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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark (uk.pcmag.com)

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[-] Psychobilly1@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

There are 3.1 million subreddits.

That 8838 is the number of subs who pledged to protest in some capacity. A lot of them are big subreddits, but still. It's not like they've cut off access to 90% of the site like some people think.

[-] UnpopularBrainRot@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Yeah but how many of those millions are ghost towns?, since a lot of the biggest subs are participating I'm more curious about how reddit will handle it, replacing the mods in every one of them? That's a lot of man power, I hope whoever they put in charge isn't an idiot that does it for free, and what's more funny is that the best mod tools rely on the API and 3rd party access.

At the very least I expect a decline in quality content and spam, trolls, bots etc.

[-] EgyptUrnash@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago

My bet? AI.

If they have any kind of archive of past mod decisions then they can just dump all that into a neural net. And then they get to look all sexy in their upcoming IPO because they are using ⭐️⭐️⭐️ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE⭐️⭐️⭐️ like all the ⭐️⭐️⭐️SEXIEST⭐️⭐️⭐️ companies!!!1! No more of those annoying unpaid volunteers to get uppity any more!

I, for one, do not welcome our new AI moderation overlords, and will probably be done with Reddit if this happens. But I just know someone there has to be pushing for this.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It would take a considerable while to train an in-house LLM AI for moderation purposes, and even if it was trained honestly it would at least be consistent whereas you can get away with breaking mod rules as long as your meme made them chuckle, etc.

Who cares, AI will become a part of Lemmy too and I'm just done with reddit anyways.

[-] EgyptUrnash@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm not saying these putative AI mods would be any better than existing Reddit mods. They'd probably be even more arbitrary and capricious and unappealable, and I sure don't expect them to be anywhere near fully-trained. But they'd be owned by Reddit, who would now be ⭐️⭐️⭐️AN AI COMPANY⭐️⭐️⭐️, which is the replacement for "the blockchain" as a thing you vaguely mention your company using if you want rich, dumb investors to wet their pants and throw tons of money at you.

[-] sorenant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The word you're looking for is "buzzword".

[-] sorenant@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

That's the neat part, it doesn't have to be good.

[-] dystop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

even assuming reddit can ship an "AI moderation bot" that kinda works in the upcoming week (which will be the feat of the year), quality will start going down long before it can moderate at a good enough capacity to work well.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago

Over half my feed went dark. I was only getting posts from 4-5 subreddits, mostly news. That's a big impact on a user.

[-] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

All the subreddits I subscribe to went dark except for 1. It's a sub about this show called "From". I'm slightly disappointed in them

[-] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Losing RIF is what got me looking elsewhere.

[-] MoonshineBrew@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but those subs contain the majority of redditor interaction. ~70k people on a sub is enough to put it into the top 5%. The top 1% subs are very likely responsible for 50%+ of all reddit posts. Losing just a handful of them is a big deal.