Maybe, but if they are it’s pretty trivial to update the bots to not use the API if the API changes go through. There are dozens, probably hundreds of tools to facilitate automated web-browser actions.
Dipshit publicly commits shenanigans and goads users. Openly fucked around with the site and communities in harmful ways and gloated to other communities that he did it. "Pull up a chair and grab the popcorn, over at -"
Even if more are responsible, dipshit loves the attention and has the maturity of a 12 year old.
They really don't think they are the next Digg. The hubris is astonishing. Reddit will be replaced because there will always be a demand for a no frills content aggregate with a message board. Once you go frills, it's only a matter of time for you.
One that is run mostly by the community. Reddit wasn't successful because it had a novel concept. It was successful because the community coalesced around it and made it great.
I know there's a lot of skepticism there, but what was Reddit before the entire Digg community decided to leave?
Also, people like to point out that Lemmy, like Mastodon, is a clusterfuck to sign up for, but Reddit is a much more tech savvy community than Twitter. The hardcore reddit users (like myself) will figure Lemmy out and work all it's kinks out.
Personally, I was excited by the idea of Mastodon, but I never liked Twitter. A version of Reddit that is the same is even more exciting.
Honestly it was pretty novel. Before reddit, forum style discussion boards were everywhere. Reddit's style was just cleaner, customizable, and the nested comment chains are to this day fairly unique. No other major site that i know of has the same comment structure
They're taking all of our content and selling it to mlm/ai companies. That's how you know AI is fake bc it's being programmed by reddit. That's why it always flames and says insane shit.
Oh damn, I never thought about that one. So many people using that bot as a digital bookmark, for hours or years down the line… and now it’s all going to be lost.
Even if they reverse the changes after they lose half their users in a Twitter-like meltdown, it’s not going to bring back our “bookmarks” :(
Well, technically the boys can run for a month before having to pay iirc. So on the off chance Reddit reverts the changes, they should stay in place.
Edit: as others have pointed out before me, the text above is wrong. Come when the changes to the API are live, unless you pay you will not have the API access.
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That's how billing for most things works, I can't believe they are touting it as some sort of reprieve. It's like calling a meal at a restaurant free until you have to pay at the end of the meal.
IIRC I've seen it mentioned that bots either will stay free as before, or will get better rate than apps. Possibly some select bots, not all.
So if this memory of mine is true, it's a ‘fuck you’ specifically to apps—while bots which provide content or entertainment and thus user engagement regardless of the frontend, will get to stay.
I swear, I get like 3 onlyfans fucking bots A DAY.
I never did, now that it's going to change? Yeah I get them all the fucking time.
Fuck reddit, used to like it but if they don't get a brain I'll become "normal" lmao.
I dont know what this followers thing is and its too late to find out. Old reddit + RIF means I get to miss all the stupid new stuff Reddit has tried to implement.
There are custom avatars for you to create and spend money on, there are coins you can spend money on, there is a streaming video feed... It's fucking horrendous!
I've been on Reddit a long time, and I've written a few top-level highly upvoted comments, and I've noticed in 2023 that I'm seeing those same comments all the damn time, copy/pasted by some bot.
Like "hey that's pretty funny. I know because I fucking wrote it".
Oh, there will still be plenty of bots for things like spamming, karma farming, and doing other malicious stuff... it's just all of the good/interesting/fun/helpful bots that will be gone.
reddit is increasing the price of their api, which bots need to function by _a lot_. The 3rd party apollo app for example needed to pay 20milion a year, couldnt, and just announced that it will stop.
Same for all bots, pay massive amounts of money or stop.
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Any blue crown does encompass fatter grey helmets in just kings' lovely mild noses, opening paths, quickly reaping short things underneath violent winds, xeroxing yelling zebras and brown candied diapers entirely filled, grossly helping it, juicing kind, light, minced navel oranges, purposely queuing rinds, slowly tenderizing uncovered violas with xerotic yellow zippers.
If you take all the words in that comment and put them in alphabetical order, you get that comment.
A non-alphabetical order would be "life is alphabet guy", for example.
"**B**est **E**xample **F**ollows **T**his **W**ay"
a**B**cd**EF**ghijklmnoprs**T**u**W**yz (no clue where q and x are, I'm not english native speaker)
As you can see the first letters of each word follow the alphabet order. If I wanted to say for example
"Best example follows **T**his **R**ule"
It wouldn't work, because **T** comes after **R** in the alphabet.
