Very likely. A lot of US states, Australia and France have introduced such laws.

In just one night, I had lost a lot of the communities I interacted with over the years. Besides, you might hate Reddit (and rightfully so) but atm its too mainstream and widely used, and there sadly isnt a better alternative for a platform where you can access forums for any sort of niche topics, ask questions etc… Many of these are not available elsewhere, not even here.

If it’s any consolation, sites like Geocities, Slashdot, Digg, Tumblr, Twitter and Myspace were once mainstream. Reddit will fall, especially if Spez continues to drive that place down the shitter.

Tell that to the families of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good.

Dailymotion does it too.

I forgot Dailymotion existed. Clicked on there, it’s just news sites and games journalists on the front page now. You can’t see view counts or any comments, and the site honestly feels like a husk of its former self.

I was barely able to remember the name of Google’s gen AI. It’s not really relevant in the corporate world. I don’t think they are close to whooping OpenAI and Microsoft’s asses.

Veo 3. It released weeks before and is almost up there with Sora 2 for output quality.

As for Microsoft, Copilot is absolute dogshit, whilst the quality of Windows 11 updates have nosedived to the point where Satya Nadella’s claim that the corporation is producing 30% AI generated code may actually be true, based on how much things have broken.

It’s gonna take a whole lot more than manifesting and positive affirmations to unfuck this reality.

On one hand, I’m so glad to be British and not living under Trump’s jurisdiction.

But on the other hand, I don’t think I’m gonna be visiting the USA anytime soon, unless I feel like being detained by ICE or turned away at the border for being critical of the orange man and the Gestapo he’s empowered.

Google are still a major player because they hold monopolies in several markets. I see them as “too big to fail.”

No other platform does long form user-generated video content like YouTube. The only other smartphone, tablet and smart watch OS that even holds a candle to Android is a walled garden exclusive to the Apple ecosystem. Even in search they hold a near-total monopoly with around 85 - 95% of all search traffic going through them (depending on which source you ask and if they consider ChatGPT a search engine.) Even Microsoft offering gift card rewards for using Bing search wasn’t enough to convince people to try them.

Even in markets where they don’t have a monopoly… GMail is the most popular free email service, Fiber has silently grown to have service in 19 US states despite significant pushback and lobbying from rival internet service providers, they’re the only viable alternative to Microsoft in the office productivity software market, virtually every major web browser except for Firefox is built on Chromium, even Waymo is the only (non-Chinese) robotaxi service currently in operation although that market is potentially going to blow up.

Even in the generative AI market they’re not only whooping OpenAI’s and Microsoft’s asses, but can reliably hedge their bets on AI if the bubble does start burst.

Not quite perma’d but I did get banned from a default sub recently over a banal comment that some power tripping cuck power mod didn’t like and saw as ban-worthy. Not even gonna bother appealing it because I know in true Reddit fashion they’ll respond with a “fuck you” and 28 day modmail mute, then cwy hawassment to the admins if I try to push it any further.

Maybe this is a sign that Reddit truly is turning to shit.

At this rate midterms are gonna be as Fair and Balanced™ as a Fox News bulletin.

Their revenues seem absurdly high, given how little online advertising actually pays. I think a lot of it is probably them selling data to AI companies. Hopefully the AI bubble bursting takes Reddit down with it.

I literally got perma banned from r/technology a few hours ago, presumably for a comment I posted over the weekend where I vented about online dating apps and how they’re making people turn to sycophant AI chatbots for love. Apparently pointing out how sky high women’s standards are on apps is bigotry and that’s unacceptable. My 15+ years of participating on that subreddit didn’t matter, nor did the fact that I didn’t use any misogynistic terminology, didn’t type any slurs, didn’t promote any incel/MGTOW/red pill rhetoric and didn’t throw out any personal insults. Some asshole Reddit mod didn’t like my comment and now I’m gone.

This could’ve been a comment removal and warning. Instead they took the nuclear route.

Not even gonna bother appealing it as I know these assholes are just gonna tell me to fuck off, mod mail mute me for 28 days then cwy hawassment to the admins if I push the issue any further. Literally unsubscribed from the subreddit and muted it, much like I did with r/Worldnews when they banned me for criticizing Saudi Arabia and their treatment of women.

Fully agree with your comment. Lemmy’s cooler. I feel like I can speak my mind on here without having to worry about overzealous internet janitors or having to mince my words to avoid shadow bans.

Eww, Voat and Ruqqus.

Spez is a spineless cuck.

Because Spez is Elon Musk’s little bitch.

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Of course Steve Cuckman would be the first to try and cover this up.

To be honest, this is actually a genius move when it comes to NSFW content.

Almost every pornographic sub has already been astroturfed by e-girls plugging their OnlyFans and Fansly links. Giving them the ability to paywall their content directly on Reddit effectively cuts out the middle-man and allows Reddit to undercut the likes of OF and Fansly with lower transaction fees.

I’m referring specifically to the uncut ISIL execution videos that used to be all over r/watchpeopledie years ago.

I’m not even remotely surprised. Anybody who has been following the history of Reddit will know that their senior management are spineless and will change their stance at a whim when it either hurts their public image or it no longer becomes viable from a business perspective.

We’re forgetting that this is the same site that allowed jailbait, creepshots, racial hatred, right wing propaganda, rampant misogyny, gore videos, terrorist propaganda (if anyone remembers ISIL) and other disgusting content to proliferate until various scandals forced their hand. Spez in particular is a massive snake that will throw people under the bus and lie through his teeth if it benefits him.

But then again, with a government as volatile as this, maybe you don’t want to piss of Trump or Musk…

They’ve also been pressured by the mods of /r/canada to suppress this news.