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I’ve never seen Reddit the company as valuable. People are valuable, and they just happen to gather on Reddit. If Reddit goes away they will gather somewhere el

• Rebelgecko 3y ago
  What makes reddit valuable are 1. The communities 2. The data that the communities havegenerated in the past It seems like reddit is trying to monetize #2 to the point of alienating #1. It's bizarre how large the disconnect is between Reddit the corporation and Reddit the collection of communities
  • sebzim4500 3y ago
    Isn't #2 freely available for anyone to scrape? And even if they shut down access now, presumably everyone training LLMs already has a mostly complete dump of reddit comments/links.
    • fsflover 3y ago
      Yes, but actually scrapping it is a hard work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254485.
• chrischen 3y ago
  What would be funny is if as a result of this everyone moved back to Digg (where the Reddit users initially came from).
  • Kye 3y ago
    There's no Digg-that-was to move back to. Digg in 2023 is only connected to old Digg by a $500k check and domain transfer. They eventually added comments, but it seems sparse. edit: apparently an ad company bought it in 2018. Doesn't seem to have affected the quality of links.