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NocturnalMorning
lemmy.world

The Washington Post reported Friday that Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data

Funny, they are negotiating how best to sell OUR data. Might be time to delete your account and all its comments if you haven't already.

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IninewCrowreply
lemmy.ca

Isn't this the business model that's as old as humanity?

Workers make a bit of wealth with their work ... Workers give wealthy rulers wealth ... Wealthy rulers use that wealth to make more wealth ... And everyone praises the wealthy ruler for being so smart?

We haven't evolved ... we're just cavemen with cat memes and nuclear weapons.

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billbasherreply
lemmy.world

“We haven't evolved ... we're just cavemen with cat memes and nuclear weapons.”

Hahaha that’s great and so true. I would buy a tshirt with that on it

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EdibleFriendreply
lemmy.world

I've read people here talking about how they not only deleted their accounts but used one of those account scrubbers to go through and edit all their comments and a few weeks later looked and it had been restored

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psycho_driver
lemmy.world

They lost so many content creators over the past few months, they'll need to give their enshitification ability extra cooldown time before going back to it. Almost assuredly post-IPO sometime.

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HubertManne
kbin.social

This is funny because isn't the main issue with federated content in relation to reddit that it is not easily googleable? So they are getting rid of the only advantage they have?

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Otter
lemmy.ca

Great I wasn't thinking about it before but now I think that they WILL do this lol

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drislands
lemmy.world

Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge, clarifying that the company’s earlier “nothing is changing” comment only applied to logins.

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