I still don’t get “Reddit stock”. What value does a trumped up BBS offer?
They pretended that the content was written by humans. And Google needed data upon which to train its AI. I don’t think there’s any value in that, but if you are an AI investor, you might want to ride your bubble.
The rest of us know that Reddit is full of bots and you shouldn’t be training anything on it. But if you’re looking at data from three or more years ago, then maybe that’s more human written. Of course Reddit and Google deny that bots dominate, but we know they’re lying and they’re trying to make money off of the bubble anyway, so don’t trust them.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Did they actually get anything useful from Reddit given that 90% of the content posted there is just BS. Especially now since it will be mostly just recycling its own slop.
They just banned me for no reason
“FUCK” see? Still not banned on lemmy
Banning you caused the stock to drop 9%? You must’ve had some prolific hot takes.
Good, I got banned for a stupid reason, they need some humble pie
I got banned for showing, quote, “extreme indifference” when Kissinger took a dirt nap 😅
The existence of extreme indifference suggests the existence of mild indifference, where you actually do care about the subject matter a tiny little bit, but insufficiently to get to the heights of mild interest.
That’s hilarious.
I got banned for posting in r/Tesla. Snowflakes.
I don’t see why Google would renew. The current content is AI slop.
That was more or less the original comment back when they started. Bots were a thing on Reddit before of course but they really started getting out in hand around 2021 which was long before the deal.
Have you seen Google’s output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I’d say.
The only thing I use Google’s AI for is to get text out of images. Which I’ll give it credit for it does very well even with extremely blurry content
Props to everybody here who helped to contribute to that drop just a teeny tiny little bit.
most of reddit is 50% bots anyways, reddit is cannabilizing itself to stay alive.
My personal shame is to still google “product” + Reddit every month if so. Nothing compares to Reddit’s comments on recommendations.
It’s true, but the value is diminishing. I’ve tried that and more than once in the past half year, the advice within reddit posts were clearly astroturf AI-generated slop, and some of them were upvoted in similar amounts to apparent real recommendations.
Companies know Reddit is a recommendation hotspot, and stealth advertising is becoming typical business practice.
yeah SEO people have caught on tons of fake reviews for products
These days the recommendation isn’t real unless it’s from a random youtuber who’s testing 10 similar products in a 30 minute video and has spreadsheets.
I’ve been giving bad advice. As a joke.
even google does that now
Internet is dead. If you just google the product, reddit will probably be the best result
I contributed first by no longer posting there and only rarely lurking on niches that aren’t popular here. I am contributing more now that they have blocked old.reddit, because ain’t no way I’m even lurking with the new interface.
I completely deleted my Reddit account, which is not a decision I took lightly, after more than 10 years of using that website frequently. I didn’t use any of the purge apps, my comments can be fossilized under [deleted] incase it helps anyone.
Makes me wonder if that’s a good indication of quality? I highly doubt bot accounts and astroturfers would ever delete their account, it’s too valuable for them. Deleted users are kind of verified human in a way.
And with them putting old Reddit behind a login, they’re just losing traffic.
They’re going to start getting really desperate to mine data and drive advertising dollars soon.they just try to pretend like facebook, Fake engagement by significant amount of bots, which are likely going to be propaganda anyways. Also thier purges last year, probably was the final blow anyways, get rid of actual users, in favor of fake botting, propaganda, and spammers.
Is it regional or for VPN users or something? I still use old reddit when I need to from search results, and I don’t get asked to log in.
It seems to be rolling out region by region I reckon. I’m in the south east Asia and I don’t get asked to log in yet.
I get asked to login to old.reddit if I set my VPN to USA, but not for the European countries I’ve tested.
Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people
Fediverse needs that. There’s just not enough people to attain the one cool thing about reddit, that was having a couple people create communities around basically any niche hobby you could think of.
Only very generic topics or ultra-popular stuff get some traction, and in many cases it’s barely a blip.
The wave has started. I just moved from there to here, after they enforced ID checks and require email or phone number.
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Ugh
“September again?” he complained after having arrived last September.
They’re still a decent enough porn aggregator. Maybe they can get an AI deal out of that.
grok already illegally scraped all the free galleries from the early 00s with hundreds of shots of the same model in the various positions, making a deal with a porn aggregator just to get links to images already previously scraped and a few new gw pics don’t make sense
That’s about all I use it for these days… I can’t lie. It’s still not as good as Tumblr was at that task but I digress.
Oh, nostalgia
