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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 v
by 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 agoApollo 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 agoApollo is also a producer to Reddit, as a large portion of its users use the app and contribute data via it
- solarkraft 3y agoThat'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 agoSome of which are used to generate content, which other people consume. That's how web 2.0 works.