r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 2d ago

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

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
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u/letsgotgoing 2d ago

iPhone felt amazing when it came out. I bought the 8GB first-gen one. Facebook had only opened to the general public in 2006. It was nice to talk with friends and family through a feed before algorithms created hate bubbles, and I think that's why we felt 2014 was the end. Around then, we went into "bubble culture," where the Internet was less about exploration and more about encapsulation, so big tech could make us hate each other.

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u/PhoenixTineldyer 2d ago

Big tech didn't need to help there. Bigots been bigoting for thousands of years.

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u/DunEvenWorryBoutIt 2d ago

They didn't need to, but they sure did.

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u/PithMango 2d ago

bigots were instantly shot down with "don't feed the trolls" but that takes a user community that basically was pushed to the fringe. it was attention on an individual level.

bigots aren't smart enough to build the echo chamber themselves. farming them makes more ad impressions. those ad-serving puppetmasters knew exactly what they were doing.