I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one.
Its early days, but I would like to have a discussion here about it since my post was blocked on reddit(of course).
Let me know what you think of the project, if you have any input, let me know.
felbane@lemmy.world 4 months ago
API access was only half the problem. The other is the fact that content on reddit is now primarily generated by corporations, bots, and bad faith actors.
Going there for specific threads (e.g. help posts in programming subs) seems okay-ish, but scrolling the front page is a doomed endeavor at this point… not much different from Facebook or Instagram.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Out of curiosity, I flipped through a few days back, and it’s exactly that. Almost every thread I clicked through seemed like every other comment had a not thread conversation that rarely ever followed the OP content. So it’s just a bunch of AI chatbota talking to each other about nothing. That didn’t take long.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about fish.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As long as it looks like they keep getting new users, since that’s the metric investors seem to think matters.
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 4 months ago
Gotta agree with this. Reddit is a shadow of what it once was.
dogsnest@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can digg what you mean.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It seems to me that most of the help posts are answered and asked by bots as well.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Top answer:
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I’m not sure this is a change. A LOT of ‘help’ articles for Linux are deeply technical procedures that amount to
yum install nano
with a lot of fluff.umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Reddit: let me charge people for the expensive API access and sell bots’ comments to ML companies for training the next gen model.
Ironic
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s wild how true that is. Wilder still that it seems only veteran redditors even notice it.
I wonder how much of the engagement is authentic vs. farmed or not. So much old content is being dug up and presented as fresh or OC.