The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.
I’d disagree but it does depend on your instance and how you curate the content you want to view.
Such is the beauty of the fediverse, block/mute/filter freely and openly. I'd block and filter more if I weren't an admin. Curating your content is the purpose of the fediverse, you make the algorithm.
Sadly a lot of the good content will be lost, regardless of migration or encouraging users to take it off the site. Eventually someone in Reddit Inc. will have the "bright" idea to wipe everything out, to reduce spendings on data storage.
In the short term it goes as you say, they're selling API access to the LLM bubble. (And they're likely selling your data too, against your consent.)
However in the long term the LLM bubble will explode, and users will disengage with the site, causing a downwards spiral. At some point of that spiral they'll delete the data, after it's unprofitable. I think.
I think quality hobby communities like the ones that used to exist on Reddit require both smart people and a larger population to create a sense of social investment. This kind of information used to be distributed across forums with fewer than 1k people each, which isn't so bad, but does prevent it from propagating easily.
People have to post content, but most users lurk. It's a chicken/egg scenario.
Popular is dominated by posts about relationship drama, freakout videos, and things like amiugly. Rarely do you see any major stories on popular now. Aliens could be invading and destroying half the world and the top posts would probably be about whether someone was the bad one for breaking up with their partner due to not washing the dishes.
Oh gee, if it isn't the consequences of Huffman and his board's actions
Just wait until Greedy Pigboy says something that boils down to "leopards ate my face". It'll be fun.
And frankly I'm glad that we're seeing the consequences of that now, instead of later. Call it pettiness but I want to see the IPO failing hard.
Reddit sucks
Kill your reddit self
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku
I'm convinced that Reddit is delaying banning anything that will leak more users to Lemmy. For instance, i would be 100% done with Reddit if they banned the Infinity client, but they haven't. I'm sure I'm not alone too, as there is probably a huge overlap in infinity client uses and those who would move to Lemmy.
Perhaps, but the administration showed already that it doesn't really know what would piss off users and encourage them to leave, so there's a good chance that they'll still do it.
There was a reddit mod that went on a ban rampage because someone dared to use the word "female" instead of "woman" and their justification for it was, it could have been from an incel. Fucking hell, shit like that makes me glad I'm not on there anymore.
I've seen worse. Have you heard about the chicken sandwich drama?
- user1 calls a chicken sandwich a "chicken sandwich", in a food subreddit.
- user2 (an assumer unmoderating the sub) assumes that user1 is trying to "public shame" the OP, otherwise user1 would've called it a "chicken burger".
- user1 and user2 start discussing through modmail, while user2 is clearly harassing user1
- the discussion goes public
- people start mocking user2 with the words "chicken sandwich" in all subreddits that user2 unmoderates
Bonus points: user2 also moderates a subreddit known for its propensity to brigade and try to... public shame people based on their cooking opinions.
