They login gated and banned the ability to criticize reddit on r/mildlyinfuriating. Reddit cucks
It was the next logical step - old.reddit still allowed unauthorized clients to work. Now the garden is fully walled, and soon it shall be paved over.
Im going to either get ignored, or downvoted to hell but…
Bot control.Their site is the only source the website can be read/scraped and with the influx of ai scrapers ignoring all bot rules they might want to try and kill that.
I havent seen the pop up yet, nor checked out the html dom, but i suspect they, like any website, are getting a huge influx of ai bots doing terrabytes and terrabytes of data transfers
I think they’re also trying to pump up logged in unique visits for investors. They’ve been stagnant on those but non-logged in visits have been going up steadily. I think they’re trying to convert a fraction of those visits into logged in accounts.
because they think they can make more money that way, and they don’t care about the users even one little bit
It’s why I moved to Lemmy - that and completely borking the site while using most VPNs. F-that. If you can’t allow my VPN, I know you’re wrong, not me.
And they block Archive.org as well. They really are entitled and full of themselves to a ridiculous degree.
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To drive you away
Really? Well I guess I’m really never going back now
They’re just following Facebook and Instagram. If anything, the surprise is them not doing so sooner.
So they get another page view every time you have to refresh to see the content behind the pop-up.
If they wanted to force logins they’d grey out the text like newspaper websites do.
Soon you’ll not be able to use your computer without “logging in” (Giving ID)
Because business types eventually ruin everything.
Quit using corporate social media.
Social media companies and self-destruction, name a more classic combination
The corporatocracy does not believe in the values of a open and free Internet. They have show us their hand over and over again. Why people keep playing when they know they will lose to the house is beyond me.
Line is definitely not going up.
The stock market is downvoting the fuck outta RDDT.
All of their business decisions for the past few years have been centered around monetizing Reddit content as training data for machine learning models. Most likely this recent decision is an attempt to block data scraping.
It’s gonna block sign ups. Why the fuck do I sign up without seeing shit?
Not like reddit is relevant these days.
Not like reddit is relevant these days.
Even within the lemmy user community people still occasionally refer to reddit because there isn’t a better source for some things. Outside of lemmy, reddit is a household name alongside facebook, snapchat &etc; people who don’t use it still know what it is. I think your conclusion is more aspirational than currently real.
The opacity is going to make the issue very real. A site like that goes stagnant without new blood.
It doesn’t need new blood. It needs infinite bots creating infinite content with no way to prove whether or not they’re bots or humans.
Wouldn’t you know it they’ve got it covered.
Oh absolutely, I think that is already happening, but it hasn’t reached broad public awareness yet. Reddit has 20 years of momentum, it won’t stop all at once.
I suspect the company is aware that user engagement is dropping, along with the quality of new content. Typical of most corporations, their response is to play defensive, to try to maximize the value of what they already have, to scratch and claw and squeeze every drop from the existing data and userbase. This will accelerate the decline, obviously, but when a company is in this state they consider any strategy besides protectionism to be too high a risk.
They will ruin themselves with cowardice, to be sure, but they’re still coasting on momentum for the moment. They will continue making the same types of decisions, at an accelerating pace, as the desperation sets in.
Everything posted in the last few years should be considered poison anyway, so I don’t know why anyone would pay for it to use as training data.
Why anyone would train an AI on Reddit is beyond me, the only worse platform I can think of is 4chan.
Because it has years of helpful troubleshooting guides, solutions to problems, and conversations. also there is an llm trained off 4chan, gpt-4chan.
Volume, and breadth of subject material. For language model purposes the specific content isn’t really important, it’s the wide variety of language samples from many sources, all in the same data format. You could get similar samples from other platforms, but you’d have to compile them from multiple sources and then standardize them somehow for input as training data.
Simple, reddit just want lemmy to succeed, so they gave us another shot!
