The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next

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The end of Reddit? Here’s why subreddits are still down – and what happens next
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I'm making my transition a somewhat gradual one. I'll still be on Reddit, in the more esoteric subs, though I feel dirty every time I go there. As all the cool kids migrate over, I'll spend less time there and more time here.

As long as you only use on a browser with adblock, and don't actively support their changes, it isn't letting them win. Spez is trying to built a wall around his garden of extremely useful information, go nab some tomatoes while they're not yet rotten.

Reddit wins as long as actual people are posting and commenting. Selling advertising is just a stopgap; the goal is to sell peoples behavior patterns and current trends in communicating about information. He sees the cash cow as being a legitimate AI training corpus to sell subscriptions to.

Of course, this will fail as soon as people deploy chatbots using those same models across the redditverse.