Reddit to sunset RSS access because of AI bots

philipthetenth 2 hours ago |

Reddit is absolutely unusable, an ocean of dark patterns.

And that's not even taking into account having to interact with the average redditor.

eimrine 2 hours ago |

Reddit has too much of censorship to be interesting.

s0ss 2 hours ago |

I’ve sunset my personal use of reddit because of enshittification like this. I’m sick of these platforms.

rvz 2 hours ago | |

Your personal issue should be at AI being the reason for the "enshittification".

The bots are now more intelligent at scraping at it is affecting everyone and it is not just Reddit.

s0ss 1 hour ago | | |

And yet it isn’t, my personal issue that it is. Reddit has been making itself worse in an attempt to make more money for a long time. I have no sympathy for a platform that trades user experience for money like this. Worth noting that it’s trivial to scrape reddit even without rss or an account.

philipthetenth 1 hour ago | | |

Yeah, the enshittification predates ChatGPT's release by a few years

joshstrange 1 hour ago | | |

The API lockdown was the last straw for me. When Apollo stopped working, I stopped using Reddit. Sure, it comes up in search results and I'll click through but it stopped being a place I "hung out".

sokediemdiemdi 1 hour ago |

“Because of AI bots”

Yeah. Right. As if. It’s just another excuse to make reddit an even worse place than it already is.

ChrisArchitect 1 hour ago |

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912499