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moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay

www.theverge.com

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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay

www.theverge.com

moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • blackris@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Too bad. Hey, crazy idea: let’s create an open alternative for reddit with good content! Maybe something in the fediverse or so.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      that would never work

    • _g_be@lemmy.world
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      I think you’re onto something

  • badbytes@lemmy.world
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    Good, their answers are generally crap, and I wish they wouldn’t show in searches anyway.

  • Happywop@lemmy.world
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    So glad I found this alternative. reddit, mods are psychos and the average user not much better

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    The cycle continues:

    • Hey you guys can have everything for free
    • WTF this is expensive to provide, I think I’m gonna start taking advantage of you guys which someone will pay me to do
    • WTF where’s everyone going
    • WTF I’m still losing money and always have been
    • Screw you guys, screw everybody, I didn’t want y’all anyway
    • (fades into irrelevance, gets bought by someone and stripped for parts)

    Idk it’s not as pithy as Cory Doctorow’s version I guess

    Anyway we’re at step 5 at this point

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, Reddit is Digging its own grave.

      • zcd@lemmy.ca
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  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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    LMAO searching “____ reddit” is the only time I visit their site.

    They just really have no clue.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    Would lemmy instances do this?

    I know they can’t afford to now, but hypothetically? A lot of people here don’t seem to like data scraping for AI.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      Your Lemmy posts are already being scraped for AI

      The level of effort it would take to prevent would be infeasible to ask of even a non volunteer admin let alone a volunteer let alone literally all of them

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        Your Lemmy posts are already being scraped for AI

        Good, hopefully it’ll make AI that is slightly less toxic than the rest of the internet.

        It always baffles me that people don’t want their content represented in an AI - every word you write that gets indexed is a vote for how future AI will behave.

  • moe90@feddit.nlOP
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    just begin with site:reddit.com test for ddg and it still works

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      Are they new posts or old ones? They are blocking new ones, not old ones.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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        new posts do not work

        this post in /r/selfhosted is from 8hr ago: SWEKIT v0.1 - an open source library to build software engineering agents (DEVIN) in a agentic framework agnostic manner!

        reddit/redlib: https://redlib.kylrth.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1eb86lf/swekit_v01_an_open_source_library_to_build/

        doesn’t appear in DDG results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Areddit.com+SWEKIT+v0.1+-+an+open+source+library+to+build+software+engineering+agents+(DEVIN)+in+a+agentic+framework+agnostic+manner!&t=ffit

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    Tangentially related- I fucking hate discord

    • PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee
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      Discord is fine for chatting, voice, and iterating quickly on projects. I have no idea why people want to think it’s a forum. That’s ridiculous.

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        Its pretty awful for all those things if you care about privacy or can’t signup for an account

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