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		fidotron on Dec 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by... There's more to this. If you see traffic that comes from reddit it inexplicably dropped off a lot (like over 30%) after the US election, even in totally unrelated areas. The preferences of HN in recent months have also changed in some hard to pinpoint way, but I suspect it is now gamed to a degree that is hard to fight due to all the tools for writing AI bots.

ForOldHack on Dec 23, 2024 [–]

Thus ends the professional enshitfication of redwhatit, and only the armatures are left. Best of luck monetizing that API.

uoaei on Dec 23, 2024 | [–]

Don't you see? The people paying for the API are running bots...

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