• Tiger Jerusalem
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    9 months ago

    Reddit is a trove of user built content under the guise of community. What Spez did was to say “thanks for all the free work, suckers!”, put a price sticker on it, and laughed all the way to the bank.

    And this is why I’m not active on any Internet community anymore. Nevermind, I guess I just can’t help myself…

      • Tiger Jerusalem
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        79 months ago

        Active as in “creating meaningful contributions and contributing to the overall knowledge base”. I still shit post from time to time.

        • pewter
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          69 months ago

          This is going to be a really weird thing to argue, but I just casually read through a bunch of your comments and they seem like meaningful contributions.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Somebody asked chat GPT to appear to be a normal internet user to populate the comments section to manufacture content for normal Internet users to respond to so that they can continue building up their training models.

    • @[email protected]
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      239 months ago

      And that is another unintended example of why all of my post history was purged before migration.

      • Scratch
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        119 months ago

        What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

          Some 4chan users created a backup bot that auto saves every few hours, so if reddit didn’t do it already, 4chan has been doing it for a while. The bot was originally made for 4chan but repurposed for other websites, reddit included.

        • @[email protected]
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          59 months ago

          Yeah, it’s all too late. Shit, PRISM was 2007, so there’s a copy of everything somewhere. Obviously different ends.

        • RBG
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          19 months ago

          Depends. If they were smart they backed up every content that had a certain number of upvotes and/or a certain number of paragraphs and/or responses. Just to weed out all the 2-3 word comments that no one interacted with. If OP wrote mostly those then Reddit gives a shit about them deleting those.

    • RedFox
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      39 months ago

      Don’t cheat yourself just because there are douches that take advantage…