• @[email protected]
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    578 months ago

    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.

    • IninewCrow
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      138 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        “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

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      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

  • Davel23
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    198 months ago

    Nothing is changing.

    Something is definitely changing.

  • HubertManne
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    108 months ago

    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?

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    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.

  • Otter
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    78 months ago

    Great I wasn’t thinking about it before but now I think that they WILL do this lol

  • @[email protected]
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    58 months ago

    Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge, clarifying that the company’s earlier “nothing is changing” comment only applied to logins.

  • PenguinCoder
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    48 months ago

    Glad to hear it; Spez and Reddit have been so trustworthy about prior changes, I have no reason to doubt them for this.*

    *~Doubt: HEAVILY~

    • ijeffOPM
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      28 months ago

      Whatever do you mean? Spez is completely honest and upstanding! /s

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    38 months ago

    So glad I downloaded, overwrote, and then deleted all my content before I switched to the Fediverse

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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    18 months ago

    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.