All hail King Steven the Turd, Greediest of Pigboys

Reddit's stock is falling because they're eating themselves from the inside.

Apparrently you can't even read articles without an account now. Way to make yourself even less relevant.

Facebook also requires login, maybe that's why reddit thought they could do it too?
But I agree, I don't think it's a good recipe for reddit. People will just think "nothing to see here" and leave.

Both of these websites are stupid ASF because their CEOs and executives are dumb asses. By locking viewing behind an account all you are doing is killing your views and interactions. But this is what happens when MBAs, consultants and venture capital buys into a social site.

So… fuck spez?

This guy kind of goes into why that is. It's a great interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyt0pImMtiI

As the internet becomes flooded with synthetic content, people are craving real human perspective. We are the antidote to an automated web.

Says the guy whose site is flooded with bots.

Obviously I am looking forward to Trump's downfall, but spez is really up there in terms of fuckers I really want to see fail as well.

Who could possibly have seen this coming???

/s

I have never used facebook because I actually read the terms of service first.

I came here to comment that he’s the greediest of pig boys, but I see that you’ve already called him pig boy (correctly I may add). So while I could skip calling him a pig boy since you already called him a pig boy, I think it’s still appropriate for me to also call him a pig boy given the magnitude of his pig boy tendencies.

Pig boy.

🤣

Or those at the top never really cared. Collect their paydays, cash out when necessary, and remain satisfied with the IPO and all their other profit-oriented decisions through the years.

Enshittification 101, or something like that.

is Reddit really flooded with bots? I only visit the cryptography subreddit which seems pretty human to me

Hopefully AI will be like 3D TV's insofar as we as a culture look back in a few years with a collective "man, what a flop"

here if anyone wants to look at that shit:

https://www.facebook.com/terms/?lang=en

Yeah it depends on the sub but for the bigger ones it’s absolutely infested, if you go to one of the subs which takes removing bots transparently like the Tumblr ones you can get a sense of the scale.

The general subs aka the ones you see on the front page, are full of them. Niche ones like cryptography won’t have much bot activity, but it’s definitely not zero either.

and then in another decade they get a small resurgence

You and many others, myself included

Fuck u/spez!

google, anthropoic, claude all the other AI companies already scraped the site.

facebooks login can be bypassed with ublock origin.

yes, 50% are bots. the larger ones infested, and its usually always propaganda bots. you hear bots replying to bots, and ai bot posting. NEWS, and any news related sub, politics and any related sub are infested.

pics, all the intersting subs(interesting, intesrsingfuck, daminstering), natureislit, natureismetal is also infested with ai bot posts. all the AITA type subs is obvious, most of the ask subs. small niche subs are less affected, as are subs that require some kind of metric.(music, sports, celebrity discussion, movies, shows)

I use updated µblock origin in Firefox, and I don't see how I pass login with that?
But generally I only get there with links I didn't know go there. And then I get some nag screen, and I close that shit again immediately. If it's on facebook, it doesn't exist to me.

Better repost their content, that is what hurts them not just saying fuck them