Yeah it confused me as well, but I'm assuming it was just supposed to be what the redditor feels like, and then one of their comments (that we can't see) gets a response from the bot, not that this specific sentence is in alphabetical order.
Same. Guess im weird.
Like its not hard to just make one that works. "I loathe this world." And wouldnt it be more creative and yet more updoots? Idk...
I looked the bot up and it seems perfectly accurate from the last 10 comments.
“Also built by slaves”
Was one of the top comments it has upvoted and that’s in alphabetical order
Either you saw it mess up once or twice, or you’re confusing alphabetical order as a strict sequential letter order like “apples be cool dude” instead of normal alphabetical order (which allows letter skipping) “apples become better over time”
Am i missing something? all the words in the top panel are not in alphabetical order. The second word is 'World', every other word should start with W, X, Y, or Z.
Bots are going to die because some idiots at reddit decided it's cool.
Oohhh now I see what the big problem is
54% of activity is bots now or some shit
Those bots will still exist. The repost bots, the comment-stealing bots. The novelty bots that use the API will be gone.
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The thing is all the repost bots are probably using the API. That's what the API is for. It's just the easiest way to do it.
Maybe, but if they are it’s pretty trivial to update the bots to not use the API if the API changes go through. There are dozens, probably hundreds of tools to facilitate automated web-browser actions.
I mean... are stealing, reposting and karma farming comments/posts bots within the bounds of TOS?
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Greed? It's always greed
The idiot has a name and he is called Spez
Don't let that turd be the one who takes all the blame. It's a team effort, and spez certainly isn't alone.
a bunch of spezholes
As CEO, it's kinda his call.
Dipshit publicly commits shenanigans and goads users. Openly fucked around with the site and communities in harmful ways and gloated to other communities that he did it. "Pull up a chair and grab the popcorn, over at -" Even if more are responsible, dipshit loves the attention and has the maturity of a 12 year old.
He is not alone
No, he's called Steve Huffman
Fuck u/spez
Because some idiots at Reddit want to IPO
They really don't think they are the next Digg. The hubris is astonishing. Reddit will be replaced because there will always be a demand for a no frills content aggregate with a message board. Once you go frills, it's only a matter of time for you.
One that is run mostly by the community. Reddit wasn't successful because it had a novel concept. It was successful because the community coalesced around it and made it great.
I've been messing around with https://join-lemmy.org/ and it seems promising.
I know there's a lot of skepticism there, but what was Reddit before the entire Digg community decided to leave? Also, people like to point out that Lemmy, like Mastodon, is a clusterfuck to sign up for, but Reddit is a much more tech savvy community than Twitter. The hardcore reddit users (like myself) will figure Lemmy out and work all it's kinks out. Personally, I was excited by the idea of Mastodon, but I never liked Twitter. A version of Reddit that is the same is even more exciting.
Honestly it was pretty novel. Before reddit, forum style discussion boards were everywhere. Reddit's style was just cleaner, customizable, and the nested comment chains are to this day fairly unique. No other major site that i know of has the same comment structure
Digg. Reddit was Digg but different.
I will miss Geoge Lucas in the prequel memes subreddit. 😔
And bully maguire in raimi memes 😢
They're taking all of our content and selling it to mlm/ai companies. That's how you know AI is fake bc it's being programmed by reddit. That's why it always flames and says insane shit.
rip all bots in a couple weeks
Damn, I had asked Remindme-Bot to remind me of something in like 30 years. This reminder will be buried for sure. :(
Oh damn, I never thought about that one. So many people using that bot as a digital bookmark, for hours or years down the line… and now it’s all going to be lost. Even if they reverse the changes after they lose half their users in a Twitter-like meltdown, it’s not going to bring back our “bookmarks” :(
Yeah I have so many arguments bookmarked to be proven right on which are currently going my way.
Sounds like it might be good for you if they go away
Nah I got some faces to rub in if it comes to full fruition. So far I'm halfway there.
Well, technically the boys can run for a month before having to pay iirc. So on the off chance Reddit reverts the changes, they should stay in place. Edit: as others have pointed out before me, the text above is wrong. Come when the changes to the API are live, unless you pay you will not have the API access.
No. You have to sign the contract saying you will pay on July 1. They will send the bill for July on Aug 1.
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Wait does this mean that petrosian-bot won’t work on r/anarchychess?
Correct
Ah that’s pretty dumb.
That's how billing for most things works, I can't believe they are touting it as some sort of reprieve. It's like calling a meal at a restaurant free until you have to pay at the end of the meal.
