Lemmy welcomes you, new ex-redditors.
Thank you, kind stranger!
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So that means Lemmy is more accessible to search engines, right?
And AI scrapers and bots.
I wonder if all the political shilling is in hopes of future AI learning from it and being biased in the intended way.
I’m sure they’ve convinced the board and the shareholders that this is some kind of big win. But I don’t think it’s going to be impressive for very long.
There’s only so much value an AI can learn from reddit bullshit like “1. break off all contact 2. hit the gym 3. profit” and “the narwhal bacons at midnight” and endless boring pun threads.
Short term profit is all they care about until this platform crashes down completely
It sounds a lot like this quote from Andrej Karpathy :
Turns out that LLMs learn a lot better and faster from educational content as well. This is partly because the average Common Crawl article (internet pages) is not of very high value and distracts the training, packing in too much irrelevant information. The average webpage on the internet is so random and terrible it’s not even clear how prior LLMs learn anything at all.
So it will end in a downward spiral because it starts learning from AI articles, from which articles are being written, from which the AI learns, from which articles are being written …
As long as there’s supervision during training, which there always will be, this isn’t really a problem. This just shows how bad it can get if you just train on generated stuff.
which there always will be
How? We just learned that they train on social media.
They don’t train on random social media posts. Everything is sorted and approved.
Well it learned to put glue on pizza, eat rocks, and smoke while pregnant.
You forgot jumping off the Golden Gate bridge
How to kill even more traffic to Reddit
Something something net neutrality?
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search termIt still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.
And I switched engine, so that it’s not polluted with Reddit garbage anymore, especially since there’s so much AI spam there now.
Antimonopoly enforcement when?
never, of course
It’s happening with Amazon now.
Wheels are in motion on anti-monopoly, but it’s a major societal shift and that takes time. Time and not electing billionaires to public office. A democracy isn’t going to build up momentum to do anything about the unchecked power of billionaires if around half the population is voting for billionaires.
Spez adores Musk and wants to follow his footsteps
Why do I still see Reddit results on DDG? Is that just old stuff and new stuff won’t be indexed?
404 notes that Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and Qwant are all affected, with results either not showing anything recent, or not showing the full site result. Kagi, a paid search engine, is apparently still showing data, but only because it buys some of its search index from Google, which continues to have access to Reddit data through the aforementioned deal.
Anything after 2nd of July is not accessible, entries before that date are fine.
Asking for a friend…
What would it take to create a domain that just acts as a proxy to Reddit but serves up its own robots.txt that allows all bots?
Probably a LOT of proxy IPs to act as different “Users” so you can overcome the rate limit that I expect they would be using to enforce such a deal
