It is clear that the signal to noise ratio of the WWW is getting worse. It’s much harder to find good content when using a good old search engine. And if it’s good it is usually hosted on Reddit or Stackexchange.

So remember, even if it’s easy too Google something (well, it isn’t nowadays), we want to create a fediverse of good content that helps people (I hope). So, it’s always better to write a real answer if you have the time and energy. Please help boost the SNR and reverse the AI fueled information degradation loop.

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    6 hours ago

    I did, bc reddit locked up my content, and wanted to use it to train a LLM.

    Let people ask again, here, in the fediverse.

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      4 hours ago

      That’s assuming we’re able to draw the people with answers here into the fediverse, in the long run.

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        3 hours ago

        What gets us there is long term stability.

        Grow organically, and they will come.

        First, the tech enthusiasts, then tech journos, then normal journos, then normals.

        It’s how online spaces grow.

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      6 hours ago

      (already had a feeling that someone will say this)

      I won’t delete my posts/comments because I want to be helpful, that’s it.

      But if I prefer deleting my posts/comments, I will archive it instead.

      I respect what r/ArtFundamentals did, and it should be an example: After reddit’s APIpocalypse, they don’t support reddit and decided to close the subreddit. But the advices from the subreddit wasn’t gone–in fact they actually archive it in their own website:

      https://drawabox.com/r/artfundamentals/

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      Reddit lost nothing when you deleted your comments, they still exist on their servers and are likely being used to train LLMs now. All that was lost was other peoples ability to readt them

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        3 hours ago

        And without my.comment, fewer hits because users cannot see it, which means less people provide training data.

        No single drop feels responsible for the flood.

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          Sure thats correct, but I’m a little uneasy with the idea of “burn down a useful resource for people becuase fewer people helped people results in slower increases of data to Reddit”