It finally happened. After 8 years of usage, R*ddit decided to force me to prove my age to even see the front page. I absolutely refuse to give them my face or ID, so I guess it’s finally time to let the dumpster fire go. I hope the platform burns to the ground asap. Really hope its current state generates more activity here, Lemmyverse really does seem like what Reddit should have been.

  • RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️🐧@feddit.dk
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    After the IPO March 2024 they’ve really stepped on the enshittification-gas pedal. They’ll ban users for pointing out the bots - and the bots they refuse to ban. What’s even more hilarious is how they removed old.reddit.com to stop AI scraping, and now they’re entering the final stages what even un-registered users being able to view reddit content at all.

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    Everything that made Reddit good died years ago. We’ll build a new Reddit, with blackjack and hookers

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    Let it marinate. Either there’s gonna be a data leak or they are simply going to sell the data themselves. AI companies are going to scoop it all up and train their models.

    In a few years you can ask the LLM to generate you an accurate image of a reddit mod and we finally will have the definitive answer wether the the memes are all true or not.

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    It’s alright here (I’m also super new here) tho there’s way less content going around here than on reddit, gotta get to work posting and commenting here to make it more active (personally) I feel you have a bigger stake on keeping a community active when it’s smaller like this

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      there’s way less content going around here

      You mean less AI spam, and advertising? Reddit’s content is long gone.

      The only thing is the remnant of finding recent issues/solutions because Reddit is google crawled, and Discord is not (yet)

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        Yeah the amount of seemingly spam posts from new subreddits that hit the front page is absurd. The same content will be posted several times, from several subreddits all with thousands of up votes.

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    That reminds me, time to flip this back to on… …and done. Shout out to Controld, hopefully they are still not a shitbag company because I swear every time I adopt a service they go south or get ideological.