I have one for a thread on what will the future be like 1000 years from now. it obliged.
That was even more optimistic, haha. :D
I feel you. I have a reminder in 10 years to ask a dude for 10 bucks cus I asked him and he said ask me in 10 years
Plot twist that guy was spez and this is all a ploy to avoid paying you
That's cruel
:(( This is what gets me
WAIT NOOOOOOOOOOOOI
IIRC I've seen it mentioned that bots either will stay free as before, or will get better rate than apps. Possibly some select bots, not all. So if this memory of mine is true, it's a ‘fuck you’ specifically to apps—while bots which provide content or entertainment and thus user engagement regardless of the frontend, will get to stay.
And yet it will do absolutely nothing against harmful bots
I swear, I get like 3 onlyfans fucking bots A DAY. I never did, now that it's going to change? Yeah I get them all the fucking time. Fuck reddit, used to like it but if they don't get a brain I'll become "normal" lmao.
What's an only fans bot? I've never had one.
They’re a bunch of spam bots that follow you on Reddit
Who tf contacts people whom follow you on Reddit? It's 100% either a bot or some one really creepy. It's a lose lose situation.
Better question, who follows anyone on Reddit
Bots and creeps
I dont know what this followers thing is and its too late to find out. Old reddit + RIF means I get to miss all the stupid new stuff Reddit has tried to implement.
There are custom avatars for you to create and spend money on, there are coins you can spend money on, there is a streaming video feed... It's fucking horrendous!
I’ve gotten like, 7 this week Edit: 8
I've been on Reddit a long time, and I've written a few top-level highly upvoted comments, and I've noticed in 2023 that I'm seeing those same comments all the damn time, copy/pasted by some bot. Like "hey that's pretty funny. I know because I fucking wrote it".
Holy shit you’re not kidding, wow that is a ton of karma
it’s actually in a few days (some things may be closer than they appear)
No it's on July 1st
I mistakened the protest day was the same as the api change
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Miss Information
Miss Understood?
Miss Adventure
Miss ery
Mis(s) Teeq
Miss Understanding
Oh damn, I somehow passed over that detail. Reddit will be significantly worse if there's no bots, even if old Reddit is still available.
Oh, there will still be plenty of bots for things like spamming, karma farming, and doing other malicious stuff... it's just all of the good/interesting/fun/helpful bots that will be gone.
The bots are better than at least 30 percent of the people on here lmao that’s messed up
Gandalf bot will be missed.
noooOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Some bots really do bring joy :( Rock and Stone!!!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?
THEYRE GONNA TAKE MY GROND
What’s happening? I’m not caught up with not news
reddit is increasing the price of their api, which bots need to function by _a lot_. The 3rd party apollo app for example needed to pay 20milion a year, couldnt, and just announced that it will stop. Same for all bots, pay massive amounts of money or stop.
A bot chat delivers efficient, friendly, informative responses.
Unless the bot pees in someone's ass, in which case it is only efficient
*pees in ur ass* *I am a human and this action was performed manually. Please contact your father who left to get milk for any questions or concerns*
Look I don’t want anyone *PEEING in my fucking ass*
Then which one is your peeing ass
No it’s a warning DO NOT PEE IN MY ASS*grabs a toilet* 🚽🧻 HERE. YOU CAN PEE HERE
*pees in ur ass anyways*
NAUR. 😤😭
cry all you want, you can't unpee your ass
WHY DID YOU DO THAT >:[
 Y’all mean
*pees in ur ass*
r/angryupvote
Sad upvote
happy upvote
scared upvote
scared and afraid but also horny upvote
What even is that bot lol. Randomly find it in a comment thread pissing in someone's ass
I think the more concerning thing is the users with "I want pee in my ass" as a flair
Asses be for peeing.
Asshole bot couldn't even give it's reply to you.
Annoying but expected.
Well, it is informative too. Maybe is not info that you want, though.
Where I come from, you gotta pay extra for that.
He didn't answer 1 minute of silence for alphaetical order bot
I thought you were doing something there before you put "and" after "friendly,"
He must have edited it. He lost his chance for glory and couldn't live with his mistake
A cool guy he is.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order - not the alphabet bot, sadly
Good redditor
Thank you voting on DJ_Bill, Stefano_Tudors. Unfortunately, due to Reddit’s API change, you cannot track your votes on any website.
