Pot calling the kettle black. Funny how they have a problem with AI accessing what they perceive as their data. Fucking moochers.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2025
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Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or profiles; instead, it will only be able to index the Reddit.com homepage, which effectively means IA will only be able to archive insights into which news headlines and posts were most popular on a given day.
Reddit is interesting right now. I took a look last week at the front page and there was an obvious post against trump. I checked inside and most of the comments were generic or something? Hard to pinpoint. It reminded me of conservative or td. I think they were bots? Here on lemmy, you might not get your post on the all page, but it seems like mostly real people.
Agreed, fellow human.
Yeah bro, eat and excrete everyday!
Totally I am so proud to be from earth. Earth food and earth sports are the best and no won can call themselves a rule human with blood like I totally am if they are not into that.
no won can call themselves
Psst, your human is showing
thats just how rule humans roll.
This is what I have witnessed as well being a native earthian.
You guys try any of that music lately?
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Yeah, I have visited Reddit a handful of times the last couple of years because there was no active community here for something I needed help with or to find more info about. And it's such a weird place now, all comments look like they're from bots, children or just incredibly dumb people. It's like a weird fever dream, very disturbing.
They made dead internet theory real because 'next quarter profits' brain.
I'm sure it's fine for the communities that people go back to, like the niche ones. But yeah, the big subs are weird and sterile.
It seems unlikely that there's a lot of people botting Lemmy right now just because...why bother? But I doubt there's anything systemic in place to prevent it, and I'd imagine that the decentralized nature would make it really easy to skirt attempts to block it.
I've come across quite a few bots, but I'm a mod so it might be that that's why. The mods and admins here on my instance are amazing, they catch a lot of crap. I think you're witnessing well ran instances, not an absence of bots.
Interesting, but what's stopping the bots from just jumping to a less well-ran instance?
They don't show up on the well ran ones, so that only matters if you're on the lesser instance. Those instances get blocked pretty quickly.
My only gripe with lemmy is that the huge instance controls what is on the all page and what is seen in their lemmy user's accounts. I think the biggest is owned by reddit or meta or some other place like that. Most handle the bots pretty well.
We had the whole... 'Fediverse Girl' thing, a while back now... somebody stole someone's pic and was was dming people as a sort of brute force catfish attempt...
But I haven't seen too much of anything else?
I miss Nicole :(
There there, she'll always be in our hearts.
And also possibly our image cache repositories, depending on your client/browser settings.
Honestly for the best, given how the site has degraded over the last decade.
Internet Archive doesn't need a thousand bots posting slurs at one another for eternity
Dead site full of bots
As I've been saying since Pictures For Sad Children disappeared: the Internet Archive should do it anyway.
Your website is public. Anyone can see it. Fuck off pretending otherwise.
What a weird pay model. Is their plan for AI companies to pay insane API fees to scrape data from Reddit? Why would anyone pay when every other model scrapes it for free?
Cool. Block links to it and other archives too.
That’s only fair. (And it’ll piss off reddit users)
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.