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The idea that it's anti-competitive to do with your platform what you want is in my mind silly. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from building a reddit

The idea that it's anti-competitive to do with your platform what you want is in my mind silly. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from building a reddit clone to compete against reddit besides your ability to attract their users. It comes off as extremely entitled to think that reddit should supply you with the data created by their platform to do what you want with it.

ohgodplsno 3y ago
Reddit didn't create data. I did, you did, random users did. Why did it happen on Reddit? Because Reddit, at least for a while, seemed like it was a relatively open place where data wouldn't be stuck and made inaccessible without an account. Reddit exists _despite_ Reddit's incompetent management and tech teams, not thanks to them.
- mdale 3y ago
  Eh. You can be more incompetent.
buildbot 3y ago
Um, the users create the data, and consume it. Reddit provides a "marketplace" for that, and sells your data in exchange. Now, they want to rent-seek from the very people making it possible to create and consume that content easily. And it IMO, is anti-competitive - they are intentionally killing all existing competitors, vs. improving their own offering.
- abletonlive 3y ago
  Apollo is not a competitor to reddit, it's a consumer of reddit. Those are very distinct things. It literally doesn't even exist without reddit. If I have a backyard and let you host a couple concerts in it free of charge and then next year I decide "hmm, I think I should be paid for those concerts you're hosting in my backyard" is that anti-competitive? Absolutely not.
  - primax 3y ago
    Apollo is also a producer to Reddit, as a large portion of its users use the app and contribute data via it
    - solarkraft 3y ago
      That's the funniest part about UGC companies treating their users like dirt.
    - abletonlive 3y ago
      > Apollo is also a producer to Reddit By consuming its apis.....
      - primax 3y ago
        Some of which are used to generate content, which other people consume. That's how web 2.0 works.

ohgodplsno 3y ago

Reddit didn't create data. I did, you did, random users did. Why did it happen on Reddit? Because Reddit, at least for a while, seemed like it was a relatively open place where data wouldn't be stuck and made inaccessible without an account. Reddit exists _despite_ Reddit's incompetent management and tech teams, not thanks to them.

mdale 3y ago
Eh. You can be more incompetent.

buildbot 3y ago

Um, the users create the data, and consume it. Reddit provides a "marketplace" for that, and sells your data in exchange. Now, they want to rent-seek from the very people making it possible to create and consume that content easily. And it IMO, is anti-competitive - they are intentionally killing all existing competitors, vs. improving their own offering.

abletonlive 3y ago
Apollo is not a competitor to reddit, it's a consumer of reddit. Those are very distinct things. It literally doesn't even exist without reddit. If I have a backyard and let you host a couple concerts in it free of charge and then next year I decide "hmm, I think I should be paid for those concerts you're hosting in my backyard" is that anti-competitive? Absolutely not.
- primax 3y ago
  Apollo is also a producer to Reddit, as a large portion of its users use the app and contribute data via it
  - solarkraft 3y ago
    That's the funniest part about UGC companies treating their users like dirt.
  - abletonlive 3y ago
    > Apollo is also a producer to Reddit By consuming its apis.....
    - primax 3y ago
      Some of which are used to generate content, which other people consume. That's how web 2.0 works.