• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it’s something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They’re only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.

    Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?

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      1 month ago

      Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.

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      1 month ago

      They’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.

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      2 months ago

      I still go on reddit often since that’s where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.