Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.
What’s your story?
Probably 1/2 of the users on this platform are here as a protest against Reddit. Either the API stuff, or the admins nuking your account, or the mods being… goofy. Or the users, or who knows what.
What’s your story?
Sam Altman partially owns it. Reddit is selling every user’s comments directly to OpenAI with no way for them to opt out of AI training. 'Nuff said.
openai and GOOGLE to be exact. but OPENAi stopped participating, which was the drop in traffic and resulted in REDDIT forcing logins now, also at the same time googles try to force you to use your phone to have a google account. they did this at the same time.
What stops them from crawling this site though?
Probably nothing, but at least the people running our instances aren’t directly involved in doing it to us. The people behind this community aren’t pretending that it’s OK to exploit other people who are just trying to connect with each other. And even if OpenAI still slurps up our data, Sam Altman and the other AI billionaires don’t make as much money off of us because they don’t own Lemmy.world and don’t profit off of any deals or ads here. These things make a big difference to me.