Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      40·
      2 months ago

      When the internet was new I thought that the spread of knowleege would raise up people’s awareness of things they had not been exposed to under the false assumption that the vast majority of people where reasonable, but uninformed.

      Nope, I was wrong. At best a slight majority are reasonable with varying levels of ignorance and the rest are willfully ignorant.

      • Crismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        In the early years, I learned a lot of new things. The late 90’s had so much hope for the web and learning new things. I remember falling I to rabbit holes a lot more often back then because it wasn’t about video essays and persuasive videos.

        I miss all of those old text based chatting and the friends I made on Yahoo local chat rooms. Somedays I wish the social media sites run by algorithms didn’t surpass those old forums and chat rooms.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        43·
        2 months ago

        Internet is just a new form of mass media to control the minds of people who aren’t paying attention

        EDIT; Christ, I shouldn’t have had to say this, but obviously not the only thing. I just mean for mass media manipulation its no different than radio or movies. The usage of radio and the distribution of film is still a good thing when done positively. I shouldn’t have to spell shit all the way out like this

    • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I don’t remember when it was starting out but I do remember the forums of the 00s as well as the overall online culture of the time. The fediverse is the closest I’ve gotten to feeling that again but obviously nothing will ever feel like that again because I’m an adult and all the sense of wonder is gone from the online world for me.

      At least here, we’re not on a platform owned by corporations.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Remember when you had RSS with HUNDREDS of different websites and had your own personal little newspaper every day 🥲

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I just started hearing about some Facebook at some point, and then some (it’s Russia) Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte and a few other spaces.

      These seemed to be the sites which lamers use to feel themselves relevant with that Internet thing. Leprosoria of the Web. Places where I wouldn’t go, even if I would sometimes go to porn sites, especially when depressed.

      Normal people would use LiveJournal and move from ICQ to XMPP and Skype. Skype voice calls (back then they were better with countryside radio link than now with GPON) were a miracle, so me and everybody around me moved to Skype.

      Then there was a moment when the Web suddenly died and everyone was on those social networks.

      I actually blame LJ and Skype. Technically these worked fine, but they were a gateway drug.

      LJ made it easy to have something like a personal webpage, only it wasn’t personal, it was in LJ. ICQ lost popularity when it fought alternative clients, there were no alternative clients for Skype at all and everybody got used to service providers dictating how people should use their service, imposing their client software.

      It’s still terrifying how that ICQ run was the last such run in modern Internet’s history. A company fucked around and found out. Nothing like that has happened since. That’s my canary.