-of-life/normie subs and seed the accts with innocuous questions, it should evade detection for a while... IANAP, so 🤷🏼♂️
It’s happening in some countries as a slow rollout
it started happening to my phone yesterday.(no plans of logging in.
