Reddit to sunset RSS access because of AI bots

8 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by zacharycohn
(theverge.com)

10 Comments

philipthetenth

5 hours ago

Reddit is absolutely unusable, an ocean of dark patterns.

And that's not even taking into account having to interact with the average redditor.

eimrine

5 hours ago

Reddit has too much of censorship to be interesting.

s0ss

5 hours ago

I’ve sunset my personal use of reddit because of enshittification like this. I’m sick of these platforms.

rvz

5 hours ago

Your personal issue should be at AI being the reason for the "enshittification".

The bots are now more intelligent at scraping at it is affecting everyone and it is not just Reddit.

s0ss

5 hours ago

And yet it isn’t, my personal issue that it is. Reddit has been making itself worse in an attempt to make more money for a long time. I have no sympathy for a platform that trades user experience for money like this. Worth noting that it’s trivial to scrape reddit even without rss or an account.

philipthetenth

5 hours ago

Yeah, the enshittification predates ChatGPT's release by a few years

joshstrange

4 hours ago

The API lockdown was the last straw for me. When Apollo stopped working, I stopped using Reddit. Sure, it comes up in search results and I'll click through but it stopped being a place I "hung out".

add-sub-mul-div

3 hours ago

I'm not sure whether it's more concerning that bots are on Reddit or that people still are.

sokediemdiemdi

5 hours ago

“Because of AI bots”

Yeah. Right. As if. It’s just another excuse to make reddit an even worse place than it already is.