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As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
(arstechnica.com)
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It's a sewer of bot slop and they've consistently added "features" to make the experience worse for humans. Reddit exists to sell ads, sell data, and facilitate pushing narratives for money. They determined this was more profitable than "deep discussions" years ago. Hilarious they were happy to sell their hoard of "lived experiences" to the LLM peddlers and now it's eating them.
deep discussions to be found on reddit:
Old reddit now requires an account to access, and that means I'm now 100% done with reddit. It was still good for the subreddits for niche PC games, which is all I was using it for since deleting my account years ago.
Such interesting timing of this drop and article to come out shortly after the gatewalled their content even more.
it doesn't though
They've been slowly phasing forced login for old.reddit
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/
It didn't for me for a while either but it started prompting me yesterday.
Removes r/all so people can only see a highly moderated and sanitized version of the site
longing for the two month period 14 years ago when reddit was good
hate to tell you this, but r/jailbait was like a top 10 visited subreddit at that time.
Yea any time someone waxes nostalgic for "how Reddit used to be" the fucking Kill Bill sirens go off in my head. Like exactly what part of old Reddit do you miss? Because I haven't forgotten how many people got upset when the CSAM subreddit was banned
Quincy Jones' Ironside theme are the origin of those sirens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zViIajZwH-s&t=19
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It’s legit a cosmic joke how the most sanctimonious voices you’ll ever hear will also speak fondly of times like this when reddit was “based”.
There’s a certain D-word that should have been our cudgel.
Oh, now we need real human perspective. Not back when they partnered with Google to help train their AI model.