This might work against very generic bots, but it won't work against specialized bots. Those wouldn't even need to parse the DOM, just recreate the HTTP requests.

I can already hear the CPA/affiliate marketing bots spinning up lol.

None of the big ones were allowing NSFW posts on their instances, but anyone can create an instance that does allow it 🙂

There's lemmynsfw.com as well now.

That's great news 👏. I really hope most of the subs currently participating end up going indefinite. Especially with Spez shrugging off the whole thing in the media.

This is the sad truth. I honestly can't wait until Spez finds out that his glorified RSS feed isn't worth as much as he thought it was come the IPO. One of their investors already got the memo.

Even if we forget about advertising, 48 hours is just not enough to achieve anything and might actually be worse than no blackout at all if people want to see change. Louis Rossmann made some great points about that in his latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M

I can't think of a better way to put more gasoline on the fire. If it happens I hope the users revolt and completely shit up any sub where they pull this stunt. Let's see how long those new mods last then, and how many advertisers they lose.

Man that whole situation really sucks. Reddit was by far my most visited site before they decided to light the house on fire. On mobile I always used Boost because the official app is terrible and (at least the last time I looked at it) would drain my battery like it was nothing even when the app was closed. RIP. At least we've got Lemmy. I just wish these 3rd party apps would take their users to the fediverse instead of shutting down entirely. As a developer it really sucks when you have to shut down a project you've put so much work into.

It seems to me like StackOverflow is really shooting themselves in the foot by allowing AI generated answers. Even if we assume that all AI generated answers are "correct", doesn't that completely destroy the purpose of the site? Like, if I were seeking an answer to some Python-related problem, why wouldn't I go straight to ChatGPT or similar language models instead then? That way I also don't have to deal with some of the other issues that plague StackOverflow such as "this question is a duplicate of - closed!".

Yes I've noticed this as well. I think there's some denial mixed in there. Right now the 3rd-party apps still work. They can still use old.reddit. Adult content hasn't been banned on site and official app yet. The IPO and likely cash-out/sell-out that will follow is still some months away. A lot of the people are in the "this is fine" stage at the moment, similar to the situation over at Twitter. Most of them will see the light eventually. That said, there does seem to be a growing interest in Lemmy already.

Yup. I mentioned this on Reddit as well. OG Reddit vibes.