Let them drive their userbase further away. They have not learned their lesson in 15 years.
Reddit: Literally sells the platform’s content to AI companies.
AI bots: Fill Reddit with spam
Reddit:
Unless they get creative this likely won’t do anything but piss off the human users. Research from a couple years ago found that bots are better than people at captchas.
“Extra Verification steps”
I know how large social media companies operate. This is all about increasing the value of Reddit users to advertisers. The goal is to have a more accurate user database to sell them.
Zuckerberg literally brags to corporations about how good their data is on users:
https://www.facebook.com/business/ads/performance-marketing
Here, Zuck tells companies that Instagram can easily manipulate users into purchasing shit:
https://www.facebook.com/business/instagram/instagram-reels
Always be wary of anything available for free.
There are some quality exceptions (CBC, VLC, The Guardian, Linux, PBS, Wikipedia, Lemmy, ProPublica) but, by and large, “free” means they don’t care about you. You are just a commodity that they sell.
Facebook, Google, X, Reddit, Instagram… Their goal is keep people hooked to their smartphone. The recipe is very simple. You give them small dopamine hits (likes, upvotes) followed by a small break with outrageous content/emotional content. Then another dopamine hit.
Keep them hooked, gather their data, and sell them ads.
The people who know that best are former top executives :
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/business/addictive-technology.html
https://www.today.com/parents/teens/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-rcna15256
I read only one community on old.reddit.com, with VPN on. The moment they start asking for login there will be the moment my last contact with that site goes away.
Add as many as you want, I’m still not going back.
Sounds like Reddit wants to ensure that 90%+ of all traffic gets blocked.
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That was pretty much always an option. Just a setting. The problem isn’t mods, though some of them are part of the symptom.
So they will break the system more. I opened my Reddit account and shadow-banned after two days later and didn’t even receive any reason for that. I swear Reddit will be better place if they just stop to alter it.
Digg is coming Reddit. Full circle bitches.
Yeah yeah…
