Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”
“People who fecklessly farm other people’s data upset at other companies are farming their data.”
fuck spez little piggy greedy soy boy
Hey ! Leave us soy boys out of it, we hate Spez as much as you do!
Remember when Reddit was pro net neutrality?
Spez has a bunker to build!
this has nothing to do with net neutrality
Giving preferential treatment to one service provider over another is 100% a net neutrality issue.
Net Neutrality is an ISP thing, this is a search engine thing. Maybe they’re related in some conceptual sense, but in terms of the actual definition of that term, they’re really not.
Net neutrality is about internet access and connectivity, not about what websites can do
(but yes they’re still hypocritical)
i have bad news about activitypub federation.
and spez will pay you for creating content.
/s
U/spez the former moderator of r/jailbait? Who might have connections to Ghilisaine Maxwell? Him?
Oh and PS - posting OC porn on Reddit is a very weird process and not transparent
Reddit should have to pay to work on windows…
Microsoft paying Reddit to pay Microsoft to pay Reddit to pay…
Stock prices absolutely skyrocketing with the news of this infinite revenue stream.
Ourobouros but it’s the CEOs €$¥%#ing each other’s #%¥$€s
We shouldn’t accept this behavior or other companies will follow!
That’s kind of how search engines work, buddy.
What’s “reddit”?
I think it is when you use the toilet - it is what you flush away.
They are just trying to leach out as much money as possible before the go the way of Digg.
Look at all the work we done… some 200million per year dude is selling it now…
aint this grand?!
On one hand, that’s a shitty, greedy move from Reddit. All of the data, and value is provided by the users.
On the other hand, Microsoft does want to feed it into OpenAI and present it on a Bing search engine result page rather than sending the visitor to Reddit where they might join a community (or view an ad or ten).
is there even anything of value on reddit?
Completely. Lemmy is far too small to have the value Reddit does.
I left Reddit due to their API bullshit, but I so miss all of the hobby communities I was part of, that has like-minded members, and a plethora of resources. It’s not easy to impossible to start communities such as reeftanks, homesteading, literature, bookcirclejerk, etc. on a platform as small as Lemmy. And beyond starting one, the quality and quantity will never match Reddit’s because Lemmy just doesn’t have the same reach.
Lemmy is great if you like Linux, like Star Trek, or are trans, but other than that, it’s missing so, so many demographics that make a wholistic platform.
trans
I feel this so hard, the sheer number of openly LGBTQ+ people here really skews the demographics of the site. I’m not saying it’s a problem, just saying that LGBTQ+ people are dramatically over-represented here. It’s an interesting contributor to lemmy culture, and I wonder how much that impacts homogeneity here (e.g. upvotes and downvotes for certain types of content).
But yeah, it’s missing a lot of demographics.
That said, I’m really into Linux (been using for >15 years), so that’s cool I guess.
As a cis straight man I’m taking this as a learning opportunity until the demographics level out. An inherently inclusive bias will be more helpful early on than more niche communities anyways.
Sure. Again, I’m not saying it’s bad, just that the bias seems to exist.
There are certainly worse biases that exist, such as very little representation from people on the right side of the spectrum, so hate against half the population seems to get a pass and downvotes silence constructive comments/posts just due to political bias. That’s incredibly frustrating, and I think the high focus on supporting LGBTQ+ people goes along with that (i.e. the message that conservatives “hate” LGBTQ+ people, which is only true for the more extreme end of conservatism).
That said, I do like the support LGBTQ+ people get, I just wish the demographics were a bit more diverse without sacrificing the culture. I live and work in a conservative area, but my company has built a pretty inclusive culture (at least for the area), so I think it’s totally possible.
Oh man I don’t miss that at all. Moderating out a pervasive delusion isn’t bias, any more than we’re biased in favor of a round Earth. On Reddit there were constant “enlightened centrists” who kept making appeals to moderation.
There’s nothing of value to be gained from conservatives. The “good” ones who don’t say the homophobia out loud are still voting for politicians who do. If it was just the extreme end, then Trump wouldn’t be their nominee. Hate is their normal now.
“If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, then you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
An absolutely prodigious back catalog of high quality images, interviews, and explainers. A treasure trove of historical content that’s been heavily indexed and participant-weighted for relevancy. And the bulk of it predates the infestation of AI, so its valuable just as sampling data for further iterative development of ChatGPT and other LLMs.
A lot of older posts are still relevant to specific hobbies. I will look up information on paper, some guitar information, but most posts from the last two years are not worth looking at.
There is also so much regurgitated LLM shit.
Reddit remains as valuable as ever. It’s amusing that you think it imploded a year ago just because a small number of users migrated here
It sort of did, thousands of useful comments were turned to gibberish, the mobile web site turned to shot, and the mobile app stopped properly working for communitys with specific content warnings.
