https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals
You can put down the pitchforks.
The Washington Post reported Friday that Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data
Funny, they are negotiating how best to sell OUR data. Might be time to delete your account and all its comments if you haven't already.
Isn't this the business model that's as old as humanity?
Workers make a bit of wealth with their work ... Workers give wealthy rulers wealth ... Wealthy rulers use that wealth to make more wealth ... And everyone praises the wealthy ruler for being so smart?
We haven't evolved ... we're just cavemen with cat memes and nuclear weapons.
“We haven't evolved ... we're just cavemen with cat memes and nuclear weapons.”
Hahaha that’s great and so true. I would buy a tshirt with that on it
I've read people here talking about how they not only deleted their accounts but used one of those account scrubbers to go through and edit all their comments and a few weeks later looked and it had been restored
They lost so many content creators over the past few months, they'll need to give their enshitification ability extra cooldown time before going back to it. Almost assuredly post-IPO sometime.
This is funny because isn't the main issue with federated content in relation to reddit that it is not easily googleable? So they are getting rid of the only advantage they have?
Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge, clarifying that the company’s earlier “nothing is changing” comment only applied to logins.
So glad I downloaded, overwrote, and then deleted all my content before I switched to the Fediverse
Nothing is changing
That's the same thing they told us regarding 3rd party apps. And it's the reason why many of us are here.