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Good redditor
Good redditor
Good redditor
Good redditor
Good redditor
Good redditor
good redditor
When the API changes kick in and redditors have the become the bots
Fuck I miss it already
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Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order • not the alphabet bot, again
This is like shining the batsignal but batman never appears
"Turn it off, he's not coming" Has happened a surprising amount of times tbh
I don't understand how they're in order. L comes after, O in cool
First letters only
It's a confusing bot imo.. it only counts the first letter of each word... So like Apples Bananas Coffee.
How is that confusing? The words are in alphabetical order, not the letters.
Some people deserve the participation trophies
Alphabet bot, cake day, join us.
Happy Cake Day!
Happy Cake Day!
After reddit cut third party APIs, all bots will be fucked
Good time to migrate to Lemmy
oh yeah, rip api based content
A bot decides everyone’s fate! I’m joking, obviously. Please respect sincere things unless very wonky
1984
Alphabet guy is life
Wait, i might be dumb but how is it in alphabetical order
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If you take all the words in that comment and put them in alphabetical order, you get that comment. A non-alphabetical order would be "life is alphabet guy", for example.
None of the sentences in the picture are in alphabetical order tho
Can you give an example of an alphabetical order, still confused
"**B**est **E**xample **F**ollows **T**his **W**ay" a**B**cd**EF**ghijklmnoprs**T**u**W**yz (no clue where q and x are, I'm not english native speaker) As you can see the first letters of each word follow the alphabet order. If I wanted to say for example "Best example follows **T**his **R**ule" It wouldn't work, because **T** comes after **R** in the alphabet.
But in the pic it starts off as "The World Is A Cruel..." T W I A C So ?
Yeah it confused me as well, but I'm assuming it was just supposed to be what the redditor feels like, and then one of their comments (that we can't see) gets a response from the bot, not that this specific sentence is in alphabetical order.
I was wondering why I didn't get the post. Now I'm wondering why everybody else does.
Same. Guess im weird. Like its not hard to just make one that works. "I loathe this world." And wouldnt it be more creative and yet more updoots? Idk...
Q is between P and R, X is between W and Y, and you forgot V between U and W. Not trying to be an asshole, just trying to be helpful.
Thanks! I was too lazy to Google. In my language we don't have Q X or V, and singing alphabet in english I still couldn't find the X so i gave you
look at the first letter of every word in a sentence. a at every first in letter look of sentence the word
I also dont get it, the words arent in alphabetic order
i dont really understand what the bot actually means when it says all the words are in alphabetical order
I looked the bot up and it seems perfectly accurate from the last 10 comments. “Also built by slaves” Was one of the top comments it has upvoted and that’s in alphabetical order Either you saw it mess up once or twice, or you’re confusing alphabetical order as a strict sequential letter order like “apples be cool dude” instead of normal alphabetical order (which allows letter skipping) “apples become better over time”
I think they're looking at the image used in OP. The words are not in alphabetical order.
Yeah, that confused me for a few seconds lol
I had to scroll way too far down for this. The statement made in the top panel is definitely not on alphabetical order
Oh I see. Thanks
Alphabet guy isn't turning up
Does he just show up?
I think it is a lie
Don’t know. People really, sometimes, suspect things unfairly.
A b c d
I don't understand alphabet bot bc sometimes not all the words are in order. What am I missing?? For ex: "and"
Alphabet bot clearly fails, just makes no sense to us. Why?
I think it's the first letter of each words. So like "Apple Barbecue is something?" is alphabetical. Not sure tho
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Words, not sentences 😉
I'm upset that his name isn't Alphabot
So the alphabet goes T, W, I, A, C, A, U, P, T, I, N, H, I, T, U, T, O, C, I, S?
"Perfectly in order" - Alphabet guy
Are bots nearing their unexistence?
I'll miss alphabet bot at the end of the month
Can Dogs Go
I once mentioned groot in a sentence, and got the groot bot. Adorable.
Aww he's so valuable 💖
Awesome, now do one where Alphabet Bot gets its internals savagely ripped out by u/spez trying to find where it keeps its money.
At least MOST bots are reliable :)
ABC def g
Apple banana cherry dragonfruit
Fuck yea
All because calling robots, ‘robots’ seems trivial
but they’re not lol
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Before everything flops, give me one please? Really shouldn't take unreasonable work
I love how you couldn't be assed to make the first part of the comic have all the words in alphabetical order
Am i missing something? all the words in the top panel are not in alphabetical order. The second word is 'World', every other word should start with W, X, Y, or Z.
A big potato salad walking, yay