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Well I'm glad my leaving the platform had such an impact, I never said
Boo!
Whatever, this is far from the end of the story, and Lemmy has nothing but time. The bigger they are, the harder they fall in the end.
Lemmy has nothing but time.
Isn't Lemmy decreasing in numbers?
I vividly remember the Digg migration and Reddit is so very much like Digg these days.
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I’m thinking AI-powered something is going on, for sure.
The bot generated comments are training AI... full circle
It won't be long before the internet is just bots talking to each other and advertisers paying them to do so.
I CALL BULLSHIT
Just as we are all leaving for Lemmy. Reddit now makes you have an account to access some of their shit. Good riddance!
Fuck Spez
(Hey noone else said it in this thread so I think I have to)
This is important for everyone to hear regularly. Thank you
apparently, the path to profitability was "shamelessly sell out on AI hype bullshit"
Which is a good reminder to everyone to support your local Lemmy instances.
Well and behind it is stealing other peoples' work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.
TBH, it feels like social media always needed some back door business like this to make it profitable.
It's almost like human communication is not supposed to be a product or something...
After selling user generated content to Ai.
Doesn't seem like that gravy train will roll on forever
It cannot - more and more content is coming from AI so they are just "relearning" what one of the AI platforms has already produced... the endgame of that is convergence on nothing new being produced from AI
A couple months ago, I logged into an old Reddit account. It only took a few minutes of scrolling before it happened.
I had to scroll back up and try again, and record my screen so I could doublecheck my count later.
35 ads or “recommended” posts (i.e. not from anything I subscribed to) in a row.
I’m curious what that means for the overall percentage of the average user’s feed.
Edit: Okay yall... I appreciate all of the free technical support, but it's really not needed. I was just documenting some findings.
But since everyone is so concerned about improving my Reddit experience, here are a few things to consider:
I still browse reddit, honestly more than I do lemmy, but its mostly reddit old with adblock. Even on browser even though that is painful to navigate.
With properly curated subs its not so bad, but there definitely is still something missing. Also holy cow the current algorithm on reddit is trash. It used to be that the front page changed and shifted but sometimes I see the same crap on my front page for 2 days. It's insane!
I know this might sound a little condescending, but why are you torturing yourself by not using an adblocker?
I was using the mobile app.
Android Firefox has access to adblockers though??
That app is a special kind of inhuman torture.
98 million are bots
Indeed, you will note that they carefully chose the moniker "Daily Active Uniques" and not "Daily Active Users".
I think that speaks volumes, as humans are definitely harder to retain.
ok now i am 100% sure im hoping for an ai bubble
Deceased users’ estates still haven’t agreed to the new terms, have they?
That's all well and good, but it comes at the expense of the user experience.
As I often mention in other communities, this smells like value ~~exploitation~~ extraction* from a distance. Value ~~exploitation~~ extraction typically generates a peak of profit in the short term, but it makes losses even harsher in the long run.
As such I don't think that Reddit is getting "bigger". That profit is like someone who lives in a wooden house, dismantling their own home to sell it as lumber; of course they'll get some quick cash, but it's still a bad idea.
In a letter to shareholders, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman attributed the recent increase in users to the platform’s AI-powered translation feature.
Let's pretend for a moment that we can totally trust Huffman's claim here. Even human translations often get some issues, as nuances and whatnots are not translated, and this generates petty fights, specially in a younger userbase like Reddit's; with AI tendency to hallucinate, that gets way worse. And even if that was not an issue, a lot of content is simply irrelevant for people outside a certain regional demographic.
*EDIT REASON: I switched the terms, sorry. (C'mon, I'm L3.)
L3?
Shorthand for third language [English] speaker. I mean that I'm prone to switch a few words here and there, due to other languages interfering inside my head.
Really wonder how they plan to increase their revenue on the AI training data, especially now that a significant amount of their data is "poisoned" by the models they try to train