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

I know we all collectively hate Reddit here - no sarcasm on my end -, but I hate to think what it’s gonna be like 10 years from now.

The sheer amount of good information I’ve obtained from Reddit over these last 15 years: mental, physical health, nutrition, tech, jobs… all for free, as it should be! It’s insane when you think about it.

Imagining a world where I’ll have to get charged to search every little thing, and yet get biased information due to ads and marketing… All of this sucks so much.

How are you guys gonna cope with this? What do you intend to do in the future I mean.

Never forget what made sites like Reddit popular in the first place. That can always be rebuilt. Reddit can die without it meaning we have to give up what Reddit was.

The information will still be there as long as they don’t remove entire posts by users who have deleted their user names and keep an archive going.

Someone should be making a reddit archive site. Like an exact read-only clone to retain all the information people have access to before they remove it all to accommodate Ai on their servers.

It’s useless if you can’t access it without an account, though, and they’re banning accounts left, right and centre over the stupidest reasons.