If you are using Google AI, then an advertizing company is starting to know you way way too much.
Gemini feels 1000x more personalized from old conversations than any other AI. That isn't going to stay in just that chat window.
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Reddit sucks, form me it was being shadowbanned for no reason (really I didn't troll anyone). I tried asking why (although maybe suspicions that I was trying proton VPN at the time), i followed their procedures, never found out why (no mods that answered to me knew why) or managed to take it off until I said to myself "why bother"? I was there trying to help mostly. So yes, fuck reddit.
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Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Reddit is the worst site ever, second only to Fandom
I wouldn’t say ever, it had a moment there
I still don't get "Reddit stock". What value does a trumped up BBS offer?
Have you seen how it is lately? It's a glorified tabloid. It's largely used for pop culture gossip. People know it's slop, and they don't care. They use it anyways.
Reddit is far from the days of being a modernized tech BBS. At least 10 years removed from it. In it's current incarnation it's an interactive daily newspaper with Bat Boy stories on the front cover. That's what they're selling. And it does sell.
They place ads and sell reddit gold also user and site data. That extremely valuable
They pretended that the content was written by humans. And Google needed data upon which to train its AI. I don't think there's any value in that, but if you are an AI investor, you might want to ride your bubble.
The rest of us know that Reddit is full of bots and you shouldn't be training anything on it. But if you're looking at data from three or more years ago, then maybe that's more human written. Of course Reddit and Google deny that bots dominate, but we know they're lying and they're trying to make money off of the bubble anyway, so don't trust them.
They’re surely juicing the numbers that they show investors. It’s all about showing that they are still growing in some way or another. Nothing else matters to them. Much to the detriment of the users. I moved away from Google many many years ago. Have been moving away from Reddit over the past several months as well.
They just banned me for no reason
"FUCK" see? Still not banned on lemmy
You won't get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.
Thr really scary thing is what sick twisted fucks these so-called normies must be.
Banning you caused the stock to drop 9%? You must've had some prolific hot takes.
Did they actually get anything useful from Reddit given that 90% of the content posted there is just BS. Especially now since it will be mostly just recycling its own slop.
Good, I got banned for a stupid reason, they need some humble pie
I got banned for showing, quote, "extreme indifference" when Kissinger took a dirt nap 😅
That's hilarious.
I got banned for posting in r/Tesla. Snowflakes.
good username, but also props to you for the restraint in punishment.
The existence of extreme indifference suggests the existence of mild indifference, where you actually do care about the subject matter a tiny little bit, but insufficiently to get to the heights of mild interest.
Props to everybody here who helped to contribute to that drop just a teeny tiny little bit.
most of reddit is 50% bots anyways, reddit is cannabilizing itself to stay alive.
My personal shame is to still google “product” + Reddit every month if so. Nothing compares to Reddit’s comments on recommendations.
It's true, but the value is diminishing. I've tried that and more than once in the past half year, the advice within reddit posts were clearly astroturf AI-generated slop, and some of them were upvoted in similar amounts to apparent real recommendations.
Companies know Reddit is a recommendation hotspot, and stealth advertising is becoming typical business practice.
Still worthwhile for older posts. Limit responses to 3+ years old and they’re pretty good
The problem with that is that any product that was good three years ago is far from guaranteed to be good now. Everything is getting shittier and less consistent. Any given product run manufactured in a different factory than the last run if there's a lower bidder. I don't trust reviews older than like six months at this point.
yeah SEO people have caught on tons of fake reviews for products
These days the recommendation isn't real unless it's from a random youtuber who's testing 10 similar products in a 30 minute video and has spreadsheets.
has spreadsheets
That's a very important part
I've been giving bad advice. As a joke.
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I don't see why Google would renew. The current content is AI slop.
Or... why would they renew since they downloaded all the old "useful" content? (and the new content is useless)
It's like downloading a torrent, you may seed a bit, but you would never download it over and over again.
Have you seen Google's output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I'd say.
The only thing I use Google's AI for is to get text out of images. Which I'll give it credit for it does very well even with extremely blurry content
That was more or less the original comment back when they started. Bots were a thing on Reddit before of course but they really started getting out in hand around 2021 which was long before the deal.
And with them putting old Reddit behind a login, they’re just losing traffic.
They’re going to start getting really desperate to mine data and drive advertising dollars soon.
they just try to pretend like facebook, Fake engagement by significant amount of bots, which are likely going to be propaganda anyways. Also thier purges last year, probably was the final blow anyways, get rid of actual users, in favor of fake botting, propaganda, and spammers.
Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people
Fediverse needs that. There's just not enough people to attain the one cool thing about reddit, that was having a couple people create communities around basically any niche hobby you could think of.
Only very generic topics or ultra-popular stuff get some traction, and in many cases it's barely a blip.
A problem I've seen also is creating a niche community because you don't want to just get the general content, but since there's simple fewer users it's just dead. And when someone else thinks about switching to Lemmy, they see a bunch of dead communities and are like "oh this site is dead."
It's annoying but on a newer site(/federation of sites) those niche communities need to be conversations that start in a more generalized community that enough people want to branch it off into it's own thing. So there's already core users, so it's not DOA.
The wave has started. I just moved from there to here, after they enforced ID checks and require email or phone number.
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Is it regional or for VPN users or something? I still use old reddit when I need to from search results, and I don't get asked to log in.
It seems to be rolling out region by region I reckon. I'm in the south east Asia and I don't get asked to log in yet.
I get asked to login to old.reddit if I set my VPN to USA, but not for the European countries I've tested.
They're still a decent enough porn aggregator. Maybe they can get an AI deal out of that.
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