Reddit, the beginning of the end.

[ergophobe]

>>Just like Twitter.

Sure, but what I really want to know is whether Steve Huffman is planning to fight the winner of the Musk-Zuck bout

[rcjordan]

How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/23779477/reddit-protest-blackouts-crushed



Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/29/reddit-ramps-up-its-threats-to-protesting-mods-as-ad-buyers-leave/

[littleman]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/14n9bsz/tomorrow_reddits_api_changes_come_into_effect_how/

[littleman]

Re: twitter

>By Similarweb's count, Twitter saw a 7.7% traffic year-over-year drop in March alone. In addition, Twitter's unique visitor web count dropped 3.3% year over year in March. The Twitter Android app's average daily active users were down 9.8% in March, with monthly active users down 8% year over year. Within the US, monthly active users were down 14% on Android and 15% on iOS.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-seeing-record-user-engagement-the-data-tells-a-different-story/

Now you have to be logged in to see anything, I can't imagine that's going to make things better.   

[rcjordan]

Reddit Won't Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-api-changes-ai-labor/


Reading the title, I thought that the article would be about the hundreds of sites --from major news sites to individual blogs-- that use reddit as an "idea feed" or just plain lift/rewrite /r content.  This practice is probably more visible on my high-volume article feed system, but I've seen it for a couple of years now.  Usually, there's a one- or two-day lag.

[rcjordan]

Reddit plays the NSFW card....

You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvjmq/you-cant-look-at-porn-on-any-reddit-third-party-app-now

[Drastic]

It seems like most subs are back, with a few notables missing or changed like bestof. However, quality and volume seem to have tanked at least somewhat without 3rd party apps.

My feed is usually refreshed with new posts/content a couple times per day. Now it's maybe a day or more.

[rcjordan]

> with a few notables missing or changed like bestof. However, quality and volume seem to have tanked

Debbie agrees.

[rcjordan]

Still playing the NSFW card...

Reddit now explicitly allows AI-generated porn depicting fictional characters - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/21525998/reddit-ai-porn-fictional-characters-carveout-sexual-images

[rcjordan]

The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won.

https://gizmodo.com/reddit-news-blackout-protest-is-finally-over-reddit-won-1850707509


I follow a 3d printing subreddit that moved to kbin/lemmy.  About 2 weeks after it moved, users started posting in the original /r while posts on kbin started to dwindle.  Currently, **both** are barely active and not really worth a visit except once  or twice a month.  So the move was a lose-lose event.

[rcjordan]

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/reddit-strikes-60-million-deal-allowing-google-train-107461612

Reddit strikes $60M deal allowing Google to train AI models on its posts, unveils IPO plans - ABC News

[Brad]

Ahead of IPO, Reddit blends advertising into user posts

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/16/reddit_promoted_posts/

The enshitification continues.

[rcjordan]

>enshitification

...something, something "ad-infested flows"

I'm hoping Tmonkey will be able to salvage some of it.  So far, so good when used along with old.reddit

[rcjordan]

<+>
Saw this in the feeds lasst night;

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/reddit-reveals-ftc-inquiry-deals-licensing-users-data-108171386

Reddit reveals FTC inquiry into deals licensing its users' data for AI training - ABC News

[rcjordan]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/facebook-twitter-reddit-rubbish-ipo

First it was Facebook, then Twitter. Is Reddit about to become rubbish too? | Hussein Kesvani | The Guardian