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Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by alex1138 »

VCFundedGenYer wrote: post #162
Klonoar wrote: post #63

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Reddit has almost 20 years of comments. You could certainly argue that it's less true now that there's legitimate people commenting, but there are years old threads on there with very helpful and valuable information that you can only really find via some incantations of Google search.

Reddit HAD almost 20 years of comments, until about three years ago when they started to lock down APIs, remove moderators, and make poor choices. Users reacted accordingly and now you will just see a whole lot of [deleted] or comment content replaced with garbage data. It's no longer an archive or wealth of information it once was.

[This comment removed due to protest of Reddit's API changes]

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by dredmorbius »

Reddit's been dead to me for years.

It's ... deader now.

I'd noticed this change myself a few days ago, suspected something was up.

(Occasionally visit for information that's not readily available elsewhere. Log in only to pull content from my now-private subs, perhaps a few times/year.)

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by calvinmorrison »

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

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> "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…

the big click of reddit like yahoo forums and other earlier things is that each 'sub' reddit can have its own rules culture, etc. its like facebook groups in a way. Unfortunately with how bad reddit is, I see mostly my interest niche hobbies moving to facebook.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by qwerpy »

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 agree with them. In many of the subs I used to frequent, the outrage is high and the signal is low. LLM really is the best way to consume the content there. Retrieve the new posts of the day/week, filter out the outrage and politics and low-effort Reddit in-jokes/copypasta, then summarize the various comment threads. My time is too valuable to sift through the utterly mind-numbing nonsense to get the occasional new piece of info. If you want to dig deeper, ask the LLM to dig in. Or have it regurgitate verbatim a pre-filtered selection of comments.

Reddit is a good source of new happenings and discussions, but I’m willing to spend some tech company’s compute to clean it up for me. For example, I often want to branch out from a particular musical artist. Reddit has many good recommendations. LLM is perfectly capable of gathering these.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by dredmorbius »

walrus01 wrote: post #54
felooboolooomba wrote: post #13

Meta has spent $2B on verification lobbying. Very successfully it seems. In 1-2 years, you won't be able to browse the internet without scanning a body part and providing a ID for your ass. https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-beh...

(13 years ago) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/632877-halo-4/66477630

TIL the phrase's origin.

("Please drink a verification can.")

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by dredmorbius »

mothballed wrote: post #100
account42 wrote: post #74

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Have you ever looked at an old reddit comment thread. + Hey how do you do thing? | -+ [deleted] | -+ Thanks, that's just what I needed.

Reddit will delete anything remotely controversial if it contains referenced facts. They banned and deleted my account for simply stating the 5th amendment prohibits requiring incriminating yourself to exercise a right. An Ivy League educated lawyer dug up the comment one year after I posted it, told reddit I was distributing illegal legal advice, and had my whole account nuked.

Reddit users also very frequently delete accounts and/or content.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by davkan »

Klonoar wrote: post #63
account42 wrote: post #28

I noticed they logged me out when I happened on a link recently. I don't think this change will make me log back in. The value of the site has already crashed, now the only question is which site will manage to capture the mainstream link/image discussion next. > This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans. This hasn't been true fo…

Reddit has almost 20 years of comments. You could certainly argue that it's less true now that there's legitimate people commenting, but there are years old threads on there with very helpful and valuable information that you can only really find via some incantations of Google search.

The rest of the internet is so enshittified by SEO garbage that searching for a problem you’re having and appending reddit is the only way to get a quick answer without scrolling for 5 pages down an article.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by api »

qwerpy wrote: post #269
unethical_ban wrote: post #259

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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 even the city-sized ones. My local ones (Seattle when I lived there, and Orange County ones now) are political cesspools full of intolerant people and outrage bait.

“Pajama Nazis vs Basement Bolsheviks.”

Forget where I saw that one but it’s Reddit now.

Re: So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe

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Post by PearlRiver »

ksd482 wrote: post #231
markdown wrote: post #228

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> I used to enjoy reddit back in 2011-2013 when it was all about silly memes and jokes. Reddit is as it's always been. You just got older and don't get the current silly memes and jokes.

I never said anything about not getting the current memes and jokes. I was alluding to the current mix of the content on reddit. It has gotten more political and less entertaining if you look at the default feed whether you create an account or browse anonymously. And in any political or open ended discussion, unless it is scientific, the discussions are shallow. I will however concede that non-scientific/technical d…

The world has gotten more political. Everything is going to shit and we have not even really started the climate change.
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