[Steve Huffman] wrote:
As the internet becomes flooded with synthetic content, people are craving real human perspective. We are the antidote to an automated web. AI compresses the internet into summaries. Reddit delivers the opposite: deep discussions, passionate debates, and lived experiences. People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit.
It’s a sewer of bot slop and they’ve consistently added “features” to make the experience worse for humans. Reddit exists to sell ads, sell data, and facilitate pushing narratives for money. They determined this was more profitable than “deep discussions” years ago. Hilarious they were happy to sell their hoard of “lived experiences” to the LLM peddlers and now it’s eating them.
deep discussions to be found on reddit:
- i’m as left as they come but we should shoot every migrant. we should go to their countries and shoot them there, see how they like it.
- if a woman punches me, i’ll kill her
- I’m going to use slurs whether you like it or not, snowflake
Old reddit now requires an account to access, and that means I’m now 100% done with reddit. It was still good for the subreddits for niche PC games, which is all I was using it for since deleting my account years ago.
Such interesting timing of this drop and article to come out shortly after the gatewalled their content even more.
it doesn’t though
They’ve been slowly phasing forced login for old.reddit
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com/
It didn’t for me for a while either but it started prompting me yesterday.
longing for the two month period 14 years ago when reddit was good
hate to tell you this, but r/jailbait was like a top 10 visited subreddit at that time.
It’s legit a cosmic joke how the most sanctimonious voices you’ll ever hear will also speak fondly of times like this when reddit was “based”.
There’s a certain D-word that should have been our cudgel.
Yea any time someone waxes nostalgic for “how Reddit used to be” the fucking Kill Bill sirens go off in my head. Like exactly what part of old Reddit do you miss? Because I haven’t forgotten how many people got upset when the CSAM subreddit was banned
Kill Bill sirens
Quincy Jones’ Ironside theme are the origin of those sirens
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
people don’t want a summary of reddit, they want reddit.
Removes r/all so people can only see a highly moderated and sanitized version of the site
Oh, now we need real human perspective. Not back when they partnered with Google to help train their AI model.
“Is the search function that eliminates the need to actually visit our site while hiding that our site was the source actually bad for us?”
Google snickers: “Thank you for the data slop training - kind stranger.”
It is cool and good that the entire US tech sector is financialized in an entirely circular way, with a singular point of failure (unironic)
Also that such singular point of failure is being eroded day in day out.
The economy is just three people standing in a circle handing a check for $1 million back and forth saying they’ve doubled, what now trippled, wait now quadrupled profits.
I think it’s been handing around debt derivatives over and over.
Be a debt ridden company that makes no profit but somehow made the richest people on earth. Have to shove this $200 billion in debt somewhere. Find some random company and instantly make the founders billionaire with tons of shares propped up by debt. Rinse repeat until the dollar is completely worthless. Crash out on your super yacht and private island bunker.
Common spez L
Sorry, all I’m hearing is ‘Short RDDT while deploying thousands of bots to privately harass the accounts that seem the most organic.’
Qwen 3.6, don’t fail me now!
it was entirely their own choice to block all vpn from accessing it (and it got nearly total for me in last year). so nice to get search results and then have to manually (cause phone) plug mirror in the address cause billion dollar company can’t serve fucking website on vpn exit nodes, while volunteer mirrors can
END THE CONTRACT!!!
