Technology

59651 readers

2643 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by hotpot8toe@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

192 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I just started hearing about some Facebook at some point, and then some (it's Russia) Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte and a few other spaces.

These seemed to be the sites which lamers use to feel themselves relevant with that Internet thing. Leprosoria of the Web. Places where I wouldn't go, even if I would sometimes go to porn sites, especially when depressed.

Normal people would use LiveJournal and move from ICQ to XMPP and Skype. Skype voice calls (back then they were better with countryside radio link than now with GPON) were a miracle, so me and everybody around me moved to Skype.

Then there was a moment when the Web suddenly died and everyone was on those social networks.

I actually blame LJ and Skype. Technically these worked fine, but they were a gateway drug.

LJ made it easy to have something like a personal webpage, only it wasn't personal, it was in LJ. ICQ lost popularity when it fought alternative clients, there were no alternative clients for Skype at all and everybody got used to service providers dictating how people should use their service, imposing their client software.

It's still terrifying how that ICQ run was the last such run in modern Internet's history. A company fucked around and found out. Nothing like that has happened since. That's my canary.