Reddit has struck a $60m deal with Google that lets the search giant train AI models on its posts
fortune.com
Its a bit old, but I just learned it via the retro-dodo article here: https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
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Can someone point me the way of that bot or whatever that changes all your old Reddit posts before deleting them? I thought I had it saved somewhere but I can't find it now and have no idea what it's called.
They keep copies of posts because people who mass edited their posts saw them reverted or have people reply still as if they were not edited.
Plus they can easily just detect mass edits, and ship the state prior to that event.
I had read that with some people, is was a delay from their server instance between read/write and in the end the changes did end up sticking, but I don't know if that was true. A lot of people were mass editing at the same time, and since editing isn't something that happens super frequently, it might have less priority in the stack and caused backups.
They change it on their website but the data that's collected and sold isn't changed.
It still devalues their google search though but also makes it harder to scrap data for free and ups the value of what they are selling.
For sure. They definitely have change records for everything. It would be borderline negligent if they didn't.
https://shreddit.com/ ?