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gravitas_deficiency, in Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract

I’m sad how far Reddit has fallen from its peak.

At the same time, I’m quite glad I left it a year ago.

BobbyNevada,

I tried to go back, but it feels hollow. Plus, the shit ton of ads didn’t help.

gravitas_deficiency,

Oh, absolutely. It’s completely lost its appeal for me. Moreso because a ton of the more technical subs I used to frequent were populated by power users, and a significant fraction of those users have very aggressively and thoroughly scrubbed their accounts. We’re mostly all on Lemmy now :)

Skepticpunk,

Out of curiosity, what subs did you hang out on that had the power users migrate over to Lemmy?

gravitas_deficiency,

Eh, I should clarify.

That’s more of an inference on my part, judging from how often I come across threads that have a ton of the comments scrubbed to nonsense and/or deleted. It’s more noticeable when you have an extremely particular error or config issue that you’re digging around for. Used to be that you could just dump a part of the error message into google, append site:reddit.com, and usually get a pretty precise answer to your problem. Nowadays, its way harder to find, because much of the really good historical stuff got scrubbed (and, by extension, the users providing those answers are gone), and recent content is much more polluted with LLM-generated crap, which I simply do not trust for stuff like this.

applepie,

they drove away the back bone of content and replaced with shiti bots to try to drive engagement. it is not that obvious at first but a while a you just feel that it is dead.

SEO killed google search, whatever this shit is deff killed reddit.

volumes of content being generate tho...

bradorsomething,

Most of you don’t remember, but way back when, ad money was crazy when no one knew how to advertise online. Banner ads could get $2 a click. It collapsed around mid year 2000. I see the same happening here.

PlantDadManGuy,

Sync for Lemmy now spams your screen with ads unless you fork over cash for the premium version. I immediately switched to connect app

bradorsomething,

Your upvotes are at 69 so I just want to say nice post.

zcd, in Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned
militaryintelligence, in ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month

Them fighting it should tell you how bad we need net neutrality

BrikoX, in X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content
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I guess they finally accepted they are incapable of defeating porn bots, so now they are embracing them.

themeatbridge, in Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month

Cough cough xManager cough hack.

BrikoX, in Binit is bringing AI to trash
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Can this useless trend die already? Please…

SteefLem, in President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill
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“…approach to banks and crypto.

Specifically, the resolution targeted the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 121, which presents guidance around how banks can handle customers’ crypto assets — in effect, they must treat those assets as liabilities. Banking groups have criticized this approach as making it prohibitively expensive for them to handle crypto, while regulators argue it’s necessary to protect investors, particularly after the collapse of high-profile crypto companies like FTX.”

DavidGarcia, in Meta’s AI is summarizing some bizarre Facebook comment sections

I always thought it would be cool to have an AI that only shows you maximally diverse comments on social media. Like if you have 90% of all people saying the same thing and 10% saying something different, you get 2 comments summarizing each opinion.

Especially on Reddit everything is buried under the dribble of the hivemind. It would be cool if you could only extract the actually interesting viewpoints.

Assian_Candor, in Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries
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We’ve gotta ban these things locally before they get adopted

TachyonTele, in Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups

Very cool. Execs being liable should be the norm.

LadyMeow, in Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

What was the draw for this thing? Was it super cheap or something? Seems like a bluetooth stereo would have been a much better play.

BrikoX,
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It was 90 at pre-order/launch and then 50 after they discontinued it after a few months, but still kept selling it.

LadyMeow,

I see so not really cheap either. No matter what, shitty of then to brick their discontinued device….

z3rOR0ne, in Report: Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI
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Jesus…so let’s do a count now… OpenAI has deals with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Reddit, StackOverflow…just…wow

regrub, in Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council

I see more legal and reputational damages on the horizon lol

can, in Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

Apparently, YouTube had automatically scanned Albino’s video and detected the washing machine chime as a song called “Done”—which Albino quickly saw was uploaded to YouTube by a musician known as Audego nine years ago.

But when Albino hit play on Audego’s song, the only thing that he heard was a 30-second clip of the washing machine chime. To Albino it was obvious that Audego didn’t have any rights to the jingle, which Dexerto reported actually comes from the song “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) from Austrian composer Franz Schubert.

The song was composed in 1817 and is in the public domain

Yep, very broken. Can’t the EU intervene or something?

ynazuma, in Report: Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI

Another winning money grab for apple

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