The Old Reddit is dying; the new Reddit struggles to avoid scraping.
  • bad1080@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 hours ago

    i don’t buy this “continues to fight AI scraping” bullshit for a second. they literally ceased API access for regular users after they sold the rights to google to specifically scrape their site with AI.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    7 hours ago

    Man I know I’m the minority here, but once I see a paywall, age verification, or logon block, I just move on with my life. It’s not that important… Or there are other sources.

    • Sackett@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      13·
      6 hours ago

      The day they blocked my old.reddit is the day I came over here. It honestly was easier than I thought, there are only a handful of communities I really miss, and those were all getting filled with AI bots anyways. It’s emptier here, but at least I’m talking to actual people.

  • kingkong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago

    been banned on reddit for stating the truth already and tried many times to fix things. reddit is anti free speech on all accounts when it was nothing inflamatory just stating truth and their mods are mostly corrupt anyway for their industry agendas. lots of ai bots and spam. useless platform when it gets incorporated it becomes useless

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      At the end of the day that site is private property and at anytime the owners can boot anyone out they deem as “harmful”.

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        5 hours ago

        Same is true here. But with the fediverse, if you feel a instance youre on is shit, you can switch and still be on lemmy. No more searching for a new service. We are home. Even if the house burns down now and then we will rebuild in the same damn place.

        • bigmamoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          In theory. Since the user mass is so low if your house burn, well even if you have sole other they arent place to live either. So this reddit mechanism still work here

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    So if I understand this right… people who left because they were mad, won’t have an old reddit to ever come back to if they ever decide to go back and haven’t logged in for awhile?

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    781·
    13 hours ago

    I have to say, this war on Old Reddit is doing wonders to curb my Reddit use.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 hours ago

      Also the “you must use the app!!!” banner that appears after 30 seconds is fantastic on mobile, as they are actively preventing me to continue reading and doomscroll.

      It’s like “no! Bad dog! You already got your info. Now close your tab and go back to Lemmy”

    • zoltanshields@lemmy.zipEnglish
      27·
      12 hours ago

      It’s actually amazing how quickly it killed my usage of the site. I deleted my account years ago but still lurked every now and then. Now I literally can’t go back, I won’t download the app and the new site layout is pretty much unusable for me.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        61·
        11 hours ago

        I used Stealth for a while, and it was awesome, but it would go in and out, and a few months ago it just stopped working completely.

  • Disaffected Scorpio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    11 hours ago

    Reddit is mostly ai bots, & bots, and maybe a few genuine users.

    I had my 18yo account 0erma-banned by ai. Then, ai reviewed ai … … ai said ai was correct but would send it up for further review… … by another ai. Who sent it to a human… … and the human sent me an apology. “Sometimes, we get things wrong. Your account has now been fully re-instated. We are sorry.” … and then ai stepped in and overrode the humans mods.

    HAL 9000 is not fiction.