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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My first post on lemmy! RIP Reddit and fuck you Pez.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just deleted my last account. fuck em lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah same here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I won't argue against the need for reddit to be profitable, they're a business after all, BUT, all respectable software that is paid has different tiers of pricing, usually ranging from single-user to corporate-deployment.

spez is complaining everywhere that they can't allow corporate-level scraping of data to train AI for free, and that's fair, but why don't they differentiate "small" devs developing apps for users from "corporations" training AI?

I find it really hard to believe it's too difficult for them, other paid software/platforms do it all the time.

The only logical explanation to me is they don't want to, they just want to kill apps no matter what, that's why the unreasonable prices for everyone, they're just using the "no profitable" excuse to do that without a worse backslash than they're getting already, tho they're being quite stupid about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The reality is they can scrape the content for "free" into another database without using API's index it and then train off it. A high price tag is not a road block for AI development. The just need real user interactions and it's the moderated forums that make it valuable as most toxicity is removed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Spez personally banned me for harasent because I reported a child porn seller

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

It blows my mind that Reddit can look at 90% of its communities going dark in some way and think, "yeah, this is fine."

EDIT (AGAIN): Thank you all for the comments on total subs. It's still clearly not 90%, but it still appears to be a significant portion of the active Reddit community. For the interested, check out the comments below for stats. :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit & Twitter going crazy only few months appart, and with this attitude they deserve to vanish in trashbin of internet history

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You gotta respect the dedication on some level

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They absolutely detest their userbase :(

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well at least they'll be more "profitable" with so many less users coming to the site and using third party apps.

Glad I've found Lemmy.

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