The only engagement you actually get is on super-niche subreddits. Other than that, the “engagement” you get on reddit is largely indistinguishable from bot traffic.
The difference is that Lemmy admins across the fediverse aren’t making the user experience worse so they can sell the data to corporations for LLM training
Secondly, I think it’s more important what they did to achieve this goal, locking down the API behind a paywall was their way of creating value in their data. They knew then that it would be too expensive for independent developers to pay for but didn’t care. They knew the money would be coming AI data brokers.
Shit move from Reddit. Glad I jumped ship to lemmy.
Honestly, lemmy has less users compared to Reddit, yet you still get more engagement.
The only engagement you actually get is on super-niche subreddits. Other than that, the “engagement” you get on reddit is largely indistinguishable from bot traffic.
I come to Lemmy to read threads of people arguing about whether or not they’re talking to each other at all. This is doing it for me.
💍 Will you marry me?
Can you pass a capcha?
Are you implying I can’t pick out bridges or motorcycles? I definitely can, but I won’t do it for you as some kind of sick parlor trick.
Speaking of tricks, did you know there are singles in your area!
Sexy singles- In my area? Are there any weird tricks they don’t want me to know? Just one would probably work.
They can make entire hot dogs disappear! Crazy, right?
One bite at a time, you sickos. Omg, you pervs.
…didn’t have to be the mouth. I’m still impressed.
Your stipud ! (both sic and /s btw) -> there, now you don’t have to go back to Reddit to recall the nostalgia, you are … welcome, I guess?:-D
Ahhh, that’s the stuff. 🤤 Do it again.
Your (sic) WRONG!
About EVRRTYHIGN! (sic)
I may know nothing myself, but I still have an opinion and will share it with you, consent be damned!
Why I… [Reddit cap exceeded, please deposit $10 to continue conversation].
👆this
(Did that do it?)
You just engaged.
Or admitted to being a bot.
This isn’t Reddit though.
I feel like that comment was edited to be less ambiguous.
I added “on reddit” when I saw people were misunderstanding me.
If gollum and Steve Buscemi had a secret baby
You are glad that you jumped to where AI companies can get the information for free, but are mad at Reddit for getting paid for it.
I can’t make any sense of this.
The difference is that Lemmy admins across the fediverse aren’t making the user experience worse so they can sell the data to corporations for LLM training
So it’s really that the user experience is getting worse. Feeding ai has nothing to do with it.
I’d rather have AI companies have my data for free than reddshit gettong paid for it
First of all, tacos are friends, not food…
Secondly, I think it’s more important what they did to achieve this goal, locking down the API behind a paywall was their way of creating value in their data. They knew then that it would be too expensive for independent developers to pay for but didn’t care. They knew the money would be coming AI data brokers.
It’s like the difference between volunteering and being forced to do community service.
In neither case are you forced to do anything so this doesn’t make any sense either.