• raven55six@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Reddit is also killing itself lately. I hope it goes down forever and good platforms like Discuit or Lemmy become the mainstream thing.

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    4 hours ago

    There is a single silver thread in reddit these days— there are multiple subreddits dedicated to posting info about the epstein files. A subject US media has no interest in following.

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    Reddit is insufferable. It’s impossible to get an interesting convo going and the vast majority of posts are slop. Even the subreddits for hobbyists are affected. I’ll save a sad memory for the glory days but it’s time to move on.

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    6 hours ago

    reddit been so far gone for years it is kinda strange this happened now and not in 2022.

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    9 hours ago

    Translation: RSS feeds allowed users to access reddit posts without logging in which is a huge no no for data collection. It also enabled 3rd party open source reddit clients to function which is again a huge no no. For these reasons, we (reddit) are ending rss feeds

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    How sad that Aaron Swartz was there for the creation of RSS and Reddit. Like spitting on his grave by removing access to data and putting up walls.

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    2 days ago

    Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it’s something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They’re only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.

    Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?

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    1 day ago

    Sooo Reddit is doing this to get rid of bots… except the only users they have left are bots… weird.

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        1 day ago

        🫩 That feeling when you get banned from a community cause you typed in “Im a Black man” and the auto mod banned you for the world “Black”… 🫩

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      They own those bots though most likely.

      Just like the same endless crap keeps showing up on my meta feeds from bot accounts because it gains traction