how many of us noped the fuck outa there when they tried to force their garbage app on us...? this will only hasten it's demise.

Fuck /u/spez

Reddit CEO: "What? We can't sell user data on our increasingly punitive and terrible site because the bots keep fucking up the models trained on that data? Hold my beer..."

If the massive waves of permabans they have been doing for anti-trumpers weren't enough, this should kill the website entirely.

Goodbye 99% of reddit users.

People who make bots will adapt to this more easily than human users will, obviously.

thank god, i need a kick in the ass to get off that poisonous slop

Dead internet theory becoming more true by the day. I mean, it was already true, now it's just more true.

I would tell folks on Reddit to come to the fediverse but I deleted all my reddit accounts.

never been happier to have been banned for no reason at all

*** Except Reddit and partner owned bots, which will then have no competition for your attention.

Reddit is a pay to play psyop network, nothing more, nothing less.

Reddit has had a big problem for a long time, and it has probably only gotten worse. I wouldn't know, because I, an actual human with an opinion, was permabanned in the post-Inauguration bloodbath.

So let the bots run wild, and finish destroying Reddit.

Unless it's THEIR AI bots, right?

I used to assume most of the bots belonged to Reddit. I still do, too.

humanity

Not the best choice of word.

I see the rationale, dead internet theory and all. The problem is that if this happened, I 100% believe Reddit would form a partnership with the US government or oil companies to put bots on their platform and spread misinformation.

Astroturfing is only allowed from premium accounts.

Where is the link so I can read about it

I want most people to switch to lemmy.

Ah yes, because bots absolutely haven't managed to fake/generate faces now have they...

Spez can eat my ass in hell if he thinks he's getting any more of my info.

Yeah...that's it...bots...you don't want to associate all the post history and behavioral data with a real live person and connect whatever data you can find on the open data market with the same real person, collating everything the internet knows about a person into a single profile, destroying anonymity completely, ushering in a new age of Internet censorship and repression and aiding the identification of target groups for political and commercial exploitation? Nah....you wouldn't want to do that, would you?

Bots will have verification down to the science, done and verified as humans certified... way before actual humans even manage to turn on their cameras.

It’s amazing seeing the horrible decisions made in the name of quarterly profits

Well no. Then it's only a matter of time before pranksters use your digital face for nefarious purposes.