• @lennybird
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    1023 days ago

    The great API revamping really fucked reddit up. Their admins were incompetent, and then the purge of moderators who protested the API change brought even worse mods into the fold.

    The loss of RiF, the loss of Push Shift for both archival searching and tracking trolls was such a loss.

    • @5oap10116OP
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      122 days ago

      Every other comment is a corporate shill pushing a product…“promoted content” AKA ads…ai troll bots…at least Lemmy is now big enough to get some help/insight on relatively obscure/complex topics now.

  • @warbond
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    523 days ago

    I never deleted my shit, but I’m not sure that would have done anything anyway.

    • @5oap10116OP
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      22 days ago

      Everyone that deletes their account and/or deletes all their comments/posts gives them lower numbers and less content for Google AI to scrape. It’s marginal but it’s real