Dilution will kill Reddit. Wait until the AI scraping gets into a feedback loop with AI posting.

Oh no. Anyway…

Good on the developers/maintainers. Why develop a moderation tool without payment for a platform that considers you a leech?

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.”

- Reddit

Musk gutted Twitter, firing people all around and it took the site a few months to break. It may take a while, but Reddit will crap itself.

Yar, there be a shitstorm a brewin’ on the horizon. With a flood of bots, not only is the content quality going to drop further on Reddit, but we’ll see more disinformation, phishing attempts, and other crap of the same ilk too. This is how big sites die off, not all at once, but in waves.

This may be the most significant result of the API debacle. Without proper tools to stop bots, the site will quickly become a nearly unusable cesspool. This is the kind of thing that will actually affect users in the long run. When site usability degrades, people will have even more reasons to jump ship.

I’ve been waiting for reddit to realize how much of a mess they’ve caused because it seems like they just think they can “ignore it and it’ll go away” kinda deal. I wouldn’t want them to have more spam and such but it gets to a point where something has to break…

Musk gutted Twitter, firing people all around and it took the site a few months to break. It may take a while, but Reddit will crap itself.

This may ultimately be the most impactful event so far in the Reddit API debacle. Without filtering bots, Reddit will quickly devolve into unusable garbage.