11mo ago

Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract

Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract | TechCrunch

The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.

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I’m sad how far Reddit has fallen from its peak.
At the same time, I’m quite glad I left it a year ago.
- I tried to go back, but it feels hollow. Plus, the shit ton of ads didn't help.
  
  There is a handful of smaller communities that still exists that are still good. But most of them are gone or filled with content farming spam.
  
  Oh, absolutely. It’s completely lost its appeal for me. Moreso because a ton of the more technical subs I used to frequent were populated by power users, and a significant fraction of those users have very aggressively and thoroughly scrubbed their accounts. We’re mostly all on Lemmy now :)
  
  Out of curiosity, what subs did you hang out on that had the power users migrate over to Lemmy?
  
  Eh, I should clarify.
  That’s more of an inference on my part, judging from how often I come across threads that have a ton of the comments scrubbed to nonsense and/or deleted. It’s more noticeable when you have an extremely particular error or config issue that you’re digging around for. Used to be that you could just dump a part of the error message into google, append site:reddit.com, and usually get a pretty precise answer to your problem. Nowadays, its way harder to find, because much of the really good historical stuff got scrubbed (and, by extension, the users providing those answers are gone), and recent content is much more polluted with LLM-generated crap, which I simply do not trust for stuff like this.
  
  Sync for Lemmy now spams your screen with ads unless you fork over cash for the premium version. I immediately switched to connect app
  
  I'm be honest, I bought the premium version with my fat Google opinion money. What else can I do with it?
  
  For real, I think it's worth it. I use the app almost every day, and the app is easily the most intuitive for Lemmy.
  Jerboa fans, go back to your terminals 😅 jk.. sort of
  
  I literally never see ads on it.
  
  they drove away the back bone of content and replaced with shiti bots to try to drive engagement. it is not that obvious at first but a while a you just feel that it is dead.
  SEO killed google search, whatever this shit is deff killed reddit.
  volumes of content being generate tho...
  
  Most of you don’t remember, but way back when, ad money was crazy when no one knew how to advertise online. Banner ads could get $2 a click. It collapsed around mid year 2000. I see the same happening here.
- Your upvotes are at 69 so I just want to say nice post.

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