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‘Nothing is changing’: Reddit flatly denies report that it might wall off its content - The Verge

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“Nothing is changing”: Reddit flatly denies report that it might wall off its content

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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.
- 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.
  
  “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
- 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
Well, they've never lied before.... wait
- Spez, the guy who lied at every change, is not lying this time.
Nothing is changing.
Something is definitely changing.
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?
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.
Next reddit migration incoming!
- Ugh, another September
  
  Interesting, I didn't know about that
Great I wasn't thinking about it before but now I think that they WILL do this lol
Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge, clarifying that the company’s earlier “nothing is changing” comment only applied to logins.
Glad to hear it; Spez and Reddit have been so trustworthy about prior changes, I have no reason to doubt them for this.
_{Doubt: HEAVILY}
- Whatever do you mean? Spez is completely honest and upstanding! /s
So glad I downloaded, overwrote, and then deleted all my content before I switched to the Fediverse
Nothing is changing
That's the same thing they told us regarding 3rd party apps. And it's the reason why many of us are here.

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