That's true but they probably didn't account for AI data scrapers ramfucking your server so they could steal all the value you assembled for general consumption and serve it themselves for profit.

Its amazing to me how consistently the shitty behaviours of these billionaire techbro oligarchs impact disabled or marginalised people... even when the point isnt to directly shit on them. Its fucking vile.

I honestly think many (too many, but certainly not all! I am one) programmers are some of the immoral, ethically spurious people around in the 21st century.

Hmffh, anti-copyright. After all, every view is a copy to your machine. Just information being free.

Semantic web was a separate initiative by Tim Berners-Lee when the web already used un-semantic HTML. And it never went anywhere.

I'll admit I'm having trouble moving from yt to peertube :/ and still use the old gmail accounts

Meanwhile, I use -site:reddit.com more and more.
We are not the same. ;)

100% bot ridden. However site:reddit.com is used for the types of questions where otherwise, you just get page after page of SEO sites, which are even wose.

wrong film

Second reality on your left, past the one where Santa Clause rules the world

Hey, those are real human made bots. Not shitty ai generated bots.

Or that site:url doesn't return results it used too anymore.

if you are a bot

Or they’re bouncing banned people.

I think they're more upset AI companies scraped 'em and they didn't get paid.

I agree with you. But what's important is if they can sell anything. They destroyed their own product but they're still pretending it has value, and maybe they can fool some investors into paying for script and AI slop.

They are in the business of attracting new users into their new algorithmic engagement hellhole now. Show any propensity of interest, and you will get sidetracked to the most godawful side-communities that seem to have emerged to engage as many victims as possible. They do not want to focus on their old users as anything less than the content they already made that makes reddit show up as free advertisement to their new base in search engines. It's all a game of "it's the algorithm's fault so you can't blame us" now.

While I agree, More celebs than ever have been asking for comments and ideas on their reddit pages.

if you use the reddit enhanced suite extension you can get redirected

working for me

I'm not forgetting or forgiving that shit either.

Could you share what you did to achieve this? I've been planning on doing just that, and have it auto-update every week or so (keeping the previous versions archived, of course) by using kiwix-serve for a static '.zim' file and maybe a cron job for the auto-update. But if you have a better solution, I'd love to know. The deployment I am planning is kind of convoluted to be honest.

I am currently pretty tapped out on all storage and backup drives but if I had space this post would have motivated me. Just sayin

Yeah, I did that about 20 months ago (wonder why?) and the problem is, there it sits but I forget where on my LAN I stored it, how to access it - I suppose, were I absolutely desperate, I could launch a several hours research project and find it, maybe even figure out how to access (I believe I stored README with it about how to do all that), but... why? And, even worse, one why? might be to see how articles have drifted over time, which I guarantee they have and continue to do, Wikipedia is actually quite fluid, but does knowing how current articles compare to the ones you archived in 2024 do anything of greater value for you than the negative value of being pissed off at how the world is lying to itself (same as it ever has...)?

How do you do that?

It works through Tor, by the way. I had the same experience can't look at it but I can through Tor. They even have a .onion.

seems like Old reddit is account-walled as of today maybe

tag users […] it's super weird seeing people from one country pretending to be from another one.

I see issues.

Implementation A: automatic by IP)

• they moved
• they use a VPN

Implementation B: field in profile settings)

• can write whatever the fuck they want
• can probably change it

The site is most hostile to visitors who aren't logged in, and the users who comment probably mainly visit the site while logged in.

Inertia, just like Facebook.

a corpse of a platform

You're just now realizing it?

My cousins say they cannot find any discourse communities for their hobbies outside Reddit. I would respect the decision more if they only stuck to those subreddits but they don't.

typo, it's spelled "read it!"

That's just an excuse by reddit. Moving to the new style allows them to choke down and control the way that posts and replies are displayed and nested. This is good for them, because it allows them to offer white glove PR services to paying customers. It also obfuscates useful user supplied content so that it can be sold wholesale to anyone who has the money to buy it. That's more important to them than offering a good user experience and useful website to the proles.

Anyone still posting on reddit (who isn't a bot) is working for free for an unscrupulous company.

Only because the bots were already set up to do it that way. It's quicker to use what exists when it works.

It's unsafe for their profits.

They could use a WAF to block AI scrapers, and both Cap and Shieldstral together to block most AI posters but they won't bother.

One would need more than 1 account...