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

That’s the problem with changing social networks.

People goes where people are. So it takes some major scew up from the current networks. Or a newcomer that have some killer feature everybody will want / need.

And lemmy lacks that “killer feature”

Lemmy/Piefed/Etc has a killer feature (or maybe characteristic), but one that only a fraction of users find appealing. Being decentralized makes the network more resistant to many of the problems we see on Reddit and other networks, or at least, reduces their impact.