says the web megacommunity is on a roll.

“Outside, pretty viola; inside, rotten wood.”

I don’t interact with Reddit any more so it’s plain as day for me to see, when I do visit it, that the place changed considerably from the APIcalypse to now. It’s the decadence from the last ~5 years, except on steroids; brain drained, bots going rogue, users screeching at each other based on assumptions and mods doing nothing to handle it. Those trashy and large subreddits are fairly active, but it seems to me that activity for smaller subs went considerably down.

As cofounder and CEO Steve Huffman explained to The New York Times’ Mike Isaac, the company was concerned by how AI giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft were mining the wealth of knowledge in its discussion threads to train chatbots, thereby creating new competition for Reddit while it footed the bill.

And based on how he handled the third party apps, he’s likely omitting critical concerns.

And also, you know…

• [User] I made something!
• [Reddit Inc.] You made something? [snatches it] It’s mine. My precioooous!

“Reddit is an open platform, and we love that,” he told me. “

Holy shit, Greedy Pigboy’s ability to lie with a straight face never ceases to amaze me. It’s almost like he’s telling the interviewer “you’re gullible trash, aren’t you? Yes, you’re stupid, so are the things reading your article. I’m going to smear some bullshit on your snouts and you’re going to swallow it, like the filthy animals lacking human-like reasoning that you are.”

Sorry folks here for the tone. I can’t be bothered to read it further.

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Potentially hot take: perhaps it’s time to punish Reddit Inc. and Greedy Pigboy, isn’t it?