Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave
Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave
The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about cur…
The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…
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They're trying hard to make it like this is some issue about moderators, but they're just the most vocal group complaining about reddit trying to lock down its entire service for monetization and harming all users (and especially vulnerable users) in the process. Always be mindful of people trying to shift the focus like that.
They're ramping up bots to cover the loss of users.
Very very few people actually post, and a little more comment. But as bot posts became the majority, lurkers are going to start leaving as quality dips.
Maybe just me, but I totally want to see a Reddit where everyone actually is a bot.
There used to be a subreddit like that. Haven't seen it in years. Not sure if it still exists.
Subredditsimulator...
The creator said they were shutting down the server that ran it and wasn't interested in rebuilding.
Can't just have bots posting to each other over and over forever, either. Bots need to pull from what they're trying to imitate, and LLMs learning from themselves are already showing to be problematic.