Stopped using and producing content for reddit a long time ago.
Long live Lemmy.
A Call for a Freer Web
Aaron Swartz’s legacy is a stark reminder of the ongoing battle for information freedom. His story indicts legal systems that can be weaponized and highlights the corporate enclosure of the digital commons.
Key Takeaways:
- The CFAA can be a tool for disproportionate prosecution and intimidation.
- Corporate imperatives can transform open platforms into controlled, monetized spaces.
- The “transfer” of concern was one of control and vision, not physical assets.
- Algorithmic curation can subtly shape discourse and limit exposure to diverse views
Swartz’s life compels us to critically interrogate the forces shaping our online world. We must advocate for digital infrastructure as a public utility, renew commitment to information freedom, and collectively imagine and build digital spaces for authentic democratic participation, transcending the logic of profit and control.
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Thats like nice and all and thanks for saying the truth but my question ks what can we actually do?
(And you better not say ‘just write to your representatives’ please)
What we can do:
. Stop contributing to our collective demise by avoiding companies / groups that are enforcing slavery ( i.e.: Reddit, blackrock group, CCP, etc…)
. Vote everyday with your choices ( wallet, travel, etc…)
. Lead by example: Make excellence an habit!
. Support Free & Open Source Software which is privacy respecting
because of AI bots
We all know they really were just looking for any excuse
It’s technically true. They want those bots to pay for that access.
They’ll still allow AI bots. Only the ones they authorize though. Without them their paying customers will realize how many people have left.
I’m glad to hear that from someone that’s as anti-ai as you
Honestly like I hate AI but I still use it
They killed access to old Reddit without an account a couple months ago. Also i saw some people can’t access the new one without an account but i guess they are rolling out that one slowly.
They’re making the website viewable only with an account.
reddit dies more every day than the day before and it’s already long dead
Reddit died long ago with Aaron Swartz murder.
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?
They’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.
Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.
I still go on reddit often since that’s where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.
Same, Lenny isn’t mature enough to have some of the very niche communities yet
It’s not even mature enough to have an active Minecraft community, imagine how’s the situation with smaller or indie games…
It’s not even mature enough to support some mainstream interests, like sports.
no laundry community on Llemmy either…
Lol what is this, I’m out of the loop here lol
Lemmy doesnt have a laundry dedicated community anywhere that Ive looked… reddit does however…
So I guess the Lemmings let mama and dada do their laundry for them still 😅
You should start a community for those games. Or contribute to an existing one. Be the change
Assuming they have the energy and time to dedicate to it, alternatively they could just go to Reddit with minimal effort.
I mostly stick to Lemmy but there are times when I have a question to ask and the larger number of eyes on it does feel better even if it’s just a placebo
i had to ask very specific questions, that Reddit has the niche subs for, that lemmy doesnt have recently.
ew
Unfortunately a good chunk of linux distro resources and troubleshooting, and also many hobby stuff is over there.
This one is surprising to me. If there’s one thing that Lemmy has a lot of, its Linux enthusiasts
i stopped missing them when i found this place
When I search for things at work, and reddit may have the top result, I stopped clicking them becasue they want me to log in.
When I search for things on my phone, and reddit is one of the top results, I stopped clicking it because now it won’t let me read it in browser, and forces me to use their app.
They got rid of old reddit.
Clearly they are trying to pad their logged-in user counts.
I’m done. I’m sorry to say that I’d rather have an AI-generated answer (that likely is citing the right answer on reddit anyway) than to give reddit the satisfaction of making me open their app or log in.
Fuck them.
Fuck spez.
RIP AaronSw.
They got rid of old reddit
They didn’t. You need an account though.
It’s the same thing.meme
Potato potato. They are joining the shit tier of websites that have “the result” you’re probably looking for, but won’t let you see it without logging in or using their app.
Same reason I fucking hate Instagram.
Obligatory Fuck Spez
Don’t fuck Spez actually, there’s no doubt in my mind he’s a terrible shag.
I know we all collectively hate Reddit here - no sarcasm on my end -, but I hate to think what it’s gonna be like 10 years from now.
The sheer amount of good information I’ve obtained from Reddit over these last 15 years: mental, physical health, nutrition, tech, jobs… all for free, as it should be! It’s insane when you think about it.
Imagining a world where I’ll have to get charged to search every little thing, and yet get biased information due to ads and marketing… All of this sucks so much.
How are you guys gonna cope with this? What do you intend to do in the future I mean.
Ending the public API also prevents reddit users from deleting their post history without manually removing each post.
If you want to scrub your post history and prevent reddit from profiting from your input, use Power Delete Suite while you still can.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
It is unlikely that reddit allows users to delete their content from the backend but this at least keeps your posts out of search results, which is a large part of their value.
Note: Use this Suite, but do not delete your account. Check back regularly to make sure your posts stay deleted. When I did mine, they were restored multiple times.
Never forget what made sites like Reddit popular in the first place. That can always be rebuilt. Reddit can die without it meaning we have to give up what Reddit was.
If only there was some site like Reddit but not centrally controlled by a corporation.
The information will still be there as long as they don’t remove entire posts by users who have deleted their user names and keep an archive going.
Someone should be making a reddit archive site. Like an exact read-only clone to retain all the information people have access to before they remove it all to accommodate Ai on their servers.
It’s useless if you can’t access it without an account, though, and they’re banning accounts left, right and centre over the stupidest reasons.
i would avoid anything related to current events, politics or news, thats where the bans are. im on solely niche topics after a year ago i got banned, made a new account recently and only ask question in a very niche sub.
Lol Reddit
I actually forgot about Reddit in the same way I forgot about Friendster… Which I want to point out is also still around and being used by real people, somehow.
I wish Lemmy was more popular. I still use Reddit for niche things; for example, I’m getting a new Pebble watch and I want to see posts about that. Here, the whole community has a small handful of posts. On Reddit there are new posts every day. Sigh!
Lemmy won’t ever become bigger than what it currently is. I’ve been waiting for years but the reality is that Lemmy will forever be a niche platform for left wing politics that’s banned on Reddit and tech bros.
There’s right wing politics too. Don’t be weird bro.
On here? Where?
There are a few communities. One example: [email protected]
Bruh, it’s dead. The last post was made over a year ago
I’m sure there are others. That’s just the one I thought of off the top of my head.
I finally got around to setting up a lemmy instance just because of this. Cant stop what you dont control…
How much does it cost you to host?
nothing. I run a few small pc “servers” at home for homelab stuff anyway. I just set it up because I could. I could always use someone elses instance but it was a fun thing to do.
I’m genuinely concerned that this is considered newsworthy. Enough of you still frequent that shit hole for this news to be handy?
Reddit is bigger than ever. It’s mainstream.
Lurking at it when I get redirected to it, it’s not. It has been getting less valuable activity since then. Niche communities have died because of this
Yeah but that’s not because of fewer visitors, it’s because they shat all over their contributors.
I keep an eye on some communities to find when do they move over to fediverse or to classic forums. it ain’t much, but it’s honest waiting.
Next: reddit is killing its HTTP interface to stop AI bots
Sooo Reddit is doing this to get rid of bots… except the only users they have left are bots… weird.
They’re JUSTIFYING it with AI bots. Very different.
