Cool, now do the API and I’ll consider not actively avoiding your website.
I won’t. They’d have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.
I don’t really care how much Steve gets out of it, I just want a not-terrible platform. So I’m cool with a golden parachute if that’s what it takes to get rid of him and get someone better for the platform.
That’s not happening though, so I’ll just avoid the platform.
I don’t mind him having golden parachute- it is heavier and most likely won’t open.
Golden-plated cement boots, dropped from above the Mariana Trench.
And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it’s way too bloated.
I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn’t connect on VPN, I left again.
So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.
The fediverse is an excellent place to find training data for AIs. I would just set up a bot that follows a bunch of people and let them send their data to me, then I don’t even need to bother with scraping.
They’re going to do that regardless, they’ll just scrape instead of using the API.
I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I’m totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they’ll have to go through a sales contract).
The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn’t a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.
Not even the API. Just a usable page that doesn’t feel so broken and bloated.
Did they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.
Nope, that is still there, RES still works as well
Ok at least something. Not going back, but that was always the last potential nail in the coffin.
Sort of, you no longer can sign in or create an account without using the new site
That ship has sailed, I thoroughly nuked an account that almost could have drunk in the us and I’d be fucked if I make another after the assholes restored my comments as by [deleted] or some shit and now they’re training fucking electronic snoids to parrot my wisdom and humor to obsolete me. It’s the principle I object to, I piss in this pot here knowing full well there’s runoff across the fediverse and I’d never be able to sponge back all the piss, but those assholes lie and steal.
Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.
I’m done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.
Fail shitlers
Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.
I hate the fact that I’m only about 90% sure you’re joking.
I’m not. It’s in the article.
Damn, they just can’t miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?
Poe’s law hits hard sometimes.
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So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.
Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history
You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.
People spend real money in reddit. What a bunch of loosers.
That’s what I thought when I first saw gold back in 2010…
While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.
r/lounge was easily the cringiest community I have ever encountered on reddit.
beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.
That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.
Now…
“great, I got upvoted by reddit “blue” subscribers…this is so special :/” energy
Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe
I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.
Then I realized awards was a scam all along.
It’s okay, Reddit. I don’t post anymore.
Deleted my 15 year old account. I’m not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.
I’d delete my account, but then people wouldn’t see my advertisement for Lemmy in my profile. Plus my repeated 'FUCK REDDIT’s.
Meh, it’s just another publicly traded company now, it’s just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.
I’m happy to be here
Ok, we are not coming back anyway
I’ve got all the awards we need right here.
Lemmy Bronze: Hitting the little star on the post.
Lemmy Wooden Nickel: Upvotes
Would be nice if authors could see the amount of stars their content has.
Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”
“Genius! Who would’a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!”
I hate it when I’m punished for good ideas.
10 000 x 0 is…
Reddit sucks balls
So true.
Oh, they’re being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling “gold” (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can’t give is the old-style reddit “gold” (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.
Why have a thriving community when you can kill the nice and/or helpful ones with a lead pipe and then try to squeeze money out of the remaining morons?
