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Reddit is able to license its content in a way that prevents companies from using it while leaving the API free. In fact, making the API paid does nothing for

Reddit is able to license its content in a way that prevents companies from using it while leaving the API free. In fact, making the API paid does nothing for that goal. Scrapping has been long established as legal so if their license doesn’t change, nothing about LLMs using their content will either

pierat 3y ago
> Reddit is able to license its content in a way that prevents companies from using it while leaving the API free. And there's the scam laid bare. It's *NOT* Reddit's content. Sure, by posting you're granting them a whole slew of rights. But you dont transfer ownership to them. And when your content creators leave, blammo, you have no more new content. And I'm already seeing some subreddits drop dramatically in terms of comments and posts. Tech ones, naturally. Turns out Lemmy is actually pretty cool for a fediverse version of reddit. We're already seeing the start of death of Imgur as "reddit image host", oh wait "imgur social network", oh wait "no porn Imgur". We all know how this works out. Same game, just a bit ahead of reddit.