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Ive been on reddit for more than a decade. Kinda bittersweet, but its not the first time I have moved on from an internet site. I just cant support reddit and sucking up all my posts for AI purposes. Feels terrible and spammy. Ive been a reddit premium holder for many many years.

Anyways, what communities do you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, I doubt that any kind of wiping posts from reddit at this stage will help with this AI deal, before the deal was made, Reddit probably took a snapshot of the database, and is selling that.

Why would they risk user's sabotaging their big payday? Also, doing it this way makes it much easier to quantify the data they are selling since they are working with a static database dump and not a live database that keeps changing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The historical snapshot is not worth that much because it is already available for free, there are torrents etc. The deal is iirc an ongoing payment for access, which will be relevant because AI trained on old data is always going to be stuck in the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, I missed it was an ongoing payment, I thought it was a single payment for a db export, then it makes sense to erase comments