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It’s been a series of greed-motivated decisions that have made Reddit a worse experience for users over the last few years:

API changes that killed off third-party apps
Allowing AI training on its content
Hidden/curated profile nonsense (yes, I know it’s easily bypassed)
Limiting access to old.reddit
Removal of r/all
Age verification
Killing RSS feeds

Now requiring log-in to view all content and talks of paywalling some subreddits (put on hold, but I wouldn’t put it past them to bring it up again).

Despite Reddit being on the decline for a while now, I would browse without being logged in or through Redlib because there is still interesting and helpful information and niche communities to be found there. I recently noticed some subreddits were not appearing among search results on Redlib and not being able to access posts that appear on its Redlib’s front page either. I hope there will be a workaround.

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
is apparently what is causing the turmoil, basically google AI and openai stated referencing reddit less and less, resulted in the drop of traffic. so redditis forcing logins to make users “generate content”. compounded by the fact that lurkers are lurking because of the significant purges last year, it remove a large portion of the userbase(with multiple accounts), and forced many to become lurkers instead, i lurked for 1+years before revisiting a reddit account. reddit is apparently charging 60mil/year? for letting google have its data.

when most of the site is now AI generated bot posts, and propaganda bots, with very small amount of users, you will get slop. also another less common complaint, is the lack of text only posts(asking a niche question that is not from the large subs). reddit was doomed the moment they started purging accounts left and right from which are already on shakey ground.
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