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So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by nothercastle »

avadodin wrote: post #206
red-iron-pine wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "we do not want to keep supporting old.reddit" the second old.reddit goes is the second I stop using that site it's already very obviously chock full of slop and AI bullshit, with some subs having long unavoidable lists of "your post was removed because you did not verify" trails that imply that automated posters found a thread and went hard but add in privacy crushing bs -- no reason to be there anymore. Back to o…

Old–school forums never left, still inhabited by the few boomers and genXers who could figure out the Internets back in the day and aren't dead yet. The gamification of Reddit and the ephemeral nature of the main page along with subreddits with varying amounts of overlap contributed to more active interactions, though. Some of the volume was lower quality but not all. The boomer posts about his petunia breeding progr…

Forms are sadly dead. They cost a lot to operate and maintain security updates for so without a critical mass of users they are dead

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by whycome »

dlenski wrote: post #268
aucisson_masque wrote: post #191

I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. And the discussions quality on Reddit are abysmal, its filled with bots.

> I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. That's a bizarre and self-sabotaging path to take. Almost all LLMs get a substantial portion of their knowledge from Reddit. In order to evaluate the quality of those LLM responses, you'll have to click through to the Reddit threads and critically evaluate the quality of the underlying discussions. If you just bl…

It’s just crazy to think that Reddit and the massive volume of text it allowed to be created helped lead us here….

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by chillfox »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #191

I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. And the discussions quality on Reddit are abysmal, its filled with bots.

I cancelled my Reddit subscription when they killed third party clients and haven't really used the site since.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by whycome »

ksd482 wrote: post #225
aucisson_masque wrote: post #191

I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. And the discussions quality on Reddit are abysmal, its filled with bots.

The discussion quality is unbelievably shallow in most of the subreddits. Unless it's a niche and technical subreddit such as mathematical topics, bio science subtopic, the discussion is quite shallow and in some cases simply misinformed. For e.g., a recent question about "is this person racist?", everyone jumped on the bandwagon and said "yes!", "100%", "obviously" without citing any sources. They simply paraphrased…

Looking at the conversations tied to movie fandoms has been fascinating. People treat movie franchises like a religion.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by janalsncm »

It’s really hard to feel bad for these Web 2.0 platforms that made money off of free content and are now enshittifying on top of it.

I stopped using Reddit when they blocked 3rd party apps and forced people to use their first party ad-ridden and painful UX. Every time I go back I find some other annoying unilateral change like deleting r/all.

In any case, Reddit was so filled with politics and bots and low-effort drive-by comments that I don’t miss it too much.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by a2tech »

dlenski wrote: post #268
aucisson_masque wrote: post #191

I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. And the discussions quality on Reddit are abysmal, its filled with bots.

> I think at this point I'm ready to give up on Reddit, most of my questions are already answered by LLM. That's a bizarre and self-sabotaging path to take. Almost all LLMs get a substantial portion of their knowledge from Reddit. In order to evaluate the quality of those LLM responses, you'll have to click through to the Reddit threads and critically evaluate the quality of the underlying discussions. If you just bl…

I'm a moderator on a moderately popular and active subreddit, and I can assure you that there is an unreasonable amount of bot activity on reddit. They range from just spam (usually obvious) to bulk astroturfing. We try to stop what we can, but plenty gets through.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

unethical_ban wrote: post #259
ksd482 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The discussion quality is unbelievably shallow in most of the subreddits. Unless it's a niche and technical subreddit such as mathematical topics, bio science subtopic, the discussion is quite shallow and in some cases simply misinformed. For e.g., a recent question about "is this person racist?", everyone jumped on the bandwagon and said "yes!", "100%", "obviously" without citing any sources. They simply paraphrased…

The only subs of any value are the niche subs, hobby subs that show off creation, and city-sized geographical subs. Everything else is politics, trolling, ragebait or simple spam. So much spam.

Not sure why you'd expect anything except a list like to be of "any value".

It's like, say, talk.politics.theory back in the Usenet days. For a while it was fun, and then it wasn't. Too big, too wide .. it killed itself as a useful place to discuss/debate politics.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by sco1 »

This is sad. I've been using a few read-only lurking apps to browse reddit for a while now and unfortunately this change seems to have broken most of them.

I tried looking into how to do things the "correct" way nowadays and they seem to have completely changed their app platform since the last time I looked. They've completely locked out the old method for requesting API access in favor of whatever this Devvit thing is: https://developers.reddit.com/docs/

If you want just plain old data access you have to submit a help ticket, which as far as I can tell just goes completely ignored if it doesn't get rejected outright by some automation.

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