Reddit has become the face of enshittification
I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
I just wanted to peek at the front page. I guess they don’t want people to use their shit anymore. I’m starting to believe in the dead internet theory.
njordomir, Every time I see that stupid little alien, I change my mind about visiting. I see Spez’s smug grin on that stupid little goo blob avatar and it just makes me want to find my info anywhere else.
Ultragigagigantic, Anytime I think about making a comment if I happen to be on reddit researching a niche thing, I think “do I want to give Spez $5? FUCK NO!”
He can make his own content. I couldn’t imagine putting in a thankless job moderating and watching that shitter slide up to the bank to withdrawal your free time and effort.
AtariDump,
fuckingkangaroos, All jokes aside, fuck that greedy sociopath.
dylanTheDeveloper, Steve Fart Huffer
ruckblack, Lol yeah I can’t get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.
henfredemars, My work is also banned due to “suspicious” activity.
RGB3x3, They’re banning VPNs. I have no idea why, but reddit is unusable at this point.
Kid_Thunder, So people training their AI models have to pay them instead of scraping them for free. Got to make those share holders happy, right? Even if it goes against its own founding ideals.
henfredemars, It could be a simple way to prevent bots which clearly isn’t working, or perhaps users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
DarkThoughts, Don't they have an onion site?
fuckingkangaroos, users who reveal their IP address are worth more to advertisers.
I suspect they’re able to track a lot of they have your IP address.
_number8_, i’ve never had an office job but it’s extremely obnoxious they seem to regularly filter the internet like you’re in school. there were so so many important resources (including youtube) which had legitimate educational and technical value they’d take away as some bullshit austerity ritual
theherk, That isn’t the issue here. I agree with you, but in this case the filter is on Reddit’s side. It is common and justifiable for corporate machines to use a vpn. Sometimes public traffic doesn’t go through, but not always.
Ultragigagigantic, A shame you had lame tech Bros at your job. Ive had a couple office jobs and they both restricted a ton of stuff but they left reddit open.
yhvr, While I do agree that this is bad, I’m a little confused—what does this have to do with dead internet theory? Doesn’t that relate to users being bots?
3volver, That no one really uses reddit, that it’s dominated by bots masquerading as real people.
Onii-Chan, I swear you can actually spot entire chains of comments consisting of only bots replying to other bots on every single submission that makes it to the front page. It's baffling how fast and hard reddit has fallen.
RandomlyRight, Do you have an example? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve heard a lot about this theory but can’t really imagine how you would differentiate bots from mindless redditors farming for karma by saying „This.“
Onii-Chan, Hey sorry for the late reply, I was just waiting for the perfect example, and I found one: https://kbin.social/m/reddit@lemmy.world/t/995008/Reddit-if-full-of-bots-thread-reposted-exactly-the-same
DarkThoughts, The obvious ones are simple repost bots. They start with 1 account reposting some popular submission, then you'll likely find at least 1 or more other accounts in the comments reposting a popular comment from the original post. They typically are created at the same time and have a similar pattern of maybe a handful of comments and submissions. When I was still using Reddit I saw them all the time on /r/all. Nowadays you also find a lot of bots reposting someone else's comment in the same chain, maybe with slight grammatical changes. There's some people and even a bot account that call those accounts out. I've seen a metric shitton of this happening since the last big shitstorm (which also really changed the content on /r/all for the worse).
I think LLM based ones are probably harder to spot because they would sound a lot more natural and their profiles would look more organic.
ZeroCool, Yeah, reddit started blocking VPN users a few months ago unless you log in.
Faresh, Also TOR, but you can easily tell it to use a different circuit and most of the times it isn’t blocked, in my experience.
henfredemars, (edited ) That’s actually a deprecation warning. You’re meant to move to a more modern platform.
3volver, I’m already here.
andrew, How do we know you’re actually here though? 🤔
Ultragigagigantic, From my limited understanding… If he was from a different instance he would have a username like this: username@nerdshit.nerdshit
fuckingkangaroos, We’ll make something better.
LinkOpensChest_wav, I can no longer browse reddit because I’m perpetually connected via a commercial VPN on my phone, and the site no longer allows it
Turns out VPNs really can provide benefits after all
Alice, Is anyone aware that you have to change this? It bases it off your IP as soon as you make an account you have to change that in your settings to turn that off. Not sure if this helps at all but I just don’t understand
https://hilariouschaos.com/pictrs/image/fccb5cba-1caf-4cad-8f48-d6ac33794004.webp
lvxferre, Ah, I remember this crap. It’ll show you content based on location. I’m almost certain that it’s unrelated to the block.
henfredemars, I don’t think that this affects their blocking. If it did, then bots would be able to change this to get around it as well.
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