reddit cant afford [the V3 captcha system] but google lets them use it in exchange for AI/datamining
Had no idea they used that. I edited all my comments to crap then deleted them around the time the admin monkied with the backend database, and stopped using old.reddit to browse once I found lemmy. I once went through the effort of making a temp account to comment on someone else's comment there because they had suggested trying something specifically dangerous and didn't seem to know about it. I doublechecked later and the comment I wrote was caught in some filter, likely the result of the account being too new. I can't imagine what garbage that site will be in the years to come.