Reddit to sunset RSS access because of AI bots(www.theverge.com)
8 pointsby zacharycohn6 hours ago6 comments
  • philipthetenth6 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.

  • eimrine6 hours ago
    Reddit has too much of censorship to be interesting.
  • s0ss6 hours ago
    I’ve sunset my personal use of reddit because of enshittification like this. I’m sick of these platforms.
    • rvz6 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.

      • s0ss6 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.
        • philipthetenth6 hours ago
          Yeah, the enshittification predates ChatGPT's release by a few years
          • joshstrange5 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".
  • sokediemdiemdi6 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.

  • add-sub-mul-div4 hours ago
    I'm not sure whether it's more concerning that bots are on Reddit or that people still are.