Technology

I do not miss Reddit at all.

I finally got around to setting up a lemmy instance just because of this. Cant stop what you dont control..

Stopped using and producing content for reddit a long time ago.

Long live Lemmy.

Sooo Reddit is doing this to get rid of bots… except the only users they have left are bots… weird.

How sad that Aaron Swartz was there for the creation of RSS and Reddit. Like spitting on his grave by removing access to data and putting up walls.

Reddit is slowly dying. It will eventually be 100% bots.

I posted on a food sub, saying "that looks incredible* something innocuous like that.

Bot removes my post, contact mode team because I cannot quite believe what I read. Auto mod, (cannot believe it was a human), tells me the same thing. Reddit has profiled me as being disruptive & I can post once I have "improved my standing"

Things like this are a red rag to me, always have been. Anyway, the food sub is muted, & reddit can get fucked, I'll post my opinions whether any bot likes it or not till I'm inevitably banned for failure to "conform" to their disgusting agenda.

I'm never going back to reddit

A Call for a Freer Web

Aaron Swartz's legacy is a stark reminder of the ongoing battle for information freedom. His story indicts legal systems that can be weaponized and highlights the corporate enclosure of the digital commons.

Key Takeaways:

• The CFAA can be a tool for disproportionate prosecution and intimidation.
• Corporate imperatives can transform open platforms into controlled, monetized spaces.
• The "transfer" of concern was one of control and vision, not physical assets.
• Algorithmic curation can subtly shape discourse and limit exposure to diverse views

Swartz's life compels us to critically interrogate the forces shaping our online world. We must advocate for digital infrastructure as a public utility, renew commitment to information freedom, and collectively imagine and build digital spaces for authentic democratic participation, transcending the logic of profit and control.

Full text

https://www.ajarnspencer.com/investigating-the-death-of-aaron-swartz-the-corporate-capture-of-the-digital-commons/

Well there goes my last line of local content outside facebook.

I used the rss feed to check what going on in local community.

I also noticed the youtube rss feeds are returning 404s now as well.

No, they aren't. The headline is just a giant lie. Why would anyone pretend to believe it?

Reddit was destroyed by bots years ago. So that's nonsense. But they have two strong reasons to pull public access. First, if the public has access to the data, then companies won't buy it for AI training. Second, if the public has access to the data, they can prove (as we already knew) that Reddit is full of bots, so there is no reason you would want to buy training data from it.

A mild realization just hit me. Reddit used to come up in daily conversation, even with randos. Now when I mention it nobody even knows what it is, and those that do remember it... speak of it only as this vague place they used to go years ago. "Oh yeah I remember reddit"

E: fyi I'm talking roughly circa 2008-2013 when every last bricklayer, sewer technician, and 7-Eleven worker "found" the platform

because their own mods are ai bots

Cutting into their margins eh?

I thought public API access ended years ago?