Just as we all knew all along, #Reddit’s move to charge exorbitant fees for API access was so they can cut lucrative deals to sell user-created material to train #AI models.
I was a redditor of about 15 years when I decided to delete everything I wrote and close my account because I foresaw this hostile repurposing of what is essentially a massive store of freely-accessible, context-rich community-generated content, made by people who didn’t necessarily want their content to be used for training without compensation.
AI training is largely built on top of exploitation of labor for private gain. It’s legal in many cases, but it’s often unethical and immoral.
“Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO”
"Reddit will let 'an unnamed large AI company' have access to its user-generated content platform in a new licensing deal, according to Bloomberg yesterday. The deal, 'worth about $60 million on an annualized basis,' the outlet writes, could still change as the company’s plans to go public are still in the works."
@ONRYO I use #redreader and I love it. But the issue is that the contents that are 18+ or nsfw etc etc can be seen only if we use the official #reddit app. It can be news or any other needed post but no way to get it.
@lemmyshitpost went on Reddit 🤢 for a second because they have a better ham radio community, god is that place fucked. Let’s start the fun again of trying to destroy it. #reddit#fuckreddit
If you have not heard of them yet, they were formed on 2024-01-17 out of the talent search survival show #UniverseTicket. There are 8 members from three countries:
Nur mal so vor Beginn der Proteste der #Bauern heute: Auf #Reddit hat ein Landwirt die Finanzen des eigenen Hofs offengelegt, um etwas Hintergrund zu liefern.
“Perhaps the most pronounced impact of the protest, and #Reddit’s response to it, has been cultural. Users who have long been dedicated to the site, some of whom have spent countless unpaid hours working to make it better, are exhausted and resentful – and many have simply left.”
I’d attribute this to Reddit always being more aligned with fediverse values/structures, based on self-organising sub-reddits. Many on lemmy are “live free or die”.
Masto culture by comparison still seems interested in being the one place.
OK so #Reddit search has always sucked.
It has sucked especially in the New Reddit era.
Now, they have deployed the Even Newer Reddit user interface.
One of my biggest use cases of Reddit was "what are people in various communities talking about this particular video"?
In Old.Reddit, you could at least see crossposts in the unlikely case that the YouTube URL was somehow equivalent to the actual URL posted to Reddit. You know, because YouTube videos could be called upon by many requests, and Reddit fucking gave no shit about any URL normalisation.
But they at least let you see if anyone had crossposted shit.
Apparently, the New New User Interface fucking doesn't even let you do that. I tried searching for a particular video that was already posted in particular communities. Nothing.
Tried Google Search to find this particular thing. OK, found it.
Slapped "old." to it. "6 discussions."
That's it. Reddit was already shit at finding discussions about particular YouTube videos if you didn't use old.reddit. The new Reddit interface at least pretended the crossposts were there. Crossposts no longer are there. Why the fuck do people even follow the site any more.
Wow #Fediverse, thanks for the help! I am genuinely surprised at how close the results were. It looks like the recommendation is to try out the #Threadiverse (#Kbin and / or #Lemmy) first - but only by 1.8% over #Peertube! Y'all must know that I've been getting frustrated with #Reddit lately. I also appreciate the recommendations for other things to explore.
Now the question is Kbin or Lemmy? Or both? (any thoughts?)
I feel we need to tighten the #lemmy integration into microblogging services like #mastodon to have an advantage over #reddit. Microblogging has orders of magnitude more active users than lemmy, and a lot of the same discussions are happening in both places. If we could more seamlessly unify these discussions when wanted by the participants, it would help get over this "chicken and egg" problem that the #threadiverse is in.
I have not followed many subreddits long-term, but the few I have seem to have a strong culture of berating people who ask questions rather than use the search bar to see if their question has been asked and answered.
But a lot of these "repeat" questions are things that some of us would be interested in but hadn't thought to wonder about (let alone search for). The new post exposes a lot of us to interesting ideas.
Adblockers and alternative frontend will only get you so far in this. It's literally just a matter of time until step it to yet another level. Want some real change? Stop giving them power. #Boycott these fuckers.
"Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox" -> https://archive.is/yAdak (link to avoid direct #reddit)
Bring down closed data silos like #YouTube. Empower #foss federated platforms like #peertube.
🇫🇷 Les listes de front-end alternatifs que j'ai pu trouver sur internet étant très peu à jour, j'en ai démarré une nouvelle.
N'hésitez pas à me faire des suggestions sur Codeberg ou ici.
🇬🇧 As the lists of alternative front ends I've found on the internet are not very up-to-date, I've started a new one. Feel free to make suggestions on Codeberg or here.
#T2pub@T2pub So apparently Gabor started a subreddit thingie for Pebble people to join? Because we don't already have enough to figure out between Mastodon and BlueSky, and because I guess he and the others can't be bothered to just hang out with us on either of those? No, I'm not feeling terribly gracious about it because just... why? But anyway, for anyone who wants it... https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble_is/
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