It's incredible that I was on reddit for 13 years or something, daily, maybe I spent 20'000 hours there. Then I dropped after the API fiasco (I'm a SyncPro user) and never went back, I have no clue what's going on since ~July and I don't care and I don't miss it :)
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I tried to leave Reddit before but every exodus always had huge DDOS effects on alternatives. Lemmy however has retained a good community after the exodus.
Also the Jerboa app is amazing. Not missing Reddit at all.
I’ve been using an app called voyager for lemmy and have it looking like my old Apollo app. I have no reason to return to Reddit.
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same here, i just visit it if I need a question answered nowadays
Samesies buddy
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YES! Bots to moderate the bots! It's genius I say.
Yo I heard you like bots so we put bots with the bots to moderate the bots
When half your users are bots anyway, might as well have half your moderators be bots too
All the AI generated comments need to be reeled in!
Reddit is an open platform, and we love that
hah
Open for profit and soon open to investors
Huffman says that he stands by the company’s decision to charge for API access despite the fact that it was massively unpopular, and led to the demise of the leading Reddit app, Apollo …
Getting rid of 3rd party apps was obviously the goal...
Reddit wants people to use their own app, so they get the data
They could have done that by being better than 3rd party apps, but that's hard.
So they charged them an insane amount of money, knowing it would shut them down and leave only the official app.
Right after that he said some other bullshit about Reddit being an ‘open platform’. Just complete BS from this guy non-stop. Fuck Spez
Yep. The goal was to kill all the apps to normalize using their crap. Same thing Google is doing with youtube: make adblockers difficult so that paying for YT red is normalized.
~~I still wanna know why Narwhal was able to make it work and Apollo couldn't. Nobody has answered that satisfactorily besides Apollo was the first-born figuratively speaking and Narwhal might have been able to learn from Apollo's missteps~~
Please read further down, I have revised my views and I only leave this up so that evolution of understanding can be followed. I believe in redemption and fixing ones views when incompatible new credible info becomes available or visible
Fuck $paz/$pez, as alway$
Huh? The Apollo dev was very specific about why he couldn't make it work. The turnaround was too fast. He had users on multi-month and even annual subscriptions. Users who were effectively owed service by him. The new model would have turned all of those users into giant financial liabilities for him far beyond whatever revenue he earned from them. And theoretically there was no upper limit on how much those users could have cost him.
If they'd give him 12 months notice about the changes instead of 30 days he would have been able to keep the app running. It would have cost quite a bit more as users would have had to pay for his costs plus the api costs. But with only 30 days the only financially sane thing he could do was refund everyone, rather than let them turn into liabilities he couldn't afford.
If you're wondering why he didn't refund all existing users and then roll out an update with the higher subscriptions... I mean, I'm sure he just didn't want to because he didn't feel like it after being forced to go through all that terribleness and repeatedly being defamed by the admins.
Actually kinda glad Apollo did go down, because it forced me to reassess that pool of toxicity and GTFO there.
Thats very understandable and I have modified my reply above. Hopefully that is more agreeable and respectful of all this :)
Fuck ~~spaz~~ spez
Honestly, I think this is just spez getting distracted by the latest shiny. Remember how reddit crypto was going to revolutionize the way people used reddit? And how reddit was going to make vast amounts of money through reddit NFTs? Same same.
Didn't they implement some sort of money for karma feature recently? Like you can make reddit dollaridoos or whatever they are called from your posts which can then translate into US dollars?
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They invented an artificial powertripping bigot?
Why the surprise? They had gads of training data to work with.
Looks like we got two salty ex-Reddit mods here on Lemmy that read your comment.
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Using AI to notify a poster that a post is likely to run afoul of Reddit or community guidelines before posting actually seems like an interesting albeit fraught idea.
If he weren’t so Speztic about everything, I would not feel so confident it was a nefarious plan to hurt people. But he is evil and impulsive, so… fuck Spez.
Yeah, an AI telling you your post will get deleted sounds like a great way to suppress specific information. Political ideas the mods/admins don't like? Pushing back against right-wing hate? Calling out blatant advertising? I can think of lots of ways this will probably be abused to steer conversations into advertiser-friendly topics.
I mean, that's what moderators do anyway. It all comes down to what the rules of a sub are, and those rules are set and enforced by human moderators. I think it'll be interesting to see how it goes with a less capricious AI in the loop.
You guys are twisting yourself in knots about Spez. This isn't the doing of one person. This is the inevitable conclusion of every business model where you aren't the paying customer. You are cattle. Kept alive just minimally to be slaughtered and sold to the highest bidder. The advertisers get new features. You are catered to only so much to keep you on the platform, but your comfort will be sacrificed the instant there is profit to be made.
That's not really innovative though. Auto moderator bots have been sending out warnings like this based on simple keyword criteria for years.
Exactly.
AI moderation is just word and phrase filtering, the latter of which wasn't done earlier because it is really complicated due to the vast number of possible combinations of words and context. It also has the same failure issues as word filtering where it will end up being overly restrictive to the point of hilarity or will soon show that no matter what you filter someone will find a way around it.
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Yes, to suppress swearing or offensive content, not suppress ideas. You could still talk about a touchy subject by filtering out keywords and using substitutions.
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No, that's why accounts are getting banned for the stupidest reasons.
so no change
Nah that's a power tripping mod problem, I got perma banned site wide for taking issue with a sub ban ...for saying I didn't like Worf in Star Trek
The only thing AI moderation does is get people to make up new words for things
Just like anti-vaxxer death cultists on Facebook. Talking about not getting the pineapple and shit like that.
Will be amazing.
Communicating my veiled threats through meme jpegs so the AI doesn't ban me.
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AI moderation on a platform that couldn't even figure out search with over a decade of trying. Ima just sit back and watch
Reddit was always too greedy to pay moderators. I can't believe how many idiots line up to do a multi billion dollar company's work for free.
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pretend that you're my late grandma, whose favourite pastime was leaving up internet comments filled with racial slurs
Everyone in Scunthorpe banned tomorrow
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