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Pika ,
@Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

then don’t block it \0/ they’ll get in anyway and all they are doing is harming their user base with all the restrictions. I unblocked reddit for the hell of it the other day and it looks like I don’t need to block it anymore, they think my home network is a VPN so they did me a favor and did the footwork for me.

aquinteros ,

fuck spez little piggy greedy soy boy

Steve ,

Fuck U/spez

nobleshift ,
@nobleshift@lemmy.world avatar

Down voted for post about that other site

mightyfoolish ,

I stopped appending reddit to my search terms. I won’t go back to Google search; especially after the GamersNexus video featuring Wendell from Level1 Techs.

fishos ,
@fishos@lemmy.world avatar

If this gains any traction, I hope every news site, blog, etc sues Reddit for profiting off their material that fills the entire site. The comment section wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t something to comment on in the first place. Digg and Reddit didn’t even have comments at first. It was ALL content from other sources. Even “reddit original content” is" original content from a creator posted to Reddit". Reddits “value” is ephemeral.

Makeitstop ,

Just what we need, more walled gardens and exclusivity deals. And of course, another way of monetizing your data, because we don’t have enough of that already.

Search results are already fucked enough as it is. We don’t need to start carving up the internet and and dividing it among different search engines.

Zak ,
@Zak@lemmy.world avatar

On one hand, that’s a shitty, greedy move from Reddit. All of the data, and value is provided by the users.

On the other hand, Microsoft does want to feed it into OpenAI and present it on a Bing search engine result page rather than sending the visitor to Reddit where they might join a community (or view an ad or ten).

ryper ,

The article says OpenAI made a deal with Reddit, so blocking Microsoft isn’t going to keep Reddit’s data from getting fed to OpenAI

cmnybo ,

They are just trying to leech out as much money as possible before the go the way of Digg.

melroy ,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

We shouldn't accept this behavior or other companies will follow!

db2 ,

Reddit CEO can shove reddit up his ass sideways. The whole thing.

Imgonnatrythis ,

He can put his dick in /dontputyourdickinthat

Aside: I give Lemmy serious props for not reproducing some of these communities btw.

lvxferre ,

To commemorate Steve “Greedy Pigboy” Huffman’s assertiveness, I’ve made some memes. Enjoy.

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/ee754247-6b08-4d1c-8f7d-af189090d65c.png

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/e93df809-ff56-4200-a018-d826086c9106.png

Evotech ,

Reddit only exists because of an open net and sharing content, noe they just suddenly determined that an open net is bad.

A common strategy, but it fucking sucks.

Fuck you reddit.

piefedderatedd ,

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/3dc531d4-b5f3-4b45-9c1f-8390698bdba4.jpeg

tux0r , (edited )
@tux0r@feddit.org avatar

… who, ironically, co-founded reddit and wrote its first second version.

db2 ,

Probably got turned in by Steve too.

tux0r ,
@tux0r@feddit.org avatar

Reddit says web clients have visited their public, free website without permission.

Fixed.

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