Meatwagon

Reddit wants to sell its user made content to AI companies to train on.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/as-search-traffic-dries-up-reddit-announces-its-shifting-to-a-logged-in-experience/

Though most of it is bots now so I don’t see that working out for them.

The common person is not tech literate enough for that.

On my end, I would love to do that but 1 ram is 10 billion dollars and I was a fool who didn’t upgrade to 32g when I could.

Yes. I’m chronically ill with a lot of issues. I’d go down to Maelstrom’s territory at night alone and wiggle seductively. “Oh no, please don’t force chrome on me Mr. Maelstrom guy.”

Realistically, I have ADHD so having a neural interface to make sure I didn’t forget shit would be so helpful. I wouldn’t trust most devices though. It’d have to be free of the possibility of being enshittified, so I’d only be comfortable with it if I controlled the software.

That streamer who cheated on his wife. First time I’ve heard about him but I keep seeing people talk about it.

Need for Speed 2.

Piefed through Connect on mobile. Voyager was throwing out of date errors since my phone is on a very old version of android.

I couldn’t either because I had undiagnosed ADHD.

Once I got the meds I was able to tolerate it. Try drinking coffee when you study to see if it helps.

Other than that I really limited my study time. I stopped for the day after two hours no matter what and kept it to one subject per day, and rewarded myself with something I wanted to do after.

I joined reddit in 2011 or 2012. Was quickly made a mod of a support subreddit for a medical condition I had. I filled up the sidebar with resources and posted every day trying to help people. Even sent money to people who couldn’t afford physical therapy.

I built up a mod team of wonderful people. We traveled to meet each other IRL a few times and even went to Washington D.C. together to advocate for more research funding for our condition.

We took over abandoned related subreddits and even created new ones where we saw a need.

All this to say I really put effort into bettering Reddit, building communities, and making it a cozy place with helpful resources.

The API shit happened. I never lost RiF because I just used the cracked versions of it, but what got me was how the Admins were threatening their mods. Up until this point the subreddit you built was yours. Entirely yours. You could do whatever you wanted on it because you’re the one who built it. Mods could run rampant and ban everyone and the admins wouldn’t do anything. It sucked when it happened to you, but that was the tradeoff of Reddit. At least your subreddit was yours. The admins that day showed that wasn’t true.

If the subreddit wasn’t yours then what was the point of doing all that effort? You were just an unpaid employee now.

I stepped back a bit but didn’t leave. My subreddit still needed me. I still had Rif working. But I stopped curating the sidebar and wiki.

Then Reddit allowed people to start hiding their post history and made decisions that caused my mod toolbox to stop working without replacing those tools natively on anything except their shitty app.

Without my tools I can’t moderate efficiently so I stopped. Without seeing post history I refused to rely to people. Bots destroyed a subreddit I enjoyed despite like 50 reports from me alone. So I stopped going on Reddit. Only one mod remains active of our subreddit and she’s on the verge of quitting too.

I’m focused on here, bluesky, and discord now. I still have to use Reddit for a niche gaming community but I just lurk now, and only go maybe once a week versus how I used to post 20 times a day.

Mine was pretty bland too. “Has 1 cat” and “reads fantasy”. I wanted to get insulted.

Reminds me of Antinorn and the Norn torture websites for the game Creatures. Lots of people were trying to get the guy to stop.

https://creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Tortured_Norns

As long as instance owners moderate, the trashy people will be forced too flock to instances that allow that type of behavior and then we can block those instances individually.

I left Reddit because of how the moderators got pissed on, not the community. I just never went to /r/popular and enjoyed my life. My mod tools were removed from me and I can’t be assed to get their shitty app. I’d rather put my time somewhere that I’m not being used for free labor while also being sold as a product.

We know all IT departments are primarily composed of furries, so it’s just a branch of number 1 really.

Our airfryer took about a week of daily use.

Cats can’t digest mice. That’s why they vomit it up.

Ask them why they have a bathroom door.

It has already happened to you in the period before you were born. It is the same experience.

It’s going to be like everything where where you will own nothing and be forced to pay a subscription.

Morning commuter subscription: $500 a month. Oh but wait, it’s demand based so $700 a month depending on your area.

All the non-bubble shaped cars have such shit visibility too to the point that cameras are necessary now.

That sounds horrible.

You very obviously used Gen AI to write this. People are here to interact with people, not bots. Otherwise we’d be on Reddit.