Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Reddit never gave a shit about bots. To them it’s something that pumps up their active users numbers to woo their investors. They’re only doing this so they can force people to view their ads that are designed to look like posts.

Who goes on Reddit nowadays anyway?

I still go on reddit often since that’s where most of the game communities I want to hear from are.

Same, Lenny isn’t mature enough to have some of the very niche communities yet

I think what there users who mostly post and users that mostly comment (I belong to the later). Lemmy could try to bootstrap some of those communities (note: to not make it to specific) by just reposting the same posts that are posted in Reddit and see if that could increase activity.