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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1 (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I’ve been posting this to subs that haven’t blacked out:

Reddit wants to begin selling API data access to large AI companies at a really high margin so those AI companies can train their data on the content we generate and contribute to reddit, and reddit can make a shit ton of money on that.

This data API is also how third party apps and mod tools access reddit. Rather than charging apps a lower tier and AI companies a large one, reddit has instead decided to charge everyone for that data access.

As a result, not only are third party reddit apps going away because they’d have to charge huge fees to their users, but so are a lot of the tools that reddit’s unpaid volunteer moderators use to moderate subs, which means moderation quality is going to drastically drop soon.

In addition, the official reddit app is terrible for accessibility, and does not work with things like screen readers that blind or partially-sighted people use. These issues have been reported to reddit since alienblue became the official reddit app, reddit does not care to put money into fixing them. third party apps do this. people who rely on these apps to be able to even use reddit are basically getting kicked off reddit for being disabled.

All so reddit can cash in on all the content the communities of reddit produce, without compensating the content creators nor paying the unpaid volunteer moderators whose lives they just made way more difficult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

since data is so valuable because ai's are trained on it, i wonder what the impact would be when redditors edit their data (not delete it since it will still show up in google) to nonsense. ie, how much would chatgpt answers change? it already hallucinates... anyway, imagine if a lot of people decided to lie about something, what would happen?

and if /rchatgpt was working... i'd go there :(....... speaking of, i wonder if there are any chatgpt subs here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite this tool lets you do something similar.

I plan to make mine an explanation why i left, and an intro to lemmy etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the Power Delete Suite link! It seems like a very helpful tool. I appreciate it!

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