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> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads? How are you going to pay for it? Subscriptio
by cirenehc 7y ago
> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?
How are you going to pay for it? Subscription model doesn't work for search/social networks.
- echelon 7y agoAd-free Reddit would be sustainable if: - Comments are ephemeral, expiring after two weeks (no growing storage costs) - "Reddit Gold" helps to offset costs - Run Wikipedia-like donation drives yearly - Write everything in bare-metal Rust so that CPU is cheap. Likewise, make intelligent choices about schema and service design for scalability. - Don't continue to drive unnecessary feature work (that is usually just to drive ad engagement and